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Wicks Organ Co. Opus 474 (1923)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
230 J R Miller Blvd.
Owensboro, KY

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
30 stops
4 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 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

Notes

2015-12-17 - This was a rebuild of and tonal changes to 1895 2-manual Hook & Hastings Op. 1676; possibly replaced in 1951 by a 3/24 Kilgen; which ever organ was there was replaced in 1974 by a 3/39 Reuter. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of the Wicks Organ Co. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Owensboro, Kentucky
       First Baptist Church

       Wicks   Op. 474   1923   3/24
       ________________________________________________

       GREAT (encl)                 SWELL

    8' Open Diapason    73      16' Bourdon          73
    8' Doppel Flute     73 *     8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Gamba            73 *     8' Stop Diapason    73
    8' Melodia          73       8' Salicional       73
    8' Dulciana         73       8' Aeoline          73
    4' Octave           73       4' Flute d'Amour    73
    4' Flute Harmonic   73       4' Violine          73
2 2/3' Twelfth          73       8' Oboe (reedless)  73 * 
    2' Fifteenth        73       8' Vox Humana       73 *b
       Tremolo                      Tremolo
       Sub                          Sub
       Super                        Super
       Chimes           20 a
                                    PEDAL
       CHOIR 
                                16' Open Diapason    30
    8' Violin Diapason  73 *    16' Bourdon          30
    8' Melodia          GT      16' Contra Viol      12 GT *   
    8' Stop Diapason    SW      16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    8' Salicional       SW       8' Violoncello      30
    8' Dolce            73
    4' Flute Harmonic   GT
    8' Clarinet         73 *
       Tremolo
       Sub
       Super

    *  new pipework; the balance is from 1895 Hook &
       Hastings Op. 1676
    a  enclosed in the Choir swell box
    b  to be of the Wicks own make and equal to the one
       in the organ at First Presbyterian, Lawrenceville IL

        [Received from Jeff Scofield December 17,2015]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#57245 - Hook & Hastings Opus 1676 (1895)