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Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1543 (1931)

Images

2025-01-13 - Interior to rear; console up in left perch (D C Schroth, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-01-13 - Interior to front (D C Schroth, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-01-13 - Console (D C Schroth, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Movable Console
• 3 manuals
• 31 stops
• 16 registers
• 4 divisions
• Key action Type: Electrical
• Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
• Manual compass: 61 notes
• Pedal compass: 32 notes
• Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Computerized/Digital
• Has sequencer
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons
• Has tutti thumb pistons
• Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager

2007-02-27 - Updated through on-line information from Zach Young. -Database Manager

2011-08-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2025-01-13 - Completely cleaned by D C Schroth Organbuilders early 2025 due to smoke damage from a fire in a next-door building; solid-state system replaced at that time. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Scottish Rite Temple, Louisville, KY
1931 Henry Pilcher's Sons, Op. 1543
(Stoplist: Robert Coulter 1999)

Great(enc. with Choir)

Open Diapason - 8'
Clarabella - 8'
Viola - 8'
Octave - 4'
Hohl Flute - 4'
French Horn - 8'
Cathedral Chimes
Tremolo

Swell

Bourdon - 16'
English Diapason - 8'
Stopped Diapason - 8'
Salicional - 8'
Vox Celeste - 8'
Aeoline - 8'
Flute D'Amour - 4'
Quint - 2 2/3'
Piccolo - 2'
Oboe horn - 8'
Tremolo

Choir

Contra Viol - 16'
Viola - 8'
Concert Flute - 8'
Dulciana - 8'
Violina - 4'
Flauto Traverso - 4'
Nazard - 2 2/3'
Clarinet - 8'
Tremolo

Pedal

Open Diapason - 16'
Bourdon - 16'
Contra Viol - 16'
Lieblich Gedeckt - 16'
Dolce Flute - 8'
Cello - 8'

Couplers

Great to Pedal - 8,4
Swell to Pedal - 8
Choir to Pedal - 8'
Swell to Great - 16,8,4
Choir to Great - 16,8,4
Great to Great - 16,4
Great Unison Off
Great Seperation
Swell to Swell - 16,4
Swell Unison Off
Choir to Choir - 16,4
Choir Unison Off

SFZ, Coupler cancel, Compound Couplers on, Unison Couplers on, Great to Pedal reversables.
Great & Choir, Swell, & Crescendo pedals.
Wind, SFZ, Cresc. indicator lights.


Thanks to Stanley Crawley for his assistance.

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