

The organ for Christ Church was designed and
built by the Schlicker Organ Company, Buffalo, New York, with
University of Arizona Professor of Organ Roy Johnson serving as
consultant. It consists of 41 ranks and 2,211 individual pipes.
These voices are playable on a console of 3 manuals and pedal.
Slider chests are employed to attain good pipe
speech. The actual voicing of the pipes is done in the classic
manner with little or no nicking of the languids. This allows
the pipe speech and tone to be clean and clear and permits the
organ to have brilliance and power without being oppressively
loud.

The materials used in the manufacture of the
organ include oak for the console and visible casework, cherry
and poplar for the wood pipes, poplar for all wooden parts of
the instrument, tin and lead for the metal pipes. The large metal
pipes are made of pure annealed zinc. Other pipes contain metal
of 40–75% tin, depending on the type of stop.
Dr. Kathryn Snodgrass is the organist
at Christ Church United Methodist.