Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 967 (1918)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
500 Webster Avenue
Waco, TX

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

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1915)/Database Manager)

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel ((1960's) Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

2015-08-03 - Stained Glass Window (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

2015-07-19 - Church Exterior (Photograph by T. Bradford Willis/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church exterior, ca. 1922. (Vintage postcard, courtesy of T.Bradford Willis, DDS/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
30 stops
34 registers
4 divisions
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol V p. 142 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

2010-12-16 - Updated through on-line information from T. Bradford Willis, DDS. -Database Manager

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

Stoplist

Stoplist provided by Bynum Petty Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Waco, Texas
    First Baptist Church

    Pilcher   Op. 967   1918   3/30
    _________________________________________________

    GREAT                         SWELL

16' Open Diapason     61 a    16' Bourdon          73
 8' 1st Open Diapason 61       8' Open Diapason    73
 8' 2nd Open Diapason 61       8' Stopped Diapason 73
 8' Gamba             61       8' Salicional       73
 8' Viola             61       8' Viole Anglica    73 b
 8' Gross Flute       61       8' Vox Celeste      61 b
 4' Octave            61       4' Violina          73
 4' Flute Harmonic    61       4' Traverse Flute   73
 2' Super Octave      61       2' Flageolet        73
 8' Trumpet           61       8' Cornopean        73
                               8' Oboe             73
    CHOIR                      8' Vox Humana       73 b
                                  Tremolo
 8' Violin Diapason   61
 8' Clarabella        61          PEDAL
 8' Dulciana          61
 4' Flute d'Amour     61      32' Resultant        --
 2' Piccolo Harmonic  61      16' Open Diapason    32
 8' Clarinet          61      16' Bourdon          32
    Tremolo                   16' Lieblich Gedacht SW
                               8' Open Flute (Diap)12
                               8' Flute Gedacht    12

 a  1-7 stopped wood
 b  These stops to be enclosed together in a separate
    swell box as an Echo Organ played from the Swell

       [Received from Jeff Scofield July 20,2015]

Documents

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