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1967 Schlicker - Clarendon UMC [Back to Library]
| Producer: | Coral Pipes |
| Builder: | Schlicker |
| Country: | United States |
| Style: | |
| Manuals: | 3 |
| Pedalboard: | Yes |
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| Date Built: | 1967 |
Description: |
Clarendon United Methodist Church was founded in 1901 in Arlington, Virginia. Its beautiful 1967 Schlicker organ is largely in its original state with only a few improvements added over the years. The original Schlicker part of the instrument remains tonally unaltered. This organ is built in the typical Schlicker style with bright principal choruses and mixtures well suited for Baroque and Modern music, though with appropriate registration, the organ can play a wide range of literature. The church’s first building was constructed in 1906 and was located a few blocks away from its present location. The current sanctuary was completed in 1941 and the rest of the building was added on in 1951. Clarendon United Methodist’s first organ was installed by the Pilcher organ company in 1941. The organ was purchased as a gift and included a set of chimes, which are still in the organ today. Little else is known about the Pilcher organ. In the late 1950s, the church hired an organ consultant, Dr. Harold Gleason, to evaluate the state of the organ, and the consultant determined that the organ no longer fit the congregation's needs and a new organ was needed. Nearly ten years later, the Music Committee responsible for the new organ chose the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York, to build the church’s new instrument. The new pipe organ was designed in collaboration by Herman Schlicker and Dr. Gleason. It was installed in 1967 and inaugurated in a series of four concerts played by Frederick Swann, Oswald Ragatz, David McBride, and John Wigent. Shortly after, in 1971, Reilly Lewis, founder of the Washington Bach Consort and music director of the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral, took the position of Organist and Choirmaster. When the Schlicker organ was installed in 1967, it consisted of 39 ranks, the chimes from the Pilcher organ, and several stops that were prepared for future installation. Over the next couple of years, pipes for the prepared stops were added. The next major change occurred in 1990 with the addition of the all-brass en chamade Antiphonal Trumpet built by the English firm F.J. Rodgers and installed by the Di Gennaro-Hart Organ Company. In the early 2000s, four digital stops were added to better equip the organ for more styles of music. These include the Pedal Bourdon 32, Contra Posaune 32, Double Open Wood 16, and the Swell Trumpet 8. These digital stops have all been recreated in the sample set with recordings from other pipe organs of similar style. Additionally, in the pipe organ, the Pedal Principal 16 was extended to 61 notes such that it could play in the Great as the Prestant 16. This too has been recreated in the sample set. The organ now contains 47 ranks of pipes along with the digital stops. |
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