Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 618 (1908)

First Christian Church
1419 Government St
Mobile, AL

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information in Vol. III p. 159 of the Pilcher factory ledgers. See the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-06 - Original price: $1250. See Op. 567 -Database Manager

2013-10-24 - Updated through online information from Mark Moorehead. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console October 17, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

GREAT

8      Open Diapason     61 pipes
8      Melodia           61 pipes
8      Dulciana          61 pipes

SWELL

8      Aoeline           61 pipes
8      Stop'd Diapason   49 pipes
8      Violin Diapason   49 pipes
8      Unison Bass       12 pipes
4      Harmonic Flute    61 pipes

PEDAL

16     Pedal Bourdon     30 pipes


Balanced Swell Pedal
Signal Stop

COUPLERS

8      Great to Pedal
8      Swell to Pedal
8      Swell to Great
4      Swell to Great Super Octaves

 [Received from Mark Moorehead 2013-10-19.]

Documents

(2005-04-05) Pilcher Organs Summary of Pilcher Sources by Soosie Schmitt -Database Manager