Better Pipe Organ Database

Wicks Organ Co. Opus 2921 (1949)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
220 Masonic St.
Dyersburg, TN

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
28 stops
59 registers
6 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-12-21 - Replaced in 1991 by 3/48 Casavant Op. 3704. -Database Manager

2015-02-17 - Relocated in 1991 to St. Peter's Catholic Church, Montgomery, Alabama, by Michael Proscia. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> July 1951 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Dyersburg, Tennessee
       First Baptist Church

       Wicks   Op. 2921   1949   3/30
       _________________________________________________

       As per the policy of THE AMERICAN ORGANIST at the
       time, stop names of extensions and borrows are
       shown with the same name as the parent rank.

       GREAT (encl w/CH)              SWELL

   16' Gemshorn      tc           16' Stopped Flute   12
    8' 1st Diapason  61            8' Diapason        73
    8' 2nd Diapason  61            8' Stopped Flute   61
    8' Rohrflöte     61            8' Salicional      73
    8' Violoncello   73            8' Voix Celeste    61
    8' Gemshorn      73            8' Aeoline         73
    8' Concert Flute CH            4' Diapason        --
    4' Octave        61            4' Stopped Flute   12
    4' Violoncello   --            4' Salicional      --
    4' Gemshorn      --            8' English Horn    73
    4' Concert Flute CH            8' Vox Humana      61
2 2/3' Twelfth       61               Tremulant
    2' Fifteenth     61 *             Sub
  III  Mixture      122 *             Unison Off
    8' Trumpet       61               Super
       Tremulant                      Harp            CH
       Sub                            Vibra-Harp      CH
       Unison Off
       Super                          CHOIR
       Chimes        21           16' Dulciana        61
                                   8' Violin Diapason 73
       PEDAL                       8' Concert Flute   73
                                   8' Violoncello     GT
   32' Resultant     --            8' Dulciana        12
   16' Diapason      32            8' Unda Maris      61
   16' Sub Bass      32            4' Concert Flute   --
   16' Stopped Flute SW            4' Dulciana        --
   16' Dulciana      CH        2 2/3' Dulciana         7
    8' Diapason      12            2' Dulciana         5
    8' Sub Bass      12            8' French Horn     73
    8' Violoncello   GT               Tremulant
    8' Stopped Flute SW               Sub
    4' Diapason      12               Unison Off
    4' Octave        GT               Super
   16' Trumpet       12 GT            Harp            49
    8' Trumpet       GT               Vibra-Harp      --

       ECHO PEDAL                     ECHO
   16' Echo Flute    12 EC
    8' Echo Flute    EC            8' Echo Flute      61
                                   8' Nachthorn       61
       The organ was installed     8' Muted Viole     61
       in late 1949 and the        8' Voix Celeste    49
       organist was Mrs.           4' Echo Flute      12
       Woodrow Midkiff             4' Muted Viole     12
                                   4' Voix Celeste    12
                                   8' Vox Humana      61
                                      Tremulant

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 21, 2014]

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