Wicks Home Organ (1939 Vintage)

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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2010

All Original and still working like a champ

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  • @praestant8 I guess Conn retrained me into not knowing for sure. I was looking at a link I found on Wendy Carlos dot com of an old theater organ magazine article of George Wright. He was putting together a theater organ and many of the pipes were beyond repair for one section. Apparently Gulbransen engineers were able to replicate electronically the missing pipes and even the best ears could not tell where the real pipes stopped & the transistorized individual oscillators began.Cool!

  • @paulj0557 It is a pipe organ... clearly.

  • yes would like to hear a longer pice played on this organ.. Thanks

  • Come on- i was enjoying this. Too short.

  • For an organ that old, it sure sounds great!

  • @Buzz0432 What is the tone generating system in this Wicks organ?

  • Welcome to the world of frustrated commenters. I see that none of the pertinent questions were answered. Is it electrostatic, is it electromechanical at all, is it tubes, what is it? The tone generating method is the most important thing about an organ. I have two Wurlitzer electrostatic reed organs that sound incredible. I actually prefer the free reed 4410 over my series 31 keyed reed. I really like the Attack tab on the 4410, it gives this organ a great punch for popular standards, I prefer.

  • Nice! I also own a Wicks 3-rk organ (I think it was marketed as the "Fuga") from 1938 -- still going after all these years and not a little abuse. These were solid, dependable little organs and IMHO a much better choice than the Hammond at the time.

  • @JurglyWurgly is it pipes or reeds?

  • @boaterray The song is a Paul Manz chorale prelude on the French Noel "What Fragrance This?"

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