Wicks Organ Co.
Opus 6419, 2004
First Congregational Church
Sanctuary
129 South Park Street
Kalamazoo, MI, US
45 Ranks
Instrument ID: 45592 ● Builder ID: 7431 ● Location ID: 12362
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| Great (II)🛈 | ||
| 16' | Violone | |
| 8' | First Open Diapason | |
| 8' | Second Open Diapason | |
| 8' | Violoncello | |
| 8' | Harmonic Flute | |
| 8' | Bourdon | |
| 4' | Principal | |
| 4' | Night Horn | |
| 4' | Flute Octaviante | |
| 2 2⁄3' | Twelfth | |
| 2' | Fifteenth | |
| V | Full Mixture | |
| 8' | Tromba | CH |
| Tremolo | ||
| Chimes | ||
| 8' | Subterranean Tuba | EC |
| Swell (III - Expressive)🛈 | ||
| 16' | Minor Bourdon | |
| 8' | Horn Diapason | |
| 8' | Stopped Diapason | |
| 8' | Viola🛈 | |
| 8' | Viola Celeste [tc]🛈 | |
| 4' | Octave Diapason | |
| 4' | Traverse Flute | |
| 2 2⁄3' | Flute Twelfth | |
| 2' | Harmonic Piccolo | |
| V | Chorus Mixture | |
| 16' | Waldhorn | |
| 8' | Cornopean | |
| 8' | Oboe | |
| 8' | Vox Humana | |
| 4' | Clarion | |
| Tremolo | ||
| MIDI | ||
| 8' | Subterranean Tuba | EC |
| Choir (I - Expressive)🛈 | ||
| 8' | Violin Diapason | |
| 8' | Melodia | |
| 8' | Muted Viol🛈 | |
| 8' | Viol Celeste [tc]🛈 | |
| 4' | Octave | |
| 4' | Magic Flute | |
| 2 2⁄3' | Gemshorn Twelfth | |
| 2' | Tapered Fifteenth | |
| 2' | Recorder | |
| 1 3⁄5' | Seventeenth | |
| 8' | Trumpet🛈 | |
| 8' | Tromba | |
| 8' | English Horn | |
| 8' | Basset Horn | |
| Tremolo | ||
| MIDI | ||
| Harp [in Sw]🛈 | ||
| Celesta | ||
| 8' | Subteranean Tuba | EC |
| Echo (Expressive)🛈 | ||
| 8' | Open Diapason🛈 | |
| 8' | Chimney Flute🛈 | |
| 4' | Octave Diapason🛈 | |
| 4' | Flute🛈 | |
| Tremolo | ||
| 8' | Subterranean Tuba |
| Pedal🛈 | ||
| 32' | Acoustic Bass | |
| 32' | Minor Acoustic Bass | SW |
| 16' | Major Bass | |
| 16' | Violone | GT |
| 16' | Bourdon | GT |
| 16' | Minor Bourdon | SW |
| 8' | Principal | |
| 8' | Violoncello | GT |
| 8' | Stopped Flute | GT |
| 4' | Fifteenth | |
| 32' | Double Trombone | |
| 16' | Trombone | |
| 16' | Waldhorn | SW |
| 8' | Subterranean Tuba | EC |
| 8' | Tromba | CH |
| 8' | Trumpet | CH |
| 4' | Tromba Clarion | CH |
| 4' | English Horn | CH |
| Chimes | GT | |
| MIDI |
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CONSOLES
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Builder: Wicks Organ Co.
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions71 StopsElectrical Key Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Database Manager on July 2nd, 2011:
The Subterranean Tuba, on 20" of wind, is located in the basement and speaks through the floor behind expression shades. The organ also includes several ranks of pipes from the church's previous ca. 1928 Austin organ.
The Subterranean Tuba, on 20" of wind, is located in the basement and speaks through the floor behind expression shades. The organ also includes several ranks of pipes from the church's previous ca. 1928 Austin organ.
Database Manager on November 27th, 2009:
Identified through on-line information from John Gouwens. -- This organ was from a brief period when Wicks was attempting to return to the style of organs they built in the 1930s with Vincent Willis. There were reportedly just four large organs that resulted from that initiative before there was a parting of ways, and the tonal people involved formed another company. This is an astoundingly convincing re-creation of a Willis-style "English" organ, and in fine acoustics, to boot! The organ is in its original home, but it includes seven ranks from a mostly-vandalized Austin that preceded it.
Related Instrument Entries: Austin Organ Co. (Opus 1514, ca. 1928)
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