Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 550 (1906)

Hebrew Union Temple
504 Main Street
Greenville, MS

Images

2021-08-28 - Windows (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Ray Smithee)

2021-08-28 - Interior (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Ray Smithee)

2021-08-28 - Organ facade at front of sanctuary (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Ray Smithee)

2021-08-28 - Exterior (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Ray Smithee)

Unknown - Sanctuary (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Nameplate (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Keydesk (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Left jamb (Photograph by Ray Smithee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Right jamb (Photograph by Ray Smithee/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
11 stops
11 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 trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Free-standing and encased in a front gallery. 3-sectional facade containing 31 gold-painted pipes arranged: 5-21-5. Keydesk attached and projecting with stops as drawknobs in terraced jambs. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Cost $1910. Restored 1980. -Database Manager

2021-08-28 - i play this instrument for High Holy Days services. It is well maintained and everything works. Has an electric blower that supplies wind. Was originally hand blown. The organ may in fact be a transplant as the year 1895 is found in the chamber on parts of the organ. The presence of a celeste rank and a mild 8' Diapason make it non typical of Pilcher's from 1906. Same for the Doppleflute, as most of these organs from Pilcher in the early 1900s had a Melodia. -Ray Smithee

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database (Stoplist: Pilcher ledger). Date not recorded

Greenville, Mississippi
Hebrew Union Temple, 

Henry Pilcher's Sons, Op. 550, 1906


     GREAT (61 notes)
Gr.  8'  Open Diapason           61  metal
Gr.  8'  Doppel Flute            61  wood  [Doppel Floete in ledger]
Gr.  8'  Dulciana                61  metal
Gr.  4'  Octave                  61  metal


     SWELL (Expressive)(61 notes)
Sw.  8'  Stop'd Diapason         61  wood
Sw.  8'  Oboe Gamba              61  metal
Sw.  8'  Aeoline                 61  metal
Sw.  8'  Vox Celeste       (TC)  49  metal
Sw.  4'  Flute Traverso          61  wood & metal
         Tremolo


     PEDAL (30 notes)
Ped. 16' Sub Bass                30  wood
Ped. 16' Bourdon                 30  wood  [Soft Bourdon in ledger]


COUPLERS (As pistons in Sw. keyslip):
Swell to Pedal                   On / Off
Great to Pedal                   On / Off

Swell to Great                   On / Off
Swell to Great Super Octaves     On / Off


FOOT TRUNDLES  (Ledger shows two double acting pedal movements)
Great Piano - 8' Mel., 8' Dulc.

Great Forte - 8, 8, 8, 4  [full]


PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression          (bal.)


ACCESSORIES
Signal  [Bellows]
Wind indicator
Water Motor


[Updated/Corrected by James R. Stettner; Aug. 28, 2021]