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Wicks Organ Co. (1953)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
100 N. Pleasant St.
Independence, MO

Images

1995-06-21 - Truman Room (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-21 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-21 - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-21 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1995-06-21 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
25 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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 crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-05-12 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- This was a rebuild and enlargement of the existing 1900/1923 Kilgen, retaining the Kilgen console; restored by Wicks in 1993. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June 21, 1995. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Independence, Missouri
       First Presbyterian Church

       Kilgen   1900
       Kilgen   1923   Rebuild and electrification
       Wicks    1953   Rebuild
       Wicks    1993   Restoration
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT                           SWELL
    8' Diapason                    16' Bourdon
    8' Gamba                        8' Diapason
    8' Melodia                      8' Stopped Diapason 12
    8' Dulciana                     8' Salicional
    4' Octave                       8' Vox Celeste
    4' Harmonic Flute               8' Aelene [sic]
2 2/3' Twelfth                      4' Prestant
    2' Fifteenth                    4' Flute d'Amour    12
       Sub                          4' Violina          12
       Unison Off                   2' Flautino         12
       Super                      III  Cornet
       Chimes                       8' Trompette
                                    8' Oboe
       PEDAL                           Tremolo
   16' Diapason                        Sub
   16' Bourdon                         Unison Off
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW             Super
    8' Cello            GT             Blank
    8' Bass Flute       12
    4' Koppel Flute     12             CHOIR
   16' Trompette        12 SW       8' Viola
    8' Trompette        SW          8' Concert Flute
    4' Trompette        SW          8' Cor de Nuit
       Glockenstern                 8' Unda Maris
                                    4' Zart Flute
                                       Tremolo
                                       Sub
                                       Unison Off
                                       Super

    About the Truman Room photo:  Bess Wallace and her 
    family attended the church and her Sunday School
    class met in that room.  One day a young man named
    Harry S. Truman visited the church with his family
    and he sat in on Bess's Sunday School class. He and
    Bess hit it off and eventually married.  

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield November 25, 2012]

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