2011-11-07 - Church exterior (Photograph by David Clouston, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2021-04-10 - Updated though online information from Ronald Swedlund. -- 1926 organ rebuilt in 1973; moved to new location in 1995, and is in storage. The building where the organ resided from 1926 to 1995 is no longer a church, but a recording studio: see http://www.blueheavenstudios.com/ Originally published NA -Jim Stettner
Source: Taken from console and pipe chests (1973 and 1926 specifications).
Salina, Kansas
First Christian Church, DoC
Wicks Organ Co., Opus 5298, 1973
Installed in 1973: 21 ranks, 19 pipe voices, 1,254 pipes.
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GREAT
8 Principal (*) 61 pipes
8 Bourdon (*) [metal] 61 pipes
8 Dulciana [expressive] 61 pipes
4 Prestant (*) 61 pipes
4 Spillpfeife (*) 61 pipes
2 Flachflöte (*) 61 pipes, not tapered
III Mixture [1 1/3] (*) 183 pipes
8 Trumpet [expressive] 61 pipes **1926 Cornopean
Chimes*** 32 tubes
SWELL (Expressive)
8 Stopped Flöte [wood] 61 pipes, 1926 Stopped Diapason
8 Salicional 61 pipes
8 Voix Celeste (tc) 49 pipes
8 Aeoline (tc) 49 pipes
4 Principal (*) 61 pipes, from 1926 Violin Diapason
4 Hohl Flöte (*) [wood] 61 pipes, from 1926 Melodia
2 2/3 Nasat (*) [tapered] 61 pipes, replacing 1926 Vox Humana
2 Piccolo 24 pipes
8 Oboe 61 pipes, 1926 Oboe Bassoon
Tremolo ****
Swell to Swell 16
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4
PEDAL (Expressive)
16 Bourdon [wood] 32 pipes
16 Lieblich Gedeckt [wood] 12 pipes
8 Diapason (*) 32 pipes, 1926 Open Diapason
8 Bourdon [wood] 12 pipes
8 Gamba (*) 32 pipes, 1926 Gamba
4 Choral Bass (*) 12 pipes, from 1926 Open Diapason
4 Flute (*) [wood] 12 pipes, 1973 extension
8 Trumpet (*) (Gt) --
4 Clarion (*) (Gt) -- , from Trumpet
(*) 1973 addition.
** This rank was filled with fallen plaster and, thus, incapacitated, as a
result of a roof leak during a 1951 flood; in 1973, Wicks repaired and
revoiced it.
*** Mass Cathedral Chimes (Los Angeles, California): C2-G4.
**** Acts upon all enclosed ranks.
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INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal 8
Great to Pedal 8
Swell to Great 16,8,4
FINGER PISTONS
General 1 - 4
General Cancel
TOE STUDS
Great to Pedal (rev)
Sforzando (rev)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression (“Swell”) (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
CONTROL KNOB
Chimes volume (six levels)
INDICATOR LIGHTS
Crescendo pedal light green
Sforzando light red
MIXTURE COMPOSITION - III Great [1 1/3]
C1 19 - 22 - 26
B2 15 - 19 - 22
G4 12 - 15 - 19
F5 8 - 12 - 15
NOTES
Built by Wicks Organ Company (Highland, Illinois) in 1926; rebuilt by the
same company in 1973. Unenclosed chimes were located on the chancel’s left
(Gospel) side, in a chamber behind an ornamental grill and facing the nave;
the organ’s remainder was located on the chancel’s right (Epistle) side. The
action is direct electric.
Exempting the chimes and unenclosed great ranks, the organ was enclosed in
one swellbox, in a chamber behind an ornamental grill and facing the nave;
the chambered pipes faced, and spoke towards, not the chamber’s opening, but
the chamber’s left wall. Added in 1973, the unenclosed great ranks (8-8-4-4-
2-mixture)—characterized by open toes and no nicking—rested on a flowerbox
chest, in front of the chamber.
In 1995, the church sold the mid-1920’s Gothic-style building and installed
the organ in a new, smaller building. The organ, no longer used, and is in
storage.
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