Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-04-06 - Identified through information from Volume VI p. 112 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 - Original price: $7,500 -Database Manager
2007-07-12 - Updated through on-line information from Ken Sanders. -- "One of the [two Pilcher] organs [at this address] was sold to the late Jim Williams, famous from <i>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</i>. He installed it in his mansion - now called Mercer House, at 429 Bull St. in the 3rd floor ballroom where it still exists, though its condition is unknown. The home is now owned by his sister Dorothy Kingery. The other organ was sold to a man — name unknown — in Augusta, Georgia with the intention of installing it in the city's Bell Auditorium. They got so far as to knock holes in the walls on either side of the stage for the pipes, but that's as far as the project got. I don't know what happened. I think the project proved to be un-doable either from a financial side or the fact that the organ was just too small for such a large space. The fate of that organ is unknown." -Database Manager
2009-02-03 - Updated through on-line information from John Tanner. -- One of the Pilcher organs did make it to Bell Auditorium, in Augusta. The Pilcher was installed on one side and parts of a Wurlitzer were installed on the other side. The organ was never successful and Virgil Fox was even asked to do a program there but refused to when he discovered the condition of the instrument. Charles Walker of Griffin Georgia (has since passed away) removed the organ, in the 60's or early 70's. the organ has since been broken up. -Database Manager
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