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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.
, New York City (1832–1932) Wicks Organ Company, Highland, Illinois; Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, North Tonawanda, New York (1856–1988) Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders, Denver, North Carolina (1992- ) [142]
The Robert Morton Organ Company was an American producer of theater pipe organs and church organs, located in Van Nuys, California. Robert Morton was the number two volume producer of theatre organs, building approximately half as many organs as the industry leader Wurlitzer .
Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre. A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s. Console of the Rhinestone Barton theatre organ, installed in Theatre Cedar ...
St. Peter's houses a 1978 Wicks Organ Company pipe organ, Opus 5706. It is located in the rear gallery of the cathedral. Some of the pipes are exposed in the large case that frames a rose window. The organ features 5 divisions, 45 stops, 47 ranks, and 2,707 pipes. The manual compass is 61 notes and the pedal compass is 32 notes. [4]
Reading Town Hall organ, built by Willis in 1864, extended in 1882 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1999 St Bees Priory organ, the last major instrument to be personally supervised by "Father" Henry Willis, 1899. Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845. Although most of their installations have been in ...
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The Organ Symphonies of Edward Shippen Barnes, performed by Simon Nieminski; 1937 Wicks organ, St Mary's RC Cathedral, Peoria, Illinois, USA: Pro Organo, January 2001. Pro Organo CD 7131 Pro Organo CD 7131