Drastic changes in pitch, such as matching A=440 would incur an extra charge. Our services include:Ī complete tuning: The entire organ is tuned to its current pitch. If you notify us ahead of time, we will make every effort to accommodate your request, although we can suggest schedule options that will minimize your costs by grouping customers in one area. We will schedule our regular visits to fit your programming needs. Alternately, a Christmas season/Easter season schedule is often preferred. For the best maintenance of your organ, we recommend a semi-annual tuning schedule to match the change in seasons, such as in May or June, when the air conditioning first comes on, and in November or December, when the heat first becomes necessary. Regular visits also give our technicians the chance to foresee any large problems before they occur. Regular visits insure your organ is always kept in tune to match the change in seasons, and any problems are caught immediately and repaired. Regular tunings keep your organ in top playing condition.
Factory trained service teams stand ready to give your instrument service We offer: It will be hard for them to come back as a builder, I think, but we'll see whether or not it's impossible.Wicks Organ Company Service Teams have established a reputation for reliability over the last 80 years and we are continually working to improve that reputation with each of our customers. I'd much rather have a new Wicks than a Rodgers! I'm curious to see how this situation plays out in the next few years. cheaper end of things, some of their recent instruments were really quite nice. And with an industry as small as organ building, when one suffers, they all do (in a way). I'm sad to hear about Wicks, all things considered. gives a pretty good idea of the bass, even though the quality is pretty bad) There are a few videos online of services at Christ Church if anyone is just dying to hear the organ: (Bradley Welch is playing in both, and for whatever it's worth, I was in attendance at this service) I have a picture of it somewhere, but can't seem to find it now. When they built the sanctuary, they also built a chapel, which also has a Wicks combination organ (it's OK, but not nearly as nice as the sanctuary organ). If I remember, it had a lovely oak facade, but it's been a long time and I can't find any pictures online. When they built their current sanctuary, the former organ was sold to some Asian church.
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There are matching 3 manual consoles, but the one downstairs is hardly ever used.īefore this instrument, they had another Wicks, which was actually really nice as well. The rest is digital (and pretty good digital, too). The only stops that aren't digital are a few chunks of stops on the Great and a few stops here and there on the Sw, Ch, and Ped. Just to clarify, MOST of the Christ Church instrument is digital. I will never forget that big minor 7th chord!! They did a performance of the Duruflé Requiem with organ and orchestra, and I thought I was going to wet myself on first chord- the sound was so rich and warm, and the 32's rumbled without overbearing. I'm thoroughly convinced that the Christ Church organ is one of the best organs they ever built (at least recently). I was going to mention Christ Church's instrument after I read michaelhoddy's post.
I have no idea how it is being used (if it is). Our Klais IV/83 sounds great in there! The old building was bought by a Buddhist group and the Wicks was left in place. When we designed the new facility we hired one of the best Acoustical firms to work with the architects and achieved a smooth 2 1/2 second reverb and uniform sound distribution in the space. Although the instrument sounded fairly good, the Sanctuary was relatively large (sat 860) and high and the organ did not have enough oomph to fill the space the ceilings were at very acute angles and swallowed up the sound, too-almost no reverb at all. The Pedal had a 32' Bourdon, but it was in reality a Resultant using the Subbass 16' pipes. There were 3 Mixtures: a IV on the Great a III on the Swell and a II on the Pedal. It had 38 stops, but there was a lot of unification (I don't know how many ranks it actually had). The church I'm a member of here in the Dallas area had a Wicks in its former facility (we moved to a larger one in 2006).
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