Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1502 (1929)

Grace Lutheran Church
Fort Worth, TX

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
16 stops
15 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 (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol VIII p. 19 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: $3,900 -Database Manager

2012-11-22 - Updated through online information from Aaron Jackson. -Database Manager

2013-03-22 - Updated through online information from Aaron Jackson. -Database Manager

2013-07-05 - Updated through online information from Aaron Jackson. -Database Manager

2014-02-06 - Updated through online information from Aaron Jackson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console July, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Fort Worth, Texas

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1502, December 1929

GREAT                              SWELL                                  PEDAL

8' Open Diapason     73 Pipes      16'    Bourdon             97 Pipes    16' Bourdon               32 Pipes
8' Melodia           73 Pipes      8'     Horn Diapason       73 Pipes    16' Leiblich Gedeckt(Sw)  32 Notes
8' Aeoline(Sw)       73 Notes      8'     Gedeckt(Bour.)      73 Notes    8'  Dolce Flute(Sw)       32 Notes
4' Hohl Flute(Mel.)  61 Notes      8'     Aeoline             73 Pipes
                                   8'     Salicional          73 Pipes
                                   4'     Flute D'Amour(Bour.)73 Notes
                                   2 2/3' Quint(Bour.)        61 Notes
                                   2'     Flautino(Bour.)     61 Notes
                                          Tremolo


COUPLERS                            COMBINATIONS                        

Great to Pedal   8'                 Great   1-2-3
Swell to Pedal   8'                 Swell   1-2-3
Swell to Great   16'                Pedal   1-2
Swell to Great   8'                 
Swell to Great   4'
Swell to Swell   16'
Swell to Swell   4'
Swell Unison Off
Great to Great   16'
Great to Great   4'
Great Unison Off

 [Received from Aaron Jackson 2012-11-20.]

Documents

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