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