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Wicks Organ Company, Highland, Illinois Rudolph Wurlitzer Company , Cincinnati, Ohio (1856–1988) Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders, Denver, North Carolina (1992–) [ 143 ]
The Wicks Organ Company was founded by Adolph Wick, John F. Wick, and Louis Wick in the early 1900s at their jewelry and watch making store in Highland, Illinois. A local priest asked John Wick to study organ; he studied organ at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, and then became the church organist.
The instrument is more than double the size of the Oratory’s existing three-manual and pedal, 22-rank gallery organ from 1924 by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois. The Wicks instrument replaced an even smaller two-manual and pedal, 15-rank instrument by J.G. Pfeffer & Sons of St. Louis from 1897.
Extensive landscaping to the grounds was introduced, the exterior was renewed, the copper dome restored and a 2,500-pipe Wicks organ installed. Bishop Bernard J. Ganter , third Bishop of Beaumont, and Monsignor Bennie Patillo undertook the building of a new cathedral center and chapel-office complex that was dedicated in 1991.
The American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) is an American non-profit organization, dedicated to preserving and promoting the theatre pipe organ and its musical art form. [ 1 ] ATOS consists of regional member-chapters, and is led by democratically elected leaders.
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Facade of the Noack organ. The main worship space of the church which is used for the traditional liturgies has a substantial pipe organ redesigned, enlarged and rebuilt from the original Aeolian-Skinner by the Noack Organ Company in 1994. The organ has four manuals (keyboards) and 65 stops spread over 80 ranks.
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