Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1444 (1928)

Dayton Military Home / Dayton VA Medical Center: Protestant Chapel
4100 West Third Street
Dayton, OH

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2008-11-19 - Dulciana pipe markings (Photograph by Robert Gregory/Database Manager)

2008-11-19 - Console (Photograph by Robert Gregory/Database Manager)

2008-11-19 - Swell pipework (Photograph by Robert Gregory/Database Manager)

2008-11-19 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Robert Gregory/Database Manager)

2008-11-19 - Great pipework (Photograph by Robert Gregory/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
10 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol. VII p. 117 of the factory ledger and a list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - Rebuilt (1898 Pilcher for Soldier's home?) Reeds voiced by Kohler -Database Manager

2018-02-27 - Updated by ERIC J GASTIER, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Robert Gregory - Schantz Organ Company. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from ERIC J GASTIER. Source: Stoplist taken from console and pipework 11/19/08 2018-02-17

Dayton, OH
Dayton Military Home (now Dayton VA Medical Center)
Protestant Chapel

Organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons, op. 1443.5, 1928, II/11

GREAT                      SWELL                         PEDAL
8'  Open Diapason *        8'  Salicional                16' (Subbass)
8'  Doppelflote            8'  Stopped Diapason          8'  (Flute)
8'  Dulciana               4'  Flute Harmonic           
4'  (Principal)		   2'  Flautino
                           8'  Oboe
* basses in facade

Documents

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