Scott Wick
Owner - Business Administrator
Scott Wick is the 3rd generation family member of the famous Wicks Organ Company. In May of 2019 Scott purchased the assets of Wicks Organ Company and continues in the organ business under the new name Wicks Organ LLC. At an early age Scott developed his passion for the organ business working in the shop and servicing organs when school was not in session. Scott graduated from SIU-C in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics and Business. He has enjoyed working in the numerous departments of the business learning many of the different trades. While working in the Research and Development department Scott, developed the optical-key system which is still used today. He was awarded a patent for a new method of manufacturing reed shallots continuing the Wicks tradition of developing new innovations. Some of Scotts favorite aspects of the organ business are sales and installations. Scott currently serves as the president of Wicks Organ LLC.
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Cory Wright
Sales & Proposals
A native of Tonawanda, NY, he began in our service dept. and now works directly with customers on new projects and proposals.
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Lynn Dermody
Administrative Assistant
Lynn has been working in the office at Wicks since 2017. As an administrative assistant, she focuses her attention on customer inquiries, correspondence, contracts, and maintaining the organ files. She enjoys assisting customers with their inquiries, and especially doing historical research about their Wicks pipe organ.
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Darrin Urbonas
Finisher
Starting with raw materials, Darrin spends his time, like a chef, crafting many custom recipes for each project he works on. You will find no cans of store-bought stains here. All of our stains are custom blended inhouse, in order to achieve a nearly seamless match to samples provided. Working either from a new sample provided by the customer, or utilizing over 100 years’ worth of inhouse samples for over 6400 instruments. Darrin takes his craft seriously, and his high-quality finishes are present in each project that leaves our finishing dept.
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Walker Ostler
Shop & Service Technician
Originally from Idaho, Walker began working as a producer at a television news station after receiving his degree in art. But TV news was no match to the lure of pipe organs, and Walker joined Wicks in April of 2019. Aside from music, his other interests include history and aviation.
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Zachary Simon
Shop & Service Technician
Every shop has a crazy organ nut, and Zach is ours. Zach joined the staff at Wicks in 2019 as a Tuner/Technician, having been an intern with Wicks during high school. He is passionate about pipe organ building, and has been since he toured Wicks Organ Company at the age of 12. He has attended the Pipe Organ Encounter-Technical three times, recently completed his own house organ, and is a proud Eagle Scout.
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Dieter Goldstein
Shop and Service Dept
Dieter has not sat for a photo or offered a bio yet, we think he's embarrassed.
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Steve Ballance
Wood Worker Extraordinaire and Restoration Specialist
Steve comes to Wicks with an extensive wood working and musical instrument restoration background. A wonderful and capable addition to our team! Maybe someday Steve will share a little biography with us, and maybe a photo!
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Hayden Rhodes
Shop & Service Technician
Hayden has not provided a bio or photo........yet. Will he? Check back to find out!!
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Jeff White
Shop & Service Apprentice
Jeff White joined Wicks Organ LLC in September of 2024. He has long dreamed of working in the pipe organ building industry. Jeff is also Minister of Music and Organist at Trinity Lutheran Church in St Louis. He earned a Master’s degree from Concordia University Wisconsin in Sacred Music with an emphasis in Organ, and is certified Colleague with the American Guild of Organists. In addition to organ work, Jeff is a 20+ year veteran in the Gateway Ringers, an auditioned community handbell ensemble, is a former Dean of, the AGO St Louis Chapter, and is looking forward to serving Wicks customers.
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