Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3572 (1962)

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
1139 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, LA

Images

2008-04-19 - Church Exterior (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Cases (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

2008-04-19 - Console (Photograph by John G. DeMajo/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
15 stops
32 registers
3 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2011-02-21 - Identified through online information from Chad Boorsma -- Regular masses are no longer held in the building. The facility is used for weddings and funerals only. The former members of the church are now part of St. Patrick's Parish. -Database Manager

2015-04-21 - Updated through online information from Robert Zanca. -- Date on nameplate is 1962 -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console 04/18/15 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

New Orleans, Louisiana 
St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church

Wicks Opus 3572 (1962)

PEDAL
16’     Diapason (a) 
16’     Bourdon (b)
16’     Lieblich Gedeckt (c)
8’      Octave (a)
8’      Bass Flute (b)
8’      Dolce Flute (c)
4’      Choral Bass (d)
4’      Flute (b)
16’     Contra Trompette (e)
8’      Trompette (e)
4’      Clarion (e)
8’      Great to Pedal
4’      Great to Pedal
8’      Swell to Pedal
4’      Swell to Pedal

SWELL
16’     Gedeckt (c)
8’      Principal
8’      Stopped Flute (c)
8’      Salicional (f)
8’      Voix Celeste
4’      Principal 
4’      Harmonic Flute (g)
4’      Violina (f)
2-2/3’  Nazard (g)
2’      Flautino (g)
8’      Trompette (e)
8’      Oboe
4’      Clarion (e)
        Tremulant
16’     Swell to Sell
        Swell Unison Off
4’      Swell to Swell

GREAT
8’      Diapason (a)
8’      Melodia (h)
8’      Dolcan
8’      Dolcan Celeste
4’      Flute (h)
4’      Octave (d)
2-2/3’  Twelfth
2’      Fifteenth
        Tremulant
16’     Great to Great
        Great Unison Off
4’      Great to Great
16’     Swell to Great
8’      Swell to Great
4’      Swell to Great      


 [Received from Robert Zanca 2015-04-20.]