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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 ]
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The chancel area is separated from the nave by a large Gothic arch, behind which is a set of curtains which can block off that space when the chapel is being used for functions other than worship, though they are rarely used as such. The organ is situated on the back wall, with the largest pipes of the pedal division flanking the west door.
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.
Rodgers Instruments Corporation is an American manufacturer of classical and church organs.Rodgers was incorporated May 1, 1958 in Beaverton, Oregon by founders, Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of Tektronix, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator circuits. [1]
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 ...
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 ...