1948 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2005-11-01 - Identified through on line information from John Jurgensen, Organist and Director of Music Ministries. -Database Manager
2013-01-06 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The contract was signed on the 25th of March, 1925 for delivery no more than one year later. The organ was shipped on June 5, 1926. The contract price was $16,000, minus $4,000 allowed on the Hook & Hastings organ taken in trade. The organ is installed in chambers at the front of the church, on either side of a second-floor choir gallery behind the altar. Moller provided no expression boxes or casework, only swell fronts and facade dummy pipes (natural zinc, lacquered). The console was oak, natural finish. This organ was so substantially rebuilt in 1970 as R-871, that it was essentially a new organ incorporating old chests and some pipework. -- Manual windchests had 73 notes. -Database Manager
Source: contract and factory records Date not recorded
Oneonta, New York
First Methodist Episcopal Church
M.P. Moller, Opus 4289, 1925 - Original Specifications
Organ on 6" wind, Echo on 5" and Tuba on 10".
GREAT (Expressive with Choir, some stops duplexed between both divisions)
16' Double Open Diapason scale 44 at 8'C
8' First Open Diapason sc. 40, leathered
8' Second Open Diapason ext. 16'
8' Doppel Floete
8' Clarabella
8' Viola sc. 56, "not voiced loud"
8' Gemshorn
4' Octave from Choir 8' Diapason
4' Flute Harmonic
8' Tuba'
Tremulant
SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon unit scale, wood
8' Gedeckt ext.
4' Orchestral Flute ext.
2 2/3' Quint ext.
2' Fifteenth ext.
1 2/5' Tiercena ext.
8' Open Diapason sc. 42
8' Flute Traverso
8' Viole d'Orch. sc. 66, Tin
8' Viole Celeste sc. 64, Tin, t.c.
8' Salicional
8' AEoline
4' Salicet from Salicional 8'
3 RKS. Mixture draws Quint 2 2/3', plus 2' and 1 3/5' from Vd'O
8' Cornopean
8' Oboe
Tremulant
CHOIR (Expressive)
8' English Open Diapason sc. 46
8' Viola d' Gamba sc. 58
8' Doppel Flute from Great
8' Melodia from Great Clarabella
8' Gemshorn from Great
8' Gemshorn Celeste t.c.
8' Dulciana
8' Unda Maris t.c.
4' Flute from Great Flute 4'
4' Dulcet ext.
8' Tuba from Great
8' French Horn
8' Clarinet
Tremolo
Harp
ECHO (Expressive; plays from Great manual)
8' Echo Flute concert flute scale
8' Muted Viole sc. 66, tapered
4' Flute ext.
4' Violin ext.
8' Vox Humana in separate expression box, p/f by piston control
Tremolo
Chimes
PEDAL
16' Open Diapason large scale, wood
16' Small Diapason from Great
16' Bourdon large scale
16' Lieblich Gedeckt from Swell
8' Octave ext.
8' Violoncello from Choir Gamba
8' Flute ext. Bourdon
16' Tuba ext. Tuba 8'
COUPLERS
Great 16, 4
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
Choir to Great 16, 8, 4
Echo to Great
Echo On
Great Off
Swell 16, 4
Choir to Swell 16, 8, 4
Choir 16, 4
Swell to Choir 16, 8, 4
Great to Pedal 8, 4
Swell to Pedal 8, 4
Choir to Pedal 8, 4
Swell Unison Separation (piston in key jamb)
Choir Unison Separation (piston in key jamb)
ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS
Generals 1 - 4
Echo 0 - 4
Swell 0 - 5
Great 0 - 5
Choir 0 - 5
Pedal 0 - 5
General Cancel
Pedal to Manual combination couplers (pistons in stop jambs)
TOE STUDS / FOOT LEVERS
Great to Pedal reversible
Sforzando (double touch/ sub and super couplers on second touch)
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Echo Expression (bal.)
Great-Choir Expression (bal.)
Swell Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)
NOTES
Factory Clarinet and Vox, remaining reeds from Anton Gottfried;
use French Horn returned from Scranton, PA.
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