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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.
Wicks Organ Company, Highland, Illinois Rudolph Wurlitzer Company , North Tonawanda, New York (1856–1988) Cornel Zimmer Organ Builders, Denver, North Carolina (1992- ) [ 142 ]
Console of Robert Morton Organ at the Jefferson Theatre. 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. The name ...
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.
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]
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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.