Schlicker Organ Co.
1971

Two identical organs were shipped in the same delivery in September 1971, costing together $18,360.00. They were Schlicker's standard 4-stop/5-rank unit organ design, the most prolific of their many unit organ designs and especially popular as practice and ensemble instruments in academic institutions. The Arizona twins had two deviations from the standard design: the additional unification of the Gedeckt rank at 16'-pitch on the Great, and the provision of 3 freiekombination pistons. These variations were also specified for a 1976 7-rank unit instrument Schlicker built for the chapel of the Episcopal Cathedral in Phoenix, where noted organist/professor/composer David N. Johnson was Director of Music. He was also a professor of music at Arizona State and would have collaborated with Herman Schlicker for both the university and cathedral instruments. One of the two University instruments was de-accessioned in the early 2000s and relocated to the Mater Misericordiae Mission (R.C.) in Phoenix where it was installed without change. The situation of the second instrument needs to be ascertained.