Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons (1901)

Dexter Avenue United Methodist
301 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL

Images

2017-01-19 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Matthew Edwards/Database Manager)

2017-01-19 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Matthew Edwards/Database Manager)

2017-01-19 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Matthew Edwards/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Great stop trundles (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Pedalboard, kneeboard, Swell shoe, hook-downs (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Pipes: Great chorus (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Façade pipes (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Full façade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2004-10-18 - Pipes: Swell (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
19 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1982 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Still plays rather well. (1982) -Database Manager

2007-01-13 - The two pedal stops play on a slider chest with EP valves attached; may have been relocated at a later date. -Database Manager

2017-01-22 - Updated by James R. Stettner, listing this web site as a source of information: http://database.organsociety.org/. <br> <br>The three standard unison coupler take the form of On/Off mechanical pistons in the Swell keyslip. The Sw. to Gt. at Octaves coupler is drawknob under the Great stops. The pedalboard is flat and parallel with radiating sharps. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Matthew Edwards. Source: Stoplist taken from photos of the console and memory of visit 2017-02-01

Montgomery, AL
Dexter Avenue United Methodist

Organ by Henry Pilcher's Sons

Swell (left stop jamb):
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Eoline
8' Salicional
8' Violon Diapason
4' Flute Harmonique
4' Gemshorn
8' Bassoon
8' Oboe
Tremolo (right stop jamb)

Great (right stop jamb):
8' Open Diapason
8' Dolce flute
8' Viol d'Gamba
8' Doppel Flote
4' Octave
3' Octave Quint
2' Super Octave

Pedal (left stop jamb):
16' Bourdon
8' Flute
16' Bourdon Bass
16' Bourdon Treble

Couplers:
Swell to Great (thumb buttons)
Swell to Pedal (thumb buttons)
Great to Pedal (thumb buttons)
Swell to Great at Octaves (right stop jamb)

Mechanical Swell Expression Shoe
Divisional cancels (foot levers)