First Presbyterian Church
100 E. Frederick Street
Staunton, VA
Images
1940-05-04 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photo from Pilcher's "Voice of Inspiration" sales brochure; image courtesy of George Nelson/Database Manager)
1938-08-08 - Organ Installation with John A. Gunther (Historical Image courtesy of Susan Broniak/Database Manager)
1938-08-08 - Organ Installation with Frank Gunther (Historical Image courtesy of Susan Broniak/Database Manager)
1938-08-08 - Organ Installation with Frank Gunther (Historical Image courtesy of Susan Broniak/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 33 stops
- 33 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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: Computerized/Digital
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Vol. VIII p. 152 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. -Database Manager
2005-04-07 - Original price: $10,850 -Database Manager
2008-04-23 - Updated through on-line information from charles furr. -- The console was rebuilt in the 1960s by the Klann organ company of Waynesboro, Virginia. The organ is now being refurbished by Wilhelmy Organ Builders of Staunton VA. -- key & stop action is electric pneumatic -Database Manager
2009-03-17 - Updated through on-line information from Bob Moody. -- Pipework and chests are original. Great was moved from behind the choir singers to a side chamber in 1961. Console was replaced with a Klann console in the 1980s. -Database Manager
2011-10-23 - Posted to PipeChat by Bob Moody: It has been rebuilt/altered twice. The first time was in 1962 when the Great was moved to a side chamber from its position behind the choir singers, to allow for more singers. Then two years ago when it was releathered and had its voicing restored to original (after years of having its trebles stifled.) -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist from Bob Moody Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Staunton, Virginia
First Presbyterian Church
Organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons, 1938
Pedal:
Contrabass 16
Bourdon 16
Gedeckt 16
Dulciana 16
Cello 8
Principal 8
Bourdon 8
Gedeckt 8
Cello 8
Dulciana 8
Octave 4
Flute 4
Bombarde 16
Trumpet 8
Great 8,4 Swell 8, 4 Choir 8
Choir:
Geigen Diapason 8
Concert Flute 8
Dulciana 8
Unda Maris 8 (tuned "ovah")
Flute d' Amour 4 (bright)
Nazard 2 2/3 (strong)
Flautino 2
English Horn 8
Tremolo
Choir 16, UO, 4, Swell 8, 4
Great:
Open Diapason 8
Harmonic Flute 8 (stringlike sort of in the bass)
Gemshorn 8 (it chiffs and always has)
Octave 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Mixture IV (strong)
Trumpet 8
Swell 16, 8, 4; Choir 8,4, Great 16, UO, 4
Swell:
Gedeckt 16
Diapason 8 (Really it's the second open but is in the swell)
Rohrflote 8 (it chiffs and always has)
Salicional 8
Vox Celeste 8
Aeoline 8
Harmonic Flute 4 (pretty loud)
Piccolo 2 (bright)
Oboe Horn 8
Vox Humana 8
Tremolo (separate trems for Vox Humana --faster-- and rest of swell -- not so fast)
Swell 16, UO, 4
3 Manual stopkey Klann Console with Peterson memory system. The Pilcher console was replaced
with the Klann to make more room for singers. The Pilcher had multiple pneumatics for combo
and was huge.
[Posted to PipeChat October 22, 2011]
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