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Wicks Pipe Organ Co. Opus 20 (1910)

First German Evangelical Church / Columbia United Church of Christ: Sanctuary; front
4311 Eastern Avenue
Cincinnati, OH

OHS convention: 1965

Images

2021-05-24 - Builders nameplate (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2021-05-24 - Swell pipework (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2021-05-24 - Great pipework (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2021-05-24 - Keydesk: left stopjamb (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2021-04-24 - Keydesk: right stopjamb (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

2021-05-24 - Keydesk (Photograph by Don Daley/Don Daley)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
11 stops
11 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2021-05-25 - Installed with electric blower in 1910, cost $1,700.00. -Jim Stettner

2022-10-27 - The order for this organ was placed in December 1909. The Carnegie Foundation paid one half of the total price of $1750.00. The organ was dedicated the second Sunday in April, 1910. Wicks was established in 1906. Tubular pneumatic action. -- *1965 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from photos of the console and pipework May 25, 2021

Cincinnati, Ohio
First German Evangelical Church

Wicks Pipe Organ Co., Opus 20, 1910 - Original Specifications


    GREAT:
8'  Open Diapason                61
8'  Melodia                      61
8'  Dulciana                     61; (Orig. label missing)
4'  Octave                       61

Great to Great 4'


    SWELL ((Expressive)
8'  Violin Diapason              61
8'  Stop'd Diapason              61
8'  Salicional                   61
8'  Aeoline                      61
4'  Flute Traverse               61
8'  Oboe  [labial?]              61; (orig. label missing)
    Sw. Tremolo	


    PEDAL:
16' Bourdon                      30


INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal                 [8]
Great to Pedal                 [8]

Swell to Great               16,8,4


FINGER PISTONS 	Unlabeled (under Sw. keys)
Unknown                       1 - 8


PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)