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Schlicker Organ Co. (1953)

Residence: E.Power Biggs: Living Room
Cambridge, MA

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

Images

1953 - "Cambridge Portativ" Schlicker Organ (Photograph by AGO Organ Library at Boston University: Barbra Owen?, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
10 stops
28 registers
3 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: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: Freie Kombinationen
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2012-01-05 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- While built for the Biggs home, this organ traveled with E. Power Biggs to many venues around the United States. Sometime after the 1956 AGO Convention in New York City (where it also made an appearance), the organ was sold, rebuilt by Schlicker with one 12-pipe extension and one rank added, and moved to a private residence in California. It was replaced in the Biggs home by the John Challis 2-manual and pedal harpsichord. -Database Manager

2021-02-17 - From NYC organ page: On Thursday, June 28, 1956, organist E. Power Biggs and an instrumental ensemble presented a program of Sweelinck, Soler, Handel and Mozart in the Hunter College Auditorium. Mr. Biggs played his traveling organ, dubbed "The Cambridge Portativ," that was built by the Schlicker Organ Company in 1953. This organ was later refurbished by Schlicker — who added an 8' Principal (12 pipes) and 1-3/5' Terz (45 pipes) — and sold to a private individual for his California residence. -John Roper

Stoplist

Barbara Owen: E. Power Biggs: Concert Organist (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), p.215 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Residence: E. Power Biggs (“The Cambridge Portative”)

Schlicker Organ Co., 1953


GREAT                 POSITIV                  PEDAL

8     Gedeckt         8     Gedeckt            16    Untersatz 
8     Quintadena      8     Quintadena         8     Gross Gedeckt
4     Octave          4     Rohrfloete         8     Gedeckt
4     Rohrfloete      2     Rohrfloete         4     Octave
2 2/3 Nasat           2     Quintadena         4     Bourdon
2     Principal       1 1/3 Larigot            4     Quintadena
2     Rohrfloete      1     Siffloete          2     Rohrfloete 
      Mixture II-III        Cymbal II          1 1/3 Nasat
8     Krummhorn                                      Mixture II
                                               16    Ranket
                                               8     Krummhorn

All stops are taken from the following ranks:

  16     Untersatz (44 pipes)
   8     Gedeckt (61 pipes)
   8     Quintadena (73 pipes)
   4     Octave (61 pipes)
   4     Rohrfloete (73 pipes)
   2 2/3 Nasat (61 pipes)
         Mixture II-III (171 pipes)
         Cymbal II (24 pipes)
  16     Ranket (32 pipes)
   8     Krummhorn (61 pipes)

Entire Organ: Pistons 1-2-0
 [Received from Edmond Johnson 2016-10-05.]

Documents

Schlicker Organs Journal advertisement, with photographs -Database Manager

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