Better Pipe Organ Database

Schlicker Organ Co. (1964)

Keuka College: Norton Chapel
Keuka Park, NY

Images

ca. 1968 - Chapel interior with organ in front (Photograph from an archival source: Postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2022-07-11 - Organ pipes in front (Photograph from an archival source: Keuka Lake Music Festival Facebook page: video still capture, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Chapel interior with organ in front (Photograph from an archival source: Fine Art America, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
38 stops
54 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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 combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1986. The organ was given as a gift to the College by Mrs. George Shipman Jephson of Cazenovia, as a memorial to her aunt, Evangeline Decker. The organ was dedicated April 25, 1965 with a special recital by David Craighead, head of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. -Database Manager

2013-06-06 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ and choir loft are in a front gallery above and behind the chancel. -Database Manager

2016-03-16 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. <br>The organ is installed high in this modern A-frame chapel designed by Vincent Kling and Associates of Philadelphia. David Craighead played the dedication concert April 25, 1965. Further input is needed to determine if and when the two prepared-for stops were installed. -Database Manager

2016-11-09 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from personal files of Scot Huntington Date not recorded

Keuka Park, New York
Arthur H. Norton Chapel, Keuka College

Schlicker Organ Co. 1964-1965

Compasses: 61-note manuals, 32-note pedal
Low wind pressure, essentially nick-free voicing;
   principal ranks of tin, zinc basses, Giesecke reeds
Choir-Master console.
All ranks are full compass and independent except as indicated.

       GREAT
16'    Pommer                      61  [metal]
8'     Principal                   61  [facade basses]
8'     Spillfloete                 61
4'     Octave                      61
4'     Hohlfloete  [prepared for]  --
2'     Octave                      61
IV-VI  Mixture                    330
8'     Trumpet                     61


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Rohrfloete                  61
8'     Salicional                  61
8'     Voix Celeste          (tc)  49
4'     Gemshorn                    61
2-2/3' Nasat                       61
2'     Waldfloete                  61
1-3/5' Terz                  (tc)  49
III-IV Mixture                    232
16'    Fagott                      61
8'     Schalmei                    61
4'     Clarion                     24  [ext. of 16']
       Tremolo

16' Swell 
4'  Swell


       POSITIV
8'     Gedeckt                     61  [wood]
4'     Rohrfloete                  61
2'     Principal                   61
1-1/3' Larigot                     61
1'     Siffloete                   61
III-IV Scharff                    225
8'     Krummhorn                   61  [copper]
       Tremolo


       PEDAL
16'    Subbass                     32  [wood]
16'    Pommer             [Great]  --
8'     Principal                   32  [facade basses]  
8'     Pommer        [ext. Great]  --
4'     Choralbass                  32
4'     Pommer        [ext. Great]  --
2'     Nachthorn                   32
III    Mixture                     96
16'    Posaune                     32
16'    Fagott             [Swell]  --
8'     Trumpet         [ext. 16']  12
4'     Clarion            [Swell]  --


       INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Positiv to Pedal

Swell to Great 16' 
Swell to Great
Swell to Great 4'
Positiv to Great 16'
Positiv to Great

Swell to Positiv
Swell to Positiv 4'


       COMBINATIONS & REVERSIBLES
Sforzando toe stud with indicator bulb
G.C. piston and toe stud (General Cancel)
Hold and set combination action:
   divisional pistons; generals are duplicated by toe studs


       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Balanced Swell pedal
Balanced Crescendo pedal with indicator bulb


Wind indicator bulb                   


[Received from Scot Huntington 2016-02-25.]