Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 5175 (1973)

Eastern Illinois University: Dvorak Concert Hall
Charleston, IL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

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: Movable Console
3 manuals
34 stops
35 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-12-20 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Information from a Wicks brochure. -Database Manager

2014-12-07 - Not installed until Spring 1973 due to construction delays (ground stability) in completing the building. -Database Manager

2021-10-24 - Leading up to the renovation of Dvorak Concert Hall in 2008, attempts were made to sell the instrument. With no buyers, the console was sold. The Organ case and pipework remained in place, with the new copper shell built in front, enclosing it. Observations in 2021 noted crushed pipework from being stepped on, as well as some pipes bowed over from metal fatigue. The blower is present, but disconnected. -Rafi Singer

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console,1977 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Charleston, Illinois
Eastern Illinois University

Wicks Organ Co.   Opus 5175   1971

Positiv:
    8 Gedackt           61 pipes
    4 Prinzipal         61 pipes
    4 Koppelflöte       61 pipes
    2 Oktav             61 pipes
1 1/3 Nasat             61 pipes
  1/2 Scharf IV        244 pipes
    8 Krummhorn         61 pipes

Great:
    8 Prinzipal         61 pipes
    8 Rohrflöte         61 pipes
    4 Oktav             61 pipes
    4 Spitzflöte        61 pipes
    2 Flachflöte        61 pipes
1 1/3 Mixtur IV        244 pipes
    8 Trompete          61 pipes

Swell:
    8 Gedacktflöte      61 pipes
    8 Salizional        61 pipes
    8 Vox Coeletis      54 pipes
    4 Geigen Principal  61 pipes
    4 Nachthorn         61 pipes
2 2/3 Nasat             61 pipes
    2 Waldflöte         61 pipes
1 3/5 Terz (TC)         49 pipes
    1 Kleinmixtur IV   244 pipes
   16 Fagott            61 pipes
    8 Schalmei          61 pipes
      Tremulant

Pedal:
   16 Prinzipal         32 pipes
   16 Subbass           32 pipes
    8 Oktav             32 pipes
    8 Pommer            32 pipes
    4 Choralbass        32 pipes
    4 Rohrpfeife        32 pipes
    2 Mixtur IV        128 pipes
   16 Posaune           32 pipes
   16 Fagott (Swell)
    4 Rohrschalmei      32 pipes


[Received from Rick Erickson 2012-11-15.]