Better Pipe Organ Database

Schlicker Organ Co. (1959)

Immanuel Presbyterian Church: Westminster Chapel
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Images

2020-10-08 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Charlie Raasch/Charlie Raasch)

2020-10-08 - Stop tabs and manuals (Photograph by Charlie Raasch/Charlie Raasch)

2020-10-08 - Console (Photograph by Charlie Raasch/Charlie Raasch)

2020-10-08 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Charlie Raasch/Charlie Raasch)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Non-Traditional Style, As Consoles by Holtkamp, Schlicker, et al
3 manuals
28 stops
35 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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

2016-04-04 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Jim Lewis, based on personal knowledge of the organ.<br><br>Electric key and stop action. Designed by Clarence Mader and Herman Schlicker. -Database Manager

2021-08-20 - This instrument has been aurally preserved through digital sampling by Charles Raasch and Jonathan Orwig of Evensong Music -Charles Raasch

Stoplist

Source: The Diapason Nov., 1959 2017-05-23; Updated 2021-08-20

Los Angeles, CA
Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Chapel)

SCHLICKER ORGAN CO., Inc., 1959 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        SWELL (Expressive)
16'    Quintadena                61          8'     Rohr-Floete               61
8'     Principal                 61          8'     Viola                     61
8'     Holz-Floete               61          8'     Celeste             (tc)  49
4'     Octave                    61          8'     Dolce                     61
4'     Quintadena (ext.)         24          4'     Spitz-Floete              61
2'     Nacht-Horn                61          2'     Principal                 61
V      Mixture                  305          1 1/3' Larigot                   61
       Chimes                   (2_)         II     Cymbel                   122
                                             8'     Trumpet                   61
                                                    Tremolo
PEDAL
16'    Bourdon                   32          Swell to Swell 16'
16'    Quintadena          (Gt)  –-          Swell to Swell 4'
8'     Principal                 32          
8'     Bourdon                   32          
4'     Choral-Bass               32          POSITIV 
4'     Quintadena          (Gt)  –-          8'     Gedeckt                   61
2'     Nacht-Horn          (Gt)  –-          8'     Quintadena          (Gt)  –-
III    Mixture                   96          4'     Principal                 61
16'    Fagott                    32          4'     Koppel-Floete             61
4'     Krummhorn          (Pos)  –-          2'     Gemshorn                  61
                                             II     Sesquialtera  [12-17]    122
                                             III    Scharf Cymbel            183
                                             8'     Krummhorn                 61
                                                    Tremolo


COUPLERS                                     FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal                  8            General                       1 - 3
Great to Pedal                  8            Swell                         1 - 5
Positiv to Pedal                8            Great                         1 - 4
                                             Positiv                       1 - 4
Swell to Great               16,8,4          GC
Positiv to Great             16,8

Swell to Positiv                8            TOE STUDS
                                             General                       1 – 6
                                             Pedal                         1 – 4
PEDAL MOVEMENTS                              Sforz.                        (rev)
Swell Expression             (bal.)          G. C.
Crescendo                    (bal.)


ACTION: E-P       VOICES: 28       STOPS: 35       RANKS: 38       PIPES: _____
                                 (inc. chimes)   


NOTES
The organ is in chambers at the front of the room. The Swell II Cymbel is only
24 pipes which repeat every octave.

Sources: OHS Database


Immanuel Presbyterian Church – Chapel
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90010


[Original document from Jim Lewis, 2017-05-23]
[Corrected/Updated by James R. Stettner, 2021-08-20]