Henry Pilcher's Sons
1925ca.
Originally Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. / Chas. C. Kilgen (1892)
Athens College / Athens State University
McCandless Hall: Griffin Auditorium
Athens, AL, US
12 Ranks
Instrument ID: 3673 ● Builder ID: 2792 ● Location ID: 3491
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Flat Straight
Features:
2 Manuals 18 StopsMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop ActionStop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Database Manager on January 26th, 2009:
I visited the organ this afternoon; had only a short time for a superficial examination. Two combination pedals: Great forte and Great piano. Couplers on drawknobs, lower right terrace. Organ is in an addition to upstage wall of auditorium stage, an addition apparently made to the building when the organ was acquired from the Methodist church in 1925. There is an electric blower, but all the original hand-pumped mechanism is present and operative. If the Pilchers moved the organ they did a complete job of it. The only change may have been the substitution of a Voix celeste for what was more probably a tenor-c reed (Oboe?) on the swell. If that was done, it could have been completed before the move.
I visited the organ this afternoon; had only a short time for a superficial examination. Two combination pedals: Great forte and Great piano. Couplers on drawknobs, lower right terrace. Organ is in an addition to upstage wall of auditorium stage, an addition apparently made to the building when the organ was acquired from the Methodist church in 1925. There is an electric blower, but all the original hand-pumped mechanism is present and operative. If the Pilchers moved the organ they did a complete job of it. The only change may have been the substitution of a Voix celeste for what was more probably a tenor-c reed (Oboe?) on the swell. If that was done, it could have been completed before the move.
Database Manager on January 26th, 2009:
[The previous recorded date for this organ was 1905; the 1892 date is from a parishioner and staff member at the University -- undocumented at this time.]
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From First Methodist Church, Athens, AL. c. 1925. Probably moved by Pilcher who allowed the Methodists $500 toward Pilcher Op. 1264 in 1925.
Related Instrument Entries: Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. / Chas. C. Kilgen (1892) , Milnar Organ Co. (2014)
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