Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1507 (1930)

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
13770 Gratiot Avenue
Detroit, MI

Images

2008-11-01 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Jameson, via Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
21 stops
24 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume VIII 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: $10,400 -Database Manager

2008-02-18 - Updated through online information from William M. Worden. -- In place but altered. Positiv added and other changes (including new console?) by Craig Nelson of Detroit, c. 1976. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON January 1930

    Detroit, Michigan
    Church of the Assumption

    Pilcher  Op. 1507  1930  3/21
    _____________________________________________

    GREAT                     CHOIR
 8' Open Diapason    61    8' Violin Diapason  73
 8' Grossflöte    PD 41    8' Melodia          73
 8' Gemshorn         61    8' Dulciana         73
 4' Octave           61    4' Flute d'Amour    73
 8' Trumpet (in CH)  61    8' Clarinet         73
                              Tremolo
    SWELL
16' Bourdon          73       PEDAL
 8' Open Diapason    73   16' Open Diapason    32
 8' Stopped Diapason 73   16' Bourdon          32
 8' Salicional       73   16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
 8' Voix Celeste     61    8' Dolce Flute      12
 8' Aeoline          73
 4' Flute Harmonic   73
 8' Cornopean        73
 8' Oboe             73
 8' Vox Humana       73
    Tremolo

    [Received from Jeff Scofield March 23, 2023]

Documents

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