Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3036 (1950)

Peace Memorial Church
Chicago, IL

Images

2008-12-15 - Organ; photo from Wicks promotional materials (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
57 stops
28 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2013-08-27 - Updated through online information from Scott Crowell. -- Church built new facility in Palos Park, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) in late 1970's, which contains a 3-manual, 49-rank Berghaus organ. -Database Manager

2008-09-07 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Source: Wicks brochure -Database Manager

2011-05-21 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-11-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> May 1951 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Chicago, Illinois
       Peace Memorial Evangelical & Reformed Church

       Wicks   Op. 3036   1951   3/29
       ____________________________________________________

       GREAT                           CHOIR
   16' Open Diapason     12        16' Contra Dulciana   73
    8' 1st Open Diapason 73         8' Geigen Principal  73
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 73         8' Viola da Gamba    GT
    8' Claribel Flute    73         8' Concert Flute     73
    8' Viola da Gamba    73         8' Gemshorn          GT
    8' Gemshorn          73         8' Dulciana          12
    8' Concert Flute     CH         8' Unda Maris        61
    8' Dulciana          CH         4' Traverse Flute    12  
    4' Octave            73         4' Dulcet            12
    4' Flute             CH     2 2/3' Dulciana 12th     --
2 2/3' Twelfth           61 *       2' Dulciana 15th     --
    2' Fifteenth         61 *       8' French Horn       73
  III  Mixture           61 *       8' Clarinet          73
    8' Trumpet           73            Tremolo
       Sub                             Sub
       Unison Off                      Unison Off
       Super                           Super
       Chimes            21            Chimes            GT

       SWELL                           PEDAL
   16' Libelich Gedeckt  73        16' Dbl Open Diapason 32
    8' Open Diapason     73        16' 2nd Open Diapason GT
    8' Stopped Flute     12        16' Sub Bass          32
    8' Viole d'Orchestre 73        16' Violone           12
    8' Salicional        73        16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
    8' Voix Celeste      61        16' Contra Dulciana   CH
    4' Violin            73    10 2/3' Quint              7
    4' Flute d'Amour     12         8' Octave            12
2 2/3' Nazard            --         8' Bass Flute         5
    2' Piccolo           --         8' Cello             CH
    8' Cornopean         73         8' Flauto Dolce      SW
    8' Oboe              73         4' Super Octave      12
    8' Vox Humana        61        16' Trombone          12 GT
    4' Clarion           73         8' Trumpet           GT
       Tremolo
       Sub
       Unison Off
       Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  May 20, 2011]