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Henry Pilcher (1853)

St. Paul Episcopal Church
5th & Wash (not Washington - now Carr)
St. Louis, MO

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


Consoles

Main


Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in the Pilcher factory ledgers and a handwritten list of organs and notes on the firm's history. For more information see the document referenced below. In the first lists, this organ was originally assigned number 5. The number 26 was assigned in the revised opus numbering to the instrument in its new home in Lafayette. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - The organ was sold to St. John's Episcopal, Lafayette, IN c. 1856, when the church purchased old Op. 33 (no new opus number assigned) in January 1859 and new opus number 56 in June 1859. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - The church building was sold in 1856, and land purchased for a new building at the southwest corner of Olive and 17th. -Database Manager

2005-07-23 - The five lowest notes in the pedal repeat the upper five (12 pipes only). -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist copied from a photocopy of the factory specifications supplied by the late Elizabeth Towne Schmitt Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Saint Louis, Missouri

Henry Pilcher Op. 5, Sept. 1853

Great: C-f3, 54 notes

1. Open Diapason 54 (5 lowest wood)
2. Stopt Diapason Bass 17
3. Stopt Diapason Treble TF 37
4. Principal 54
5. Twelfth 54
6. Fifteenth 54
7. Night Horn or Flute TF 37
8. Cornet 3 ranks TF 111

Swell: C-f3, 54 notes

9. Dulciana TF 37
10. Stopt Diapason Bass 17
11. Stopt Diapason Treble 37
12. Principal 56 [sic., should be 54] lowest oct. wood
13. Hautboy TF 37

Pedal: C-e, 17 notes

14. Open Diapason 12 "largest pipe GG 12 ft. 5 lower notes repeating 5 upper"

Couplers:

15. Great & Swell
16. Pd. & Sw.
17. Pd. & Gt.
18. Bellows

Case Gothic grained oak.

 [Received from John Speller 2014-07-05.]

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