Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1204 (1924)

Greensboro College: Odell Memorial Hall
Greensboro, NC

Images

2020-08-10 - Building exterior (Photograph by Wikimedia.commons, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
26 stops
30 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume VI p. 138 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: $12,000. William Pilcher's list says Austin -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON September 1923

    Greensboro North Carolina
    Greensboro College
    Odell Memorial Hall

    Pilcher   Op. 1204   1924   3/26
    _____________________________________________

    GREAT                     SWELL
 8' Open Diapason    61   16' Bourdon          73
 8' Gamba            61    8' Open Diapason    73
 8' Grossflöte       61    8' Stopped Diapason 73
 4' Octave           61    8' Salicional       73
 4' Flute d'Amour    61    8' Vox Celeste      61
 8' Tuba             61    8' Aeoline          73
                           4' Flute Harmonic   73
    ECHO                   8' Cornopean        73
 8' Echo Flute       73    8' Orchestral Oboe  73
 8' Echo Aetheria    73       Tremolo
 4' Fernflöte        73
 8' Vox Humana       73       CHOIR
    Tremolo                8' Violin Diapason  73
    Cathedral Chimes 25    8' Clarabella       73
                           8' Flute Celeste    61
    PEDAL                  8' Dulciana         73
16' Open Diapason GT 12    4' Flauto Traverso  73
16' Bourdon          32    8' Clarinet         73
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW       Tremolo
 8' Flute            12
 8' Violoncello      GT

  [Received from Jeff Scofield November 22, 2022]

Documents

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