Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 968 (1918)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Augusta, GA

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

Images

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
23 stops
41 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information from Volume V p. 144 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

2014-12-05 - Updated through online information from John McCraney. -- The organ was rebuilt by J.E. Black in 1955; a new console was then added in the early 1960s. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from factory ledger quoted by Keith Shafer in his monograph "A History of the Organs of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Aug Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Augusta, Georgia
St. Paul's Episcopal Church  

Henry Pilcher' Sons, Incorporated  Op. 968  1918
 
      Cost: $6,500 reduced to 5,500 because Choir pipes
            were omitted (until 1955)

Electro-Pneumatic

PEDAL
16   Sub Bass (Wood)    44
16   Bourdon  (Swell)
 8   Flute    (from Sub Bass 16)

GREAT
 8   1st Open Diapason  73
 8   2nd Open Diapason  73
 8   Gamba              73
 8   Gross Flute        73
 8   Dulciana           73
 4   Octave             73          
     Great Super
     Swell Sub, Unison, Super
     Choir Sub, Unison, Super

SWELL (Enclosed)
16   Bourdon            73
 8   Open Diapason      73
 8   Aeoline            73
 8   Salicional         73
 8   Vox Celeste        61
 8   Stopped Diapason   73
 4   Flute Harmonic     73
     (Metal)
 8   Oboe               73
 8   Vox Humana         73
     Swell Sub, Super, Unison Separation
     Tremolo

CHOIR ([To be-?] enclosed in separate Swell box)
 8   Violin Diapason    Knob Engraving Only
 8   Dolcissimo          "
 8   Concert Flute       "
 4   Flute d'Amour       "
 8   Clarinet            "
     Choir Sub, Super, Unison Separation
     Swell Sub, Unison, Super
     Tremolo

PISTONS
     3 for Great and Pedal
     4 for Swell and Pedal
     2 for Choir and Pedal

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
     Gt. to Ped. Rev.
     All Couplers On
     Unison Couplers On--Others Off
     Sforzando
     Balanced Choir, Swell, Crescendo

1955 ADDITIONS (Memoral to the late Bernard
                Carpenter, Organist and Choirmaster)
CHOIR PIPES
 8   Diapason
 8   Stopped Flute
 8   Dolce
 4   Flute D'Amour
 8   Clarionet
     Tremolo

ADDED TO GREAT
 8   Trumpet

ADDED TO PEDAL
32   Resultant (One octave offset chest and pipes)
16   Bourdon [Independent or the octave for the Resultant-?]

CONSOLE:
Converted to stop keys in vertical jambs
Conversion to new combination mechanism
Moved to Gospel side of chancel

1961--New Klann Drawknob Console
      (Provided with engraved knobs for 18 proposed
       additional stops)

 


 [Received from John McCraney 2014-12-07.]

Documents

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