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William H. Pilcher Opus 56 (1859)

St. Paul Episcopal Church
Olive & 17th
St. Louis, MO

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


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Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in the Pilcher factory ledgers, a handwritten list of organs and notes on the firm's history, and an emended copy of a list of organs from a catalog c. 1870. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - New church and organ dedicated June 1859. The church previously had new opus 26 (old no. 5)and old opus number 33 (no new opus number assigned). The building (including the organ?) was sold to First Christian Church in 1863 and the congregation disbanded by 1867. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - In the first lists, this organ was originally assigned number 36. The builder's name, as listed in the history of the church, is "Messrs. Pilcher & Brother." -Database Manager

2016-01-24 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. <br>In Bynum Petty's book, this organ is identified with opus numbers 54 and 57. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

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

William Pilcher, Op. 36, June 1859

Swell: C-g3, 56 notes, enclosed

1. Hautboy 39
2. Cornet [3 ranks] 117
3. Flute 39
4. Principal 56 
5. Dulciana 39
6. Stop. Diap. Treb. 39
7. Stop. Diap. Bass 17
8. Open Diapason 56
9. Bourdon 39

Choir: C-g3, 56 notes

10. Cremona 39
11. Piccolo 56
12. Violina 39
13. Principal 56
14. Viol d' Amour 39
15. Keraulophon 39
16. St. Diap. Treb. 39
17. St. Diap. Bass 17
18. Open Diapason 56
19. Alarm

Great: C-g3, 56 notes

20. Trumpet 39
21. Sesquialtera [3 ranks] 168
22. Fifteenth 56
23. Twelfth 56
24. Night Horn 39
25. Principal 56
26. Stop. Diap. Treb. 39
27. Stop. Diap. Bass 17
28. Gamba 39
29. Open Diap. No. 2 39
30. Open Diap. No. 1 56

Pedal: C-e, 17 notes

31. Trumpet 17
32. Violoncello 17
33. Stopt Diapason 17
34. Open Diapason 17

Couplers: 

35. Great & Swell
36. Choir & Swell
37. Great & Choir
38. Pedal & Swell
39. Pedal & Great
40. Pedal & Choir

"Gothic case grained oak.  Open Diapason entire in front." 



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

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