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M. P. Möller Opus 1200 (1911)

United States Military Academy: Cadet Chapel
722 DeRussy Road
West Point, NY

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1914-07-01 - Original 1911 organ cases (The American Architect/Jim Stettner)

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Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Many additions by Möller and others to about 310 ranks by 1994. -Database Manager

2006-01-19 - Updated through online information from W. G. Chapman. -Database Manager

2008-10-19 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Composite stoplist from multiple sources. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

West Point, New York
Cadet Chapel, United States Military Academy

M. P. Möller, Opus 1200, Dedicated 6/11/11
Console #1                   (Spec. 348-GSC-38)  2406 pipes

II  Great Organ (Exposed)
                              V-11  S- 8  R-10  P-610
 1  Double Open Diapason         16                61 p
 2  Open Diapason                 8                61 p
 3  Viola D’Gamba                 8                61 p
 4  Doppel Floete                 8                61 p
 5  Geigen Principal              8                61 p
 6  Octave                        4                61 p
 7  Super Octave                  2                61 p
 8  Mixture                          3 Ranks      183 p
 9  Tuba Major            PD     16
10  Tuba Mirabilis        PD      8
11  Tuba Clarion          PD      4

    Couplers affecting Great:
    Great Unison Off
    Swell to Great               16
    Swell to Great                8
    Swell to Great                4
    Choir to Great               16
    Choir to Great                8
    Choir to Great                4


III Swell Organ (Expressive)
                              V-11  S-11  R-11  P-779
12  Bourdon                      16                73 p
13  Open Diapason                 8                73 p
14  Stopped Diapason              8                73 p
15  Salicional                    8                73 p
16  Vox Celeste       TC          8                61 p
17  Quintadena                    8                73 p
18  Violina                       4                73 p
19  Wald Flute                    4                73 p
20  Flautina                      2                61 p
21  Cornopean                     8                73 p
22  Orchestral Oboe               8                73 p
    Tremolo

    Couplers affecting Swell:
    Swell Unison Off
    Swell to Swell               16
    Swell to Swell                4

    Processional and Echo Organ on Swell (Expressive)
                              V- 4  S- 4  R- 4  P-232
23  Echo Diapason                 8                61 p
24  Viola Concerto                8                61 p
25  Viol AEtheria     TC          8                49 p
26  Echo Flute                    4                61 p
    Tremolo

I   Choir Organ (Expressive)
                              V- 8  S- 8  R- 8  P-548
27  Gemshorn                      8                73 p
28  Dulciana                      8                73 p
29  Melodia                       8                73 p
30  Unda Maris        TC          8                61 p
31  Flute Harmonique              4                73 p
32  Piccolo                       2                61 p
33  Clarinet                      8                73 p
34  Vox Humana                    8                61 p
    Tremolo

    Couplers affecting Choir:
    Choir Unison Off
    Choir to Choir               16
    Choir to Choir                4
    Swell to Choir               16
    Swell to Choir                8
    Swell to Choir                4

    Processional and Echo Organ on Choir
                               V- 5  S- 0  R- 0  P- 0
35  Echo Diapason                 8                
36  Viola Concerto                8                
37  Viol AEtheria     TC          8                
38  Echo Flute                    4                
    Blank
    Tremolo

    Pedal Organ
                              V-10  S- 5  R- 5  P-237
39  Contra Bourdon               32                44 p
40  Open Diapason                16                44 p
41  Dulciana                     16                32 p
42  Bourdon                      16 from Bourdon
43  Lieblich Gedeckt      SW     16
44  Violoncello                   8                32 p
45  Flute                         8 from Diapason
46  Tuba Major                   16                85 p
47  Tuba Mirabilis                8 from Tuba
48  Tuba Clarion                  4 from Tuba

    Couplers affecting Pedal:
    Pedal Octave
    Swell to Pedal                8
    Swell to Pedal                4
    Choir to Pedal                8

Console:
Registration and Intermanual couplers by Drawknobs
Intramanual couplers by Tilting Tablets

Balanced Pedal Movements:
Swell Organ
Choir Organ
Echo Organ
Register Crescendo Pedal

Combination Action:
5 divisional pistons affecting Swell Organ.
4 divisional pistons affecting Great Organ.
4 divisional pistons affecting Choir Organ.
2 divisional pistons affecting Swell Echo Organ.
2 divisional pistons affecting Choir Echo Organ.
3 divisional pistons affecting Pedal Organ
2 master pistons affecting full organ.
All thumb pistons duplicated on Toe Studs.

Accessories:
Tracker Touch keyboards.
Two centrifugal electric blowers.
Generator for action current.

Swell Boxes (by Losh):
Built of steel, terracotta blocks, concrete with parabolic ceilings.
Interior coatings of the hardest kind of adamantine plaster.

Swell Shades:
Electric, operating serially, very wide and thick.

Console:
Is the type advocated by Mr. E. H. Lemare.
Registers are solid ivory knobs of large size in vertical stop jambs that are set at a 45 degree angle.

Alterations: 
1   Great Geigen Principal exchanged with Choir Gemshorn. [1913]

Additions:
1   Pedal Tuba Mirabilis 16’-85 pipes. [1911]
(Gift of Peter Matthias Möller.)
2   Great Chimes, 22 tubular bells with variable stroke action.
(Col. William Hamilton Harris Memorial, gift of Mrs. Harris.) [1913]
3   Swell Dolce Cornet III (183 pipes) [ca. 1916]

Specification:
Prepared by Col. J. M. Carson, Quartermaster.
Contract cost $10,000.

Möller Personnel:
C. S. Losh, representative for Möller Organs.
Charles Williams, Tonal Finisher.

Casework:
West Organ Screen designed by Bertram C. Goodhue.
Carved by Irving & Casson Co. Installed with the original organ and cost $1500.

Sources:
The Möller Organ in the West Point Cadet Chapel
John W Harvey Thesis on Cadet Chapel Organ
USMA files
This stoplist is a composite from multiple sources and reflects the known early changes to 1916.


 [Received from Grant Chapman 2013-02-05.]

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