Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. (1982)

First Christian Church: Sanctuary
1106 State Street
Bowling Green, KY

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

Images

2019-06-18 - Wicks console (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-05-15 - Chancel and Great Pipe Display (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

c. 2010 - Console and pipework (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2010 - Building Exterior (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2010 - Room (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2010 - Console detail (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2010 - View of the nave from the chancel (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
12 stops
23 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-25 - Identified through on-line information from Will Dunklin -- Installed 1982. -Database Manager

2015-05-30 - The Swell division is in the right chamber, while the left chamber is empty (information received from Will Dunklin). -Database Manager

2015-06-01 - Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- This organ includes some pipework from the church's previous Wicks organ, but all new chests were built in 1982. -Database Manager

2019-07-12 - Updated by William Dunklin, who has heard or played the organ. May 2019 the Wicks was parted out to make way for a larger rebuilt instrument to be installed by B. Rule & Company June / July 2019. A handful of ranks from the Wicks swell were retained for use in the new instrument. The rest of the Wicks was sent to the landfill. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of photographbystein.com Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Bowling Green, Kentucky
     First Christian Church

     Wicks   Op. 5889   1981   2/13
     _______________________________________________________

     GREAT                 SWELL                  PEDAL

  8' Principal          8' Gedeckt            16' Bourdon
  8' Rohr Flute         8' Dulciana            8' Principal
  8' Salicional         8' Aeoline             8' Gedeckt
  4' Octave             4' Geigen Principal    4' Choralbass
  4' Spill Flute        4' Hohl Flute         16' Trompette
  2' Block Flute    2 2/3' Nazard
 II  Mixture            2' Piccolo
  8' Trompette          8' Trompette
     Sub                8' Oboe
     Unison Off         4' Trompette
     Super                 Tremolo
                           Sub
                           Unison Off
                           Super

          [Received from Jeff Scofield December 5, 2014]

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