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Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1166 (1923)

St. Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral
5100 Ross Ave.
Dallas, TX

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
38 stops
48 registers
4 divisions
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol VI p. 109 of the Pilcher factory ledgers 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 - Original price: $20,000 -Database Manager

2008-07-05 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Swell rebuilt by Sipe, 1960s. Great and Pedal rebuilt as Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1529 (1970). -Database Manager

2011-08-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2017-05-21 - Updated by Damin Spritzer, who has heard or played the organ. New 16 Principal stop added to the Great -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from The Diapason January 1924 Date not recorded

    Dallas, Texas
    St. Matthew's Cathedral, Episcopal

    Pilcher   Op. 1126   1923   3/40
    _________________________________________

    GREAT                    SWELL

 8' 1st Open Diapason    16' Bourdon
 8' 2nd Open Diapason     8' Open Diapason
 8' Grossflöte            8' Stopped Diapason
 8' Gamba                 8' Viol d'Orchestre
 8' Gemshorn              8' Viol Celeste
 4' Octave                8' Salicional
 4' Waldflöte             8' Vox Celeste
16' Ophicleide            8' Quintadena
 8' Tuba                  8' Aeoline
 4' Clarion               4' Flute Harmonic
    Tremolo               4' Viol d'Orchestre
    Sub                   2' Flautino
    Unison Off          III  Cornet
    Super                 8' Cornopean
    Chimes                8' Oboe
                          8' Vox Humana
    CHOIR                    Tremolo
                             Sub
16' Contre Viol              Unison Off
 8' Horn Diapason            Super
 8' Concert Flute
 8' Flute Celeste            PEDAL
 8' Viola
 8' Dulciana             32' Resultant
 4' Flute d'Amour        16' Open Diapason
 2' Piccolo              16' Sub Bass
 8' Clarinet             16' Bourdon
 8' French Horn          16' Lieblich Gedeckt
    Tremolo              16' Contre Viol
    Sub                   8' Grossflöte
    Unison Off            8' Dolce Flute
    Super                 8' Violoncello
    Chimes               16' Ophicleide
 8' Violin Diapason       8' Tuba
    (in choir room)

[Received from Jeff Scofield September 17, 2019]

Documents

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

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