Henry Pilcher's Sons
Opus 1229, 1924
First Presbyterian Church
Chancel
1100 Austin Avenue
Waco, TX, US
20 Ranks - 1,293 Pipes
Instrument ID: 17758 ● Builder ID: 2792 ● Location ID: 16162
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2 Manuals 4 Divisions20 StopsStop Layout: Unknown
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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Database Manager on August 16th, 2016:
Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis, DDS. <br>There is an engraved brass plate on the chancel screen near the present organ console. It reads: This organ is presented by the members of the Higginson Family in loving memory of Mrs. Mattie McElroy Higginson and Green B. Higginson, December 25th AD 1923.
Updated through online information from T. Bradford Willis, DDS. <br>There is an engraved brass plate on the chancel screen near the present organ console. It reads: This organ is presented by the members of the Higginson Family in loving memory of Mrs. Mattie McElroy Higginson and Green B. Higginson, December 25th AD 1923.
Database Manager on December 15th, 2010:
Updated through on-line information from T. Bradford Willis -- The organ had 3 main divisions (great, swell, and pedal) and an antiphonal division in the balcony/gallery.
Database Manager on April 7th, 2005:
Identified through information in Vol VI p. 162 of the Pilcher factory ledgers and a list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below.
Database Manager on April 7th, 2005:
Original price: $10,000 Also Op. 506.
Related Instrument Entries: R. A. Geisler & Co. (1961) , Range Organ Co. (1999) , R. A. Geisler & Co. (1973) , Alden Organ Services (2018)
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