*Note that St. Francis Xavier RC Church closed, and currently the building is the Buffalo Religious 
Arts Center, a museum that is home to many interesting pieces of art from closed Buffalo churches.  As 
of October 2010, the organ was playable and Donald Ingram (former employee of Schlicker) gave a 
recital.  The following day I got to play the organ for the first time and I must admit, I\'ve never 
had more fun with 16 ranks!

The following excerpt is taken from the article on St. Francis Xavier RC Church in the OHS 2004 
Buffalo, NY book.  

    \"In this, Schlicker\'s Op 2, the work is not that of an experimental reactionary, but a 
consientious regional builder gleaning current wisdom from *The American Organist* and such 
theorists as William H. Barnes.  For example, the manner in which the Swell Bourdon is unified - 
providing independent eight-foot and four-foot ranks, but extending the unison as a double, nazard, 
and piccolo - was personally extolled by Barnes, who would have doubtless also approved of the 
enclosed Great with a tremolo.  Hints of the future for Schlicker are few: a metal, not wood, 16\'
 Pedal Diapason and the fascinating Great 4\' Octave, made up of old and new pipes.  The new pipes 
are distinctly German in style of manufacture, with pressed-in Roman mouths.  The voicing features 
knife-cut nicks on the languid only: a departure from mainstream American voicing practices, 
and perhaps the first glimmer of a voicing ethic associated with Schlicker-trained voicers 
to this very day.
    Still, these are small details.  The instrument\'s overall effect betrays nothing so radical 
as a workaday product of its time, complete with an 8\' Vox Humana like warm icing.  The organ 
appears to be entirely untouched, apart from a second console Heritage Organ Company provided 
in the sanctuary area.  That same firm has carried out minor mechanical repairs.\"