Henry Pilcher's Sons
Opus 505, 1905

St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church

530 Elizabeth Street
Ann Arbor, MI, US

31 Ranks - 1,786 Pipes
Instrument ID: 17093 ● Builder ID: 2792 ● Location ID: 7903
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CONSOLES

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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Unknown
Pedalboard Type: Unknown
Features:
2 Manuals (61 Notes)30 Note Pedal3 Divisions26 Stops✓ Crescendo✓ Sequencer✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)✓ Hitchdown Coupler(s)

Stop Layout: Unknown
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
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 July 31st, 2008:

Updated through on-line information from Timothy Tikker. -- We presume the organ originally had mechanical key and stop action and slider chests. A new electro-pneumatic console and pitman electro-pneumatic chests and action were installed by Casavant Freres Limitee of Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec in 1947; they also replaced the wind system. It appears that no tonal changes were made at that time, except that an 8' Vox humana was added to the Swell, the Pedal 16' open Diapason was extended to 8', and Pedal 16' Bourdon extended to 8' and 4' (and wired to provide a 32' Resultant). The Pedal compass was extended to 32 notes, C-g', and the pedalboard is concave and radiating. The manual compass was extended to 68 notes on the chests for the sake of octave couplers; there are of course 61-note manuals at the console.


Database Manager on April 7th, 2005:

Identified through information in Volume III p. 101 of the Pilcher factory ledger and the 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: $6500--$1000 donation. $1700 for old organ. Electric motor.

Related Instrument Entries: Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 1873, 1947) , Thomas Wood / Thomas Wood & Associates (1978) , Renaissance Pipe Organ Co. (2008)

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