Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 576 (1907)

St. Cecilia Convent: Chapel
8th Avenue N. & Clay St.
Nashville, TN

Images

c. 2001 - Building Exterior (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Older chapel (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Older Chapel (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Organ and case (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Console (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Console detail - right jamb (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

c. 2001 - Console detail with builder's nameplate (C. Kenneth Stein, photographybystein.com/C. Kenneth Stein)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
2 manuals
9 stops
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Was St.Cecilia's Academy -Database Manager

2005-04-13 - Tubular pneumatic pedal. Reconditioned by Milnar Organ Co., Eagleville, TN in 1978. -Database Manager

2011-08-08 - Updated through online information from john calvo. -- The organ is sill being used in a separate chapel and is in great condition. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i> Extant Historic Organs in Tennessee</i> compiled by John Brock 1992 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Nashville, Tennessee
   St. Cecilia Convent

   Pilcher   1907   2/7
   __________________________________________________________

   GREAT                SWELL                         PEDAL

8' Open Diapason     8' Violin Diapason    tc     16' Bourdon
8' Melodia    tc     8' Stopped Diapason   tc
8' Dulciana   tc     8' Stopped Diapason Bass
8' Unison Bass       4' Flute Harmonic
                        Tremolo

       [Received from Jeff Scofield November 22, 2016]