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Wicks Pipe Organ Co. (1938)

Holy Name Roman Catholic Church
1689 Centre Street
West Roxbury, MA

OHS convention: 2000


Images


2021-05-23 - Rebuilder's plate (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Pedalboard (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Keyboard (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Left facade (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Right facade (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2021-05-23 - Console (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2022-08-11 - Church exterior side (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Organ loft with built in choir stalls, console, and pipe chamber (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Nave from rear gallery showing chancel with sanctuary division located in apse behind pillars (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Church exterior front (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Organ in rear gallery and nave showing unique lighted cross structure in ceiling (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Memorial plaque mounted on console (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-08-11 - Sanctuary console and sanctuary pipe chamber illuminated from inside (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010-09-24 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2011-01-03 - Church interior to rear and organ (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-05-23 - Restored console (Photograph by Richard Bunbury, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

1999-05-04 - Original console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Balcony and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1999-05-04 - Builder's Nameplate (Unknown/Database Manager)

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Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2000 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Twin 3m drawknob consoles. The Sanctuary organ was not working in 2000. Sanctuary organ also controlled from the Gallery console. Designed under Henry Vincent Willis. -Database Manager

2019-02-17 - Updated by John Roper, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Dr. Richard Bunbury. <br> <br>Organ restored to fully working condition in 2004. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> April 1940 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       West Roxbury, Massachusetts
       Holy Name R. C. Church

       Wicks   Op. 1691   1938   3/42
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       GREAT                         SWELL                        SANCTUARY GREAT

   16' Gemshorn         61       16' Lieblich Bourdon 12       8' Open Diapason    61
    8' Open Diapason    61        8' Open Diapason    73       8' Melodia          61
    8' Second Diapason  61        8' Harmonic Flute   73       8' Dulciana         61
    8' Viola            61        8' Stopped Flute    73       4' Octave           12
    8' Gemshorn         12        8' Salicional       73       4' Flute            12
    8' Gemshorn Celeste 49        8' Voix Celeste     61          Sub
    8' Concert Flute    61        8' Aeoline          73          Unison Off
    4' Octave           61        4' Flauto Traverso  73          Super
    4' Saube Flute      61    2 2/3' Nazard           61
2 2/3' Twelfth          61        2' Flautino         61          SANCTUARY SWELL
    2' Fifteenth        61    1 3/5' Tierce           61
    8' Trumpet          61      III  Mixture (a)      --      16' Bourdon          73
       Sub                       16' Contra Fagotto   73       8' Stopped Flute    12
       Unison Off                 8' Cornopean        73       8' Salicional       73
       Super                      8' Oboe             73       4' Flute            12
                                  8' Vox Humana       73       4' Violina          12
       CHOIR                      4' Clarion          73       8' Oboe Horn        73
                                     Tremolo                      Tremolo
    8' Open Diapason    73           Reed Tremolo                 Sub
    8' Claribel Flute   73           Sub                          Unison Off
    8' Gedeckt          73           Unison Off                   Super
    8' Dulciana         73           Super                      
    8' Unda Maris       61                                        SANCTUARY PEDAL
    4' Flute d'Amaour   61           PEDAL
    8' French Horn      73                                    16' Bourdon          32
    8' Clarinet         73       16' Open Diapason    32      16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
       Tremolo                   16' Bourdon          32       8' Flute            GT
       French Horn Tremolo       16' Gemshorn         GT       8' Gedeckt          SW
       Sub                       16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW       4' Cello            SW
       Unison Off                 8' Octave           12
       Super                      8' Gedeckt          12
                                  8' Cello            GT
                                  8' Flute Dolce      SW
                                 16' Trombone         12 GT
                                 16' Fagotto          SW

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 3, 2014]

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