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Wicks Pipe Organ Co. Opus 4345 (1963)

First Baptist Church
1801 5th Avenue North
Bessemer, AL

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

Images

2005-05-19 - Exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-05-19 - Console, from the left (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-05-19 - Choir loft, organ, pulpit from rear balcony (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
22 stops
39 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-05 - The church is merging with two other Baptist congregations in the area. Church property has been sold (April, 2005), and organ will either be moved to new building or be placed in storage in the near future. -Database Manager

2005-05-19 - Echo division is from the 1911 Pilcher, playing on new (1963) Wicks chests. Two sets of pipes displayed on the wall behind the choir were once speaking pipes (stencilled), but they have been painted with gold paint and are not winded. Notes in the Wicks files indicate they were supplied by the church, so they are also probably from the Pilcher. -Database Manager

2010-01-09 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- 2006, combined with Wicks (Opus 6040, 1970) from South Highlands Baptist in Bessemer by the Milner Organ Co. for The Baptist Church at McAdory in McCalla, Alabama. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of James H. Cook Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Bessemer, Alabama
       First Baptist Church

       Wicks   Op. 4345   1963   3/22
       _______________________________________________

       GREAT                         SWELL

    8' Diapason         61       16' Gedeckt        12
    8' Bourdon          61        8' Stopped Flute  61
    8' Dolcan           CH        8' Gamba          61
    4' Octave           61        8' Gamba Celeste  49
2 2/3' Twelfth          61        4' Principal      61
    2' Fifteenth        61        4' Flute          12
       Super                  2 2/3' Nazard          7
       Chimes                     2' Piccolo         5
                                  8' Trompette      61
       ECHO                       8' Oboe           61
                                  4' Clarion        12
    8' Flute            61           Tremolo
    8' Salicional       61           Sub
    8' Voix Celeste     49           Unison Off
    4' Harmonic Flute   61           Super
    4' Violina          12
    8' Vox Humana       61           CHOIR
       Tremolo
                                  8' Nason Flute    61
       PEDAL                      8' Dolcan         61
                                  8' Dolcan Celeste 49
   16' Bourdon          32        4' Flute          12
   16' Gedeckt          SW        4' Dolce          12
    8' Principal        32    2 2/3' Dolce 12th      7
    8' Bass Flute       12        2' Dolce 15th      5
    4' Choralbass       12        8' Clarinet       61
    4' Flute            12           Tremolo
   16' Contre Trompette 12 SW        Sub
    8' Trompette        SW           Unison Off
                                     Super

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 3, 2014]

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