Henry Pilcher's Sons
1925ca.

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.

[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.]

From First Methodist Church, Athens, AL. c. 1925. Probably moved by Pilcher who allowed the Methodists $500 toward Pilcher Op. 1264 in 1925.