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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 3770 (1957)

St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church
224 Carrier Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

2014-06-25 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Church Ceiling (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Church Interior and Altar (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Stained Glass Windows (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Swell Pipework (Oboe Horn in foreground) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Great Pipework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Pipework at back of Organ Case (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2014-06-25 - Church exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
6 stops
24 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-06-28 - The factory specifications indicate that the organ was installed originally with six ranks. The Swell Voix Celeste and Pedal Bourdon were apparently added sometime later. In 2013, Swem Pipe Organ Maintenance added three more ranks to the organ. Those pipes came from the organ in the former First Reformed Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The pipe facade is from the church's previous organ. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist provided by Wicks Organ Company. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Rapids, Michigan
ST. ALPHONSUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

Wicks Organ Company   Opus 3770    6 ranks    1957
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GREAT:                          SWELL:                         PEDAL:
    8' Diapason Conique 61          8' Rohrflute 61               16' Bourdon [pf]
    8' Flute Celeste [pf]           8' Viola Pomposa 61           16' Gemshorn 12 [GT]
    8' Gemshorn 61                  8' Voix Celeste [pf]          16' Rohr Bourdon 12 [SW]
    8' Flute Harmonique 61          4' Geigen Octave [pf]          8' Bass Flute [pf]
    8' Dolcan [pf]                  4' Fugara 12                   8' Gemshorn [GT]
    4' Prestant 12                  4' Chimney Flute 12            8' Flauto Dolce [SW]
    4' Gemshorn 12              2 2/3' Nazard 7                    8' Cello [SW]
    4' Orchestral Flute 12          2' Flautino 5              5 1/5' Quint
2 2/3' Twelfth 7                    8' Oboe Horn 61                4' Choral Bass [GT]
    2' Fifteenth 5                  8' Trompette [pf]             16' Trombone [pf]
       Tremolo                      4' Clarion [pf]                8' Oboe Horn [SW]
                                  III  Mixture [pf]                8' Trompette [pf]
                                       Tremolo

                       
Submitted by Chad Boorsma • June 28, 2014

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