Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 825 (1908)

Trinity Methodist Church / Knoxville House of Faith
416 Lovenia Ave.
Knoxville, TN

Images

2016-06-06 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2016-06-06 - Console (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2016-06-06 - Pedalboard (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2016-06-06 - Console interior showing tubular pneumatic action (Photograph by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2017-10-07 - Organ interior layout (Image by William Dunklin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
15 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-13 - Pedals have been removed. Trinity Methodist building later used by House of Faith. -Database Manager

2007-05-30 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Akron plan sanctuary. Five-sectional facade of gold pipes in front. Console attached to case around left side beneath dummy facade of 21 dummy gold pipes. This is the oldest original organ in its original home in Knoxville. [Source: Personal examination and Möller opus list] -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory ledgerbook in the OHS Archives Source: Stoplist copied from the Console Console: April 1997

   Trinity Methodist Church
   Knoxville, Tennessee

   Möller   Op. 825   1908   2/13
   ____________________________________________________________________

      GREAT                             COUPLERS
Great 8'  Open Diapason     61          Swell to Pedal           [8]
Great 8'  Melodia           61          Great to Pedal           [8]
Great 8'  Gamba             61
Great 8'  Dulciana          61          Swell to Great        16,[8],4

Great 4                                 Compound Coupler Release


       SWELL (Expressive)               FINGER PISTONS (Pre-set; mech.)
Sw 8'  Open Diapason        61          Swell                  1,2,3,0
Sw 8'  Gedeckt              61          Great                  1,2,  0
Sw 8'  Salicional           61          00
Sw 8'  Vox Celeste    (tc)  49
Sw 8'  Aeoline              61
Sw 4'  Flute Harmonique     61          FOOT LEVERS (Labeled)
Sw 8'  Oboe                 61          Gr. to Ped.              (rev)
       Swell Tremolo
                                        Piano - Gr. 8' Dulciana
Swell 16                                        Sw. 8' Sal. & Voix Cel.
Swell 4                                         Ped. 16' Bourdon

                               
      PEDAL                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Pedal 16' Open Diapason     30          Swell Expression       (bal.)
Pedal 16' Bourdon           30          Crescendo              (bal.)
Pedal 8'  Octave            12
Pedal 8'  Flute             12
                                        ACCESSORIES
                                        Water Motor
ACTION: Tubular-Pneumatic
VOICES: 13
STOPS:  15
RANKS:  13
PIPES:  743


[Received from Jeff Scofield April 29, 2016]
[Verified & Updated by James R. Stettner February 18, 2022]

Documents

(1907-08-27) Original Contract Original handwritten contract courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak
(1908-04-01) Recital Announcement Clipping from the Knoxville Tennessee newspaper Knoxville Sentinel -William Dunklin