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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]
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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 .
An early factory (no longer used by Schoenstein & Co.) in San Francisco is one of the few factories built for organ-building and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, under the name "Schoenstein and Company Pipe Organ Factory" since 1978; [3] [2] and is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark, under the name ...
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Ornate ceiling of the Warnors Theatre Warnors Theatre Pipe Organ. The theater features a unit orchestra (a pipe organ which includes numerous features and instruments, meant to be able to replicate sounds of a full orchestra with only one organist), which was manufactured by the Robert Morton Organ Company of Van Nuys, California and installed in 1928.
A replacement Wurlitzer pipe organ was installed beginning in 1992. [1] The organ is the "twin" of the organ originally installed in the Golden State when the theater opened in 1926. The theater was acquired by a private investor in 2005. An incomplete restoration was undertaken by the new owner beginning the same year.