2015-03-18 - Organ Case (Photograph by Eric Miller/Database Manager)
2015-03-18 - Console (Photograph by Eric Miller/Database Manager)
2013-01-22 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Scot Huntington, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- The organ is a stock-design unit organ, installed in a walnut-stained oak case. The cost of the instrument was $18,500, and when it was installed in May 1973, the delivery was 6 months late. The organ was not contracted to have a combination action, but Hermann Schlicker added the company's rudimentary but economical setterboard-type combination action above the contract- no doubt because the church was less than a 45 minute drive from the factory which made it a suitable demonstration instrument for prospective clients, and Schlicker wanted the organ to demonstrate all the available options. The combination action was blind, and like similar systems popular in Germany at the time, uses three rows of tiny drawknobs above each stop tablet- each row corresponding to one of the three numbered pistons. This type of system allows the organist not only to see visually what combinations are set, but to change them at will, even while playing. The on-site voicing and tonal finishing was done by Louis Rothenberger and David Dickson. Originally installed with the detached console facing the organ and choir, (and the organist's back to the altar), the console has since been turned 90 degrees with the choir and organ now at the organist's right. -Database Manager
2013-01-23 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- It is not known if the church may have had a pipe organ previously, but the Schlicker replaced an aging electronic. A photo of the organ may be seen at the church's web site. -Database Manager
stoplist from memory Source: Console 1973
Farnham, New York
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Schlicker Organ Company, Inc.
1973
Stock model unit organ installed in a free-standing case.
The Principal, Mixture, and 16' basses are unenclosed, the remainder of the instrument is enclosed in an expression box. The chimes are mounted on the wall and are decorative. The Swell shutters are operated by an 8-stage pneumatic engine.
GREAT
Principal 8'
Gedeckt 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Gedeckt 4'
Nasat 2 2/3'
Octave 2'
Rohrfloete 2'
Mixture II
Schalmei 8'
Schalmei 4'
Chimes from former organ
SWELL
Gedeckt 8'
Salicional 8'
Rohrfloete 4'
Salicional 4'
Principal 2'
Gedeckt 2'
Larigot 1 1/3'
Siffloete 1'
Schalmei 8'
Tremolo
PEDAL
Untersatz 16'
Principal 8'
Gedeckt 8'
Octave 4'
Gedeckt 4'
Rohrfloete 2'
Rauschquint II Rohrfloete 2 2/3', Principal 2'
Basson 16'
Schalmei 8'
Schalmei 4'
"Frei Kombination" pistons (blind) 1-3, added above the contract by the builder. Setter knobs in three rows above the stop tablets, with indicator lights.
0 piston (Kombination cancel)
Swell expression pedal
UNIT ANALYSIS
Unenclosed:
Untersatz 16 1-12 ext. Gedeckt
Principal/Octave 8-2 1-12 zinc, facade; tin @ 4'-C, top octave of 2'
from Rohrfloete
Mixture II 1-12 borrows tenor octave
tenor-c: 2'+ 1 1/3'; breaks c25, c37
Basson 16 1-12 zinc, ext. of Schalmei, 1/2-L
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Enclosed:
Gedeckt 8-2 oak, top two octaves from Rohrfloete
Salicional 8-4 spotted metal, 1-12 from Gedeckt
Rohrfloete 4-2 spotted metal, 1-12 from Gedeckt, top two
octaves open spitzfloete construction
Nasat/Larigot from Rohrfloete, top 5 notes of 1 1/3 repeat
Siffloete 1 from Rohrfloete, top octave repeats
Schalmei 8-4 spotted metal, 1-12 1/2-L single taper
full-length Oboe construction from tenor-c,
top two octaves flues
Tremolo affects entire organ
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