Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1297 (1926)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
Palestine, TX

Images

2013-03-16 - Organ in Gallery (Photograph by Devin Jackson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
13 registers
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 (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol VI p. 231 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: $5000 -Database Manager

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

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console March 16, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Palestine, Texas
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church

Henry Pilcher's Sons   Opus 1297   1926

GREAT                                     SWELL                                         PEDAL                

8' Open Diapason                          8' Oboe                                       16' Bourdon
8' Melodia                                8' Vox Celeste                                16' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Dulciana                               8' Aeoline                                    8'  Dolce Flute
4' Flute D'Amour                          8' English Diapason                           
                                          8' Stopped Diapason                           
                                          4' Flute Harmonique
                                             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'
Great to Great   16'
Great to Great   4'
Swell to Swell   16'
Swell to Swell   4'
Swell Unison Off

 [Received from Aaron Jackson 2013-03-22.]

Documents

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