Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1262 (1925)

South Norfolk Baptist Church: Auditorium
1101 Chesapeake Ave
Chesapeake, VA

Images

2007-12-01 - Console (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Pulpit platform, choir loft, organ façade (Archival photograph; digital image by Joe Hughes./Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Choir loft, organ façade (screen in down position) (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Deagan chimes keyboard (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Swell stops (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Toe stud, swell and crescendo pedals (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Coupler tabs (Black tab = swell unison off) (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

2007-12-01 - Pedal and Great stops (Photograph by Joe Hughes/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
12 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol. VI p. 192 of the Pilcher factory ledger and a list of organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. Original price: $5650 -Database Manager

2005-04-07 - South Norfolk was an incorporated city from 1919 until the 1940s, when it became a section of Norfolk County. In 1963, South Norfolk formed the new City of Chesapeake. -Database Manager

2008-01-04 - Updated through on-line information from Joseph T. Hughes. -- Organ is playable, but wind chests need re-leathering, some console repair; currently not used; organist available but uses piano. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of Roman Lizak

    Chesapeake, Virginia
    South Norfolk Baptist Church

    Pilcher   Op. 1262   1925   2/12
    ____________________________________________

    GREAT                    SWELL
 8' Open Diapason    61   8' English Diapason 73
 8' Melodia          61   8' Stopped Diapason 73
 8' Dulciana         61   8' Salicional       73
 8' Gamba            61   8' Voix Celeste     61
 4' Flute d'Amour    61   8' Aeoline          73
                          4' Flute Harmonic   73
    PEDAL                 8' Oboe            syn
16' Bourdon          32
16' Lieblich Gedackt 12 SW
 8' Flute            12

   [Received from Jeff Scofield April 20, 2023]

Documents

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