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Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1005.5 (1918)

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

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
• Console position: Keydesk Attached
• 2 manuals
• 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: 58 notes
• Pedal compass: 27 notes
• Pedal Type: Flat Straight
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
• Has combination trundles

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume V p. 176 of the Pilcher factory ledger. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - 1883 Hook & Hastings, Op. 1165 from the Blind Asylum in Austin, TX, installed here by Pilcher, with an electric blower for $1500. -Database Manager

2025-04-15 - 1931, relocated to Holy Ghost (now, Holy Spirit) Catholic Church in To Harbors, MN. -Jim Stettner

Documents

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

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #15927†* - Hook & Hastings Opus 1165 (1883)
• #5043 - Unknown Builder (1931)

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