Better Pipe Organ Database

H. Pilcher & Sons Opus 1301 (1926)

First Baptist Church
125 East Plant Street
Winter Garden, FL

Images

2013-01-31 - Chancel and Facade (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-31 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-31 - Console - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-31 - Console - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-31 - Console - Name Plate (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-31 - Stained Glass (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2011-06-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Ebyabe/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
32 stops
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information in Volume VI p. 234 of the Pilcher factory ledgers and the typed list of Pilcher organs by William E. Pilcher. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-06 - Original price: $11,850 -Database Manager

2012-11-10 - Updated through online information from Robert Walker. -- At some point in the organ's history, the console was mounted in an alternate case by the W. H. Reisner Mfg. Co. Inc. of Hagerstown, Maryland. No knowledge of the year or reason for this change is known. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console November 4, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Winter Garden, Florida
First Baptist Church

Henry Pilcher & Sons, Opus 1301, Built 1926

GREAT
Open Diapason 8
Clarabella 8
Gross Flute 8
Gamba 8
Dulciana 8
Flute D’ Amour 4
Octave 4
Super Octave 2
Mixture III
Chimes

SWELL
Bourdon 16
English Diapason 8
Rohr Flute 8
Aeoline 8
Salicional 8
Vox Celeste 8
Harmonic Flute 4
Oboe 8
Trumpet 8
Trumpet 4
Tremolo

CHOIR
Violin Diapason 8
Clarabella 8
Dulciana 8
Flute D’ Amour 4
Clarinet 8’
Tremolo

PEDAL
Diapason 16
Bourdon 16
Lieblich Gedeckt 16
Dolce Flute 8
Cello 8
Trumpet 8
Trumpet 4

 [Received from Robert Walker 2012-11-07.]

Documents

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