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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 2187 (1940)

Church of the Ascension
3717 Philadelphia Pike
Claymont, DE

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
21 stops
7 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2012-02-29 - Identified through online information from Russell Meyer. -Database Manager

2012-03-02 - Updated through online information from Russell Meyer. -Database Manager

2021-07-02 - Replaced a 1918 Haskell organ. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Reconstructed stoplist from organbuilder Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Claymont, Delaware
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION (Episcopal) 

GREAT ORGAN (enclosed)
    8' Open Diapason       61 pipes
    8' Melodia             61 pipes
    8' Dulciana            61 pipes
    8' Unda Maris TC       49 pipes
    4' Flute               12 pipes
    4' Dulcet              12 pipes
    2' Fifteenth           24 pipes
  III  Mixture (1-1/3)      derived  from Octave & Twelfth
       Chimes              25 tubes
       Tremulant
    4' Great to Great
   16' Swell to Great
    8' Swell to Great
    4' Swell to Great

SWELL ORGAN (enclosed)
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt    12 pipes
    8' Geigen Diapason	common bass  1-12 Stop Diap & Salicional
    8' Stopped Diapason    61 pipes
    8' Salicional          61 pipes
    8' Voix Celeste TC     49 pipes
   2⅔' Nazard                  -
   1⅓' Larigot                 -
       Tremulant
   16' Swell to Swell
    4' Swell to Swell

PEDAL ORGAN (enclosed)
   16' Subbass             12 pipes
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt          SW
    8' Open Diapason             GT
    8' Bass Flute                GT
    4' Principal                 GT
    8' Great to Pedal
    4' Great to Pedal
    8' Swell to Pedal
    4' Swell to Pedal

 [Reconstructed from Russell Meyer annotated stoplist.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#66894 - Russell Meyer & Associates Opus 2 (2000)