Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol VI p. 16 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: $4,000 Note in William Pilcher's list: rats ruined organ -Database Manager
2006-10-28 - Updated through online information from Bruce Power. -- Week of October 15, 2006 I viewed this organ. Theoretically, this organ was at Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal, and at that time not the cathedral) previous to the Aeolian/Skinner. It was removed after a fire. -Database Manager
2008-05-11 - Updated through online information from Shawn Sanders. -- The instrument has been donated to another Episcopal Church in the Diocese where it is planned to be incorporated with another Pilcher instrument. Will update as progress is made. Opus 1049 is missing a motor on the blower, making it unplayable. There is evidence of rodent presence throughout the organ. As Bruce Power mentions in a previous documentation, the organ was believed to have been originally installed at Christ Church, Houston. If this information is accurate, upon the organ's move to the Holy Cross site the tubular pneumatic action was updated to the typical Pilcher electro-pneumatic action on the Swell side, and unified with direct electric type valves on the Great side. -Database Manager
2009-07-31 - Updated through online information from Bruce Power. -- Through research in the Texas Room of the Houston downtown library - library holds archives of Christ Church Cathedral (Houston, TX): previous to the Cathedral's A/S organ, was a Hutchings-Votey, not a Pilcher. I am currently trying to research a date of installation and/or find a Hutchings-Votey opus list. I am in the midst of this research. I will keep this updated. This particular instrument, the Pilcher, was not at Christ Church Cathedral, as rumored. -Database Manager
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