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M. P. Möller Opus M-13101 (1961)

Grace Episcopal Church
224 E Gowen Avenue
Philadelphia: Mount Airy, PA

Images

2019 - Building (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2019 - Room (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2019 - Chamber grille (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

2019 - Organ in room (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
30 stops
35 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-01-04 - Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: New console for E. M. Skinner Opus 320 (1920). -Database Manager

2015-04-17 - Updated through online information from Jonathan M. Bowen. -- This work was for a new console only. No tonal changes were made. In 2005 the Moller console was replaced with E.M. Skinner's opus 410 console. -Database Manager

2016-06-13 - Updated through online information from Jonathan M. Bowen. This organ is NOT dispersed or parted out. The Moller rebuild was for a new console only. The Skinner organ is tonally intact. the organ is now played from the console of opus 410. (St.Paul's Episcopal Church, Petersburg, VA.) The church is now called Grace-Epiphany. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From ORGAN ID 22580

M. P. Möller (Opus M-13101, 1961 new console)
Skinner Organ Company   (Opus 320   1920)
Grace Episcopal Church
Philadelphia: Mount Airy, PA

Skinner Organ Company   Opus 320   1920          3 manuals, 30 stops, 32 ranks
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          GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
      16' Bourdon             17 PED          16' Bourdon             73
       8' First Diapason      61               8' Diapason            73
       8' Second Diapason     61               8' Gedeckt             73
       8' Clarabella          61               8' Salicional          73
       4' Octave              61               8' Voix Celeste        73
       4' Flute               61               8' Aeoline             73
   2 2/3' Twelfth             61               8' Unda Maris (TC)     61
       2' Fifteenth           61               4' Flute               73
       8' Tromba              61 a             2' Flautino            61
       8' French Horn         61 a           III  Mixture            183
          Chimes              p.f.*            8' Cornopean           73
       8' Pitch Diapason      44               8' Flügel Horn         73
                                               8' Vox Humana          73
          CHOIR ORGAN                             Tremolo
       8' Diapason            73
       8' Concert Flute       73                  PEDAL ORGAN
       8' Dulciana            73              16' Diapason            32
       4' Flute               73              16' Bourdon             32
       8' Clarinet            73              16' Echo Lieblich       SW
          Tremolo                              8' Octave              12
                                               8' Gedeckt             12
                                               8' Still Gedeckt       SW
                                                  Chimes              GT p.f.*


[Copied from ORGAN ID 22580]
* Never installed. At some point, activated to operate a Schulmeric Carillon

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