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Wicks Opus 6055 (1985)

St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Cathedral: Nave (Antiphonal organ)
140 South Monroe Avenue
Green Bay, WI

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

Images


2012-12-28 - Cathedral Exterior (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Chancel and Altar (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Organ Case (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Organ Case (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Console (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Pedal Stop Tablets (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Swell Stop Tablets (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

2012-12-28 - Great Stop Tablets (Photograph by Rodney J. Weed/Database Manager)

Consoles

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Notes

2013-01-03 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Rodney J. Weed, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- The Cathedral signed a contract(s) with Wicks to rebuild the old three manual Schaefer organ in the gallery. At the same time either in a separate contract or as part of this contract the Cathedral contracted for this organ, a small very unified and duplexed five-rank organ with a two manual console to be installed in the Front of the Cathedral while the Gallery organ was being built. It was then to be the Antiphonal Division of the Gallery organ. The Opus number for this organ is 6055 and the number for the Gallery organ is 6054. This Antiphonal organ was installed in 1985 several months to a year or so before the Gallery organ (Opus 6054) was installed in the Gallery. <br><br>I know this because I played this organ when there was no organ in the Gallery and also because I helped carry in the pipes for the Gallery organ and the Antiphonal organ was in place when that was done. It is amazing that Wicks could squeeze 30 stops including a Celeste and III rank mixture out of 5 ranks of pipes. It is by far the most unified and duplexed organ I have ever come across. -Database Manager

2013-01-04 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -- This small highly unified and duplexed Anitphonal organ was installed first to fill in while the large Gallery organ was being built. When the Gallery organ was installed in 1986 this unit organ remained in place as an independent instrument and also as the Antiphonal division of the Gallery Organ. It can be turned on and off and is fully playable and controllable from the Gallery Organ Console as well as from its own movable console in the front of the Cathedral. -Database Manager

2018-09-05 - The antiphonal division was relocated to Church of the Apostles, Episcopal, in Oro Valley, Arizona, as described in an email from Dr. Jeffery Campbell. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from Stoplist copied from the Cathedral Website on January 3, 2013 & Physically checking Console in person on Dec Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Green Bay, Wisconsin
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral

Wicks Opus 6055  1985

GREAT

8’  Principal
8’  Rohr Gedeckt
8’  Gemshorn
8’  Gemshorn Celeste
4’  Principal
4’  Copula
2’  Octave
2’  Gemshorn
III  Mixtur
8’  Trompette
4’  Clarion


SWELL

8’  Gemshorn
8’  Gemshorn Celeste
8’  Rohr Flöte
4’  Flute
4’  Gemshorn
2 2/3’ Quint
2’  Block Flöte
1 1/3’ Larigot
1’  Gemshorn
8’  Trompette

Tremolo


PEDAL

16’  Sub Bass
16’  Lieblich
8’   Principal
8’   Rohr Gedeckt
4’   Choral Bass
2’   Flute
16’  Contra Trompette
4’   Clarion


COUPLERS  (Note because the organ is so heavily unified & duplexed there are no Sub or Super couplers)

Swell to Great

Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

ACCESSORIES

Crescendo Pedal
Sforzando

Indicator lights for Wind, Crescendo and Sforzando

Key lock on combination action setter

 [Received from Rodney J. Weed 2013-01-04.]

Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i>, October 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Green Bay, Wisconsin
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Cathedral - Sanctuary Organ

Wicks Organ Company   Opus 6055   1985                    2 manuals, 5 stops, 5 ranks
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     GREAT ORGAN                    SWELL ORGAN                    PEDAL ORGAN
  8' Principal                   8' Gemshorn                   16' Subbass
  8' Rohrgedeckt                 8' Gemshorn Celeste (TC)      16' Lieblich
  8' Gemshorn                    8' Rohrflöte                   8' Principal
  8' Gemshorn Celeste (TC)       4' Flute                       8' Rohrgedeckt
  4' Principal                   4' Gemshorn                    4' Choralbass
  4' Copula                  2 2/3' Quint                       2' Flute
  2' Octave                      2' Blockflöte                 16' Contre Trompette
  2' Gemshorn                1 1/3' Larigot                     4' Clarion
     Mixture III                 1' Gemshorn                       Great to Pedal
  8' Trompette                   8' Trompette                      Swell to Pedal
  4' Clarion                        Tremolo
     Swell to Great

     ANALYSIS                       ACCESSORIES                    INDICATOR LIGHTS
 16' Rohrgedeckt        97 pipes    Balanced Swell Pedal           Wind
  8' Principal          85 pipes    Crescendo Pedal                Crescendo
  4' Gemshorn           73 pipes    Sforzando                      Sforzando
  8' Gems. Celeste (TC) 49 pipes
 16' Trompette          85 pipes


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2015-11-09]

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