2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume III p. 64 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: $3000. Water Motor -Database Manager
M.P. Moller archives accessed through OHS Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
On April 15, 1947, M.P. Moller Co., Hagerstown, Maryland received the pipework and case from St. Mary's 1904 Pilcher organ. The Receiving Report lists what was received and what was to be done with each item. The items marked “reuse” are to be used in the new Moller opus 7497 for St Mary's. The case and façade pipes are to be reused but the façade pipes will not speak. The number following the rank name is the number of pipes. Items in parenthesis are editorial. This writer does not know what Moller meant by \"stock\" in regard to the 2 reeds. Also, the Pilcher is presumed to have been a tracker, which makes the presence of the 73 pipe Lieblich Bourdon confusing. Other records mention an existing 73 Lieblich rank to be reused in the new Moller. (1) 8' Salicional 61 reuse (2) 8' Dulciana 61 reuse (3) 8' Gamba 61 reuse (4) 4' Octave 53 reuse (1-8 en facade?) (5) 2' Fifteenth 61 reuse (6) 4' Diapason 47 reuse (1-14 en facade?) (7) 4' Harmonic Flute 61 reuse (8) 16' Lieblich Bourdon 73 reuse (9) 16' Pedal Bourdon 30 reuse (10) 34 front pipes reuse (27 speaking and 7 dummies?) (11) 8' Oboe 61 stock (12) 8' Vox Humana 61 stock (13) 8' V.D. Orchestra 56 (1-5 en facade?) scrap (14) 4' Gemshorn 61 scrap (15) 8' Diapason 61 scrap (16) 2 2/3' Twelfth 61 scrap (17) 8' Stopped Diapason 37 scrap (18) 16' Double Open Wood 30 scrap This gives a presumed specification of the 1904 Pilcher as follows Great 61 notes, unenclosed 8' Open Diapason rank (6) 8' Stopped Diapason (17?) 8' Viole d' Orchestra (13) 4' Octave (4) 4' Gemshorn (14) 2 2/3' Twelth (16) 2' Fifteenth (5) Swell 61 notes enclosed 16' Lieblich Bourdon (8) 8' Open Diapason (15) 8' Lieblich Gedeckt (8 ext?) 8' Dulciana (2) 8' Salicional (1) 4' Harmonic Flute (7) 8' Oboe (11) 8' Vox Humana (12) Pedal 30 notes unenclosed 16' Double Open Wood (18) 16' Bourdon (30) 16' Lieblich Gedeckt (8) Notes elsewhere in the archive indicate that the case was 11 feet deep. The great was in front of the swell. A width and height are not given. The console was attached. [Received from William Dunklin 2011-08-31.]
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