Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 433 (1902)

Residence: Dr. B.F. Brown: Living Room
Frankfort, KY

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

December, 2020 - Residence where the organ is installed (Photograph by Steve Brown, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2019-07-22 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

2019-03-26 - Pilcher #433 Build List (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

2019-03-26 - Pilcher list (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

2010-12-28 - Partially built organ (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

2019-07-28 - Patially built organ (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

2019-07-28 - Organ case in room (Photograph by Steve Brown/Steve Brown)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume III p. 25 of the Pilcher factory ledger and the list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - Original price: $1700 -Database Manager

2019-06-18 - Updated by Steve Brown, who maintains the organ. In addition Steve Brown gave this as a source of information: This organ is in my Dad\'s estate. Partly built. <br> <br> -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the original contract December 21, 2020

Frankfort, Kentucky
Residence: Steve Brown

HENRY PILCHER'S SONS, Opus 433, 1902 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                         COUPLERS (Mech. Finger Pistons)
16'  Bourdon                     49           Swell to Pedal            On / Off
8'   Open Diapason               61           Great to Pedal            On / Off
8'   Melodia                     61
8'   Dulciana                    61           Swell to Great            On / Off
4'   Octave                      61
2'   Super Octave                61
                                              FOOT TRUNDLES
                                              Great Piano - 
SWELL (Expressive)
8'   Violin Diapason             61           Great Forte -
8'   St. Diapason                61
8'   Salicional                  61
8'   Vox celeste           (tc)  49           PEDAL MOVEMENTS
4'   Flute Harmonique            61           Swell Expression             (bal.)
8'   Oboe                  (tc)  49
8'   Bassoon                     12
     Tremolo


PEDAL
16'  Bourdon                     27

     Bellows Signal


ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop     VOICES: 13     STOPS: 14     RANKS: 13     PIPES: 735


NOTES
The organ was originally built for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisville,
Kentucky.

It is free-standing and encased with an attached, projecting keydesk. Stops are as
drawknobs in terraced jambs on either side of the keydesk.

Sources: Pilcher opus list; copy of original contract on OHS Database


Residence: Dr. B.F. Brown
Frankfort, KY. 40601

Documents

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