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Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 440 (1902)

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Macon, GA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2019-03-14 - Builder name plate (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1900s)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1910s)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
39 stops
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information from the Pilcher factory ledgers 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 - Original price: $8500. Echo played from Sw. El. Motor. Reb. 1937 as Op. 1829. -Database Manager

2005-07-24 - Online update from Dennis Huthnance -- The mechanical action was replaced by an electro-pneumatic action in the 1930s. This instrument was damaged by a violent storm in the late 1960s and the Great division became unplayable. In 1984 it was decided to replace the instrument by a new organ built by Schlicker. The original Pilcher organ case and console were retained in the new instrument along with the entire vox humana and several of the pedal division pipes. -Database Manager

Documents

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

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#36176 - Schlicker Organ Co. (1986)