2005-04-06 - Identified through information in Volume VII p. 132 of the Pilcher factory ledger and list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager
2005-04-06 - Index to ledger says reeds voiced by Syl Kohler. Photo Archives 4093. -Database Manager
2009-12-05 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Unknown if this instrument may have incorporated any material from the previous 1907 Murray Harris organ - which itself was a rebuild and enlargement of the 1887 Hook & Hastings built for the previous edifice. -Database Manager
2011-08-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- When the congregation moved to Mission Valley in 1964, the Pilcher was stored until 1971, at which time it was rebuilt and enlarged to 41 ranks by L. W. Blackinton & Associates and installed in the rear gallery of the new sanctuary; Blackinton had installed a 12-rank Chancel organ in 1967; in 1986, Blackinton removed the organs and rebuilt and enlarged them to 108 ranks, with 32 ranks in the Chancel and 76 ranks in the Gallery, including a Festival Trumpet donated by Blackinton in memory of his parents in 2010. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> December 1928 Date not recorded
San Diego, California
First Methodist Church
Pilcher Op. 1453 1929 3/28
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GREAT CHOIR
16' Dbl Open Diapason 73 8' English Diapason 73
8' Open Diapason 73 8' Concert Flute 73
8' Grossflöte 73 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
8' Gross Gamba 73 4' Flute d'Amour 73
8' Melodia 73 2' Piccolo 61
8' Dulciana 73 8' Clarinet 73
4' Octave 73 Tremolo
2' Super Octave -- Chimes EC
8' Tuba 73 Harp 49
Tremolo
Chimes EC ECHO (prepared for)
Harp CH
8' Echo Flute
SWELL 8' Viol Aetheria
8' Vox Angelica
16' Bourdon 73 4' Fern Flute
8' Viol Diapason 73 8' Vox Humana
8' Stopped Diapason 73 Tremolo
8' Salicional 73 Cathedral Chimes 20
8' Voix Celeste 61
8' Aeoline 73 PEDAL
4' Harmonic Flute 73
2' Flautino 61 32' Resultant --
8' Cornopean 73 16' Open Diapason 32
8' Oboe 73 16' Bourdon 32
8' Vox Humana 73 16' Violone GT
Tremolo 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
16' Contra Viol 12
8' Violoncello 32
8' Dolce Flute 12
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