Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1927 (1940)

Christ Church, Episcopal
900 Broadway
Nashville, TN

Images

2003-05-01 - 1958 Moller console to right (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2003-05-01 - 1958 Moller console to left (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2003-05-01 - East chamber and façade pipes (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2003-05-01 - West chamber, façade pipes and console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-05-06 - Building exterior (Photograph by Wikimedia.commons, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
36 stops
38 registers
4 divisions

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume VIII p. 179 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: $7298 Rebuild -Database Manager

2005-08-23 - On-line update from Melvin Potts -- Organ was rebuild of Farrand & Votey installed in church. Moller console added 1958; more additions/rebuilding in later years. Organ was moved to college in Campbellsville KY. Christ Church Cathedral acquired Lively-Fulcher organ 2003. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: The Diapason, November 1940

       Nashville, Tennessee
       Christ Church, Episcopal

       Farrand & Votey   Op. 744   1894   3/27
       Pilcher           Op. 1927  1940   3/39
       ____________________________________________

       GREAT                    SWELL
   16' Open Diapason  61    16' Bourdon          73
    8' Open Diapason  61     8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Gamba          61     8' Stopped Diapason 73
    8' Doppelflöte    61     8' Salicional       73
    8' Gemshorn       61 n   8' Voix Celeste     73 n
    4' Octave         61     8' Aeoline          73 n
2 2/3' Twelfth        61     4' Gemshorn         73
    2' Fifteenth      61     4' Flute Harmonique 73
  III  Mixture       183   III  Cornet          183
    8' Trumpet        61 r   8' Trompette        73 n
       Chimes         CH     8' Oboe             73 r
                             8' Vox Humana       61 r
       PEDAL                    Tremmolo
   16' Open Diapason  32
   16' Bourdon        32        CHOIR
   16' Violone        32 n   8' Geigen Principal 73
    8' Cello          32     8' Concert Flute    73
    8' Flute          CH n   8' Flute Celeste    61 n
    4' Octave         32 n   8' Dolce            73
    2' Super Octave   12 n   8' Unda Maris       61 n
   16' Trombone       32 n   4' Rohrflöte        73
       Chimes         CH     2' Harmonic Piccolo 61
                             8' Clarinet         73 b
    b  new bass; revoiced       Chimes           20
    n  new
    r  revoiced

       [Received from Jeff Scofield April 3, 2022]

Documents

(1940-11-01) Write-Up from THE DIAPASON November 1940 Stoplist and additional information -Jeff Scofield