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Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1456 (1928)

Methodist Episcopal South
Tuskegee, AL

Images


2007-07-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2007-07-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2007-07-26 - Chancel and Façade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2007-07-26 - Chancel and Façade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2007-07-26 - Pedals (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2007-07-26 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

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Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information in Volume VII p. 138 of the Pilcher factory ledger and a list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. See the document referenced below. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Typed stoplist and notes from Jim Cook Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Tuskegee, Alabama
Methodist Episcopal South / Tuskegee United Methodist Church

Organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons, 1928

STOPLIST

Rocker tablets above swell manual -- listed in console order

(Swell)

BOURDON           16'
STOPPED DIAPASON   8'
VIOLIN DIAPASON    8'
VIOL D'ORCHEST     8'
ECHO SAL'C'ONAL    8'
DOLCE FLUTE        8'
NAZARD             2 2/3'
FLAUTINA           2'
OBOE               8'
TREMOLO
SWELL TO SWELL    16'
SWELL TO SWELL     4'
SWELL UNISON OFF

(Pedal)

BOURDON           16'
LIEBLICH GEDECKT  16'
DOLCE FLUTE        8'
GEDEKCT            8'
GREAT TO PEDAL     8'
SWELL TO PEDAL     8'

(Great)

DULCIANA (TEN. C) 16'
OPEN DIAPASON      8'
DULCIANA           8'
MELODIA            8'
OCTAVE DIAPASON    4'
HOHL FLUTE         4'
CATHEDRAL CHIMES
SWELL TO GREAT     8'
SWELL TO GREAT    16'
SWELL TO GREAT     4'
GREAT TO GREAT    16'
GREAT TO GREAT     4'


Original EP Unit chests.
Swell Dolce Flute, marked 8', is actually a 4' extension of the 
Lieblich/Stopped Diapason unit, which also provides the Nazard and Flautina
on the Swell and the Lieblich Gedeckt and Gedeckt in the Pedal.
The 8' Dolce Flute in the Pedal is an extension of the 16' Bourdon.

Three pistons for each manual (and pedal), on key slips.
One reversible toe stud (Great to Pedal) to left of Swell pedal.

Indicator lights (on the right) for wind and crescendo pedal.
First 34 pipes of 8' Open Diapason in facade; remainder facade pipes are dummies.

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