Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 9777 (1963)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
111 S. Jefferson
Moscow, ID

Images

1998-03-01 - Manual Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1998-03-01 - Pipework (Pedal 16' Bourdon) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2013-03-24 - Chamber grille (Photograph by Jesse Zylstra/Database Manager)

2013-03-24 - Original Warranty (Photograph by Jesse Zylstra/Database Manager)

2013-03-24 - Console (Photograph by Jesse Zylstra/Database Manager)

2013-03-24 - Church Interior (Photograph by Jesse Zylstra/Database Manager)

2013-03-24 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Jesse Zylstra/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
26 stops
6 registers
2 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2006-11-03 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is entirely expressive in a chamber on the right side of the church where the santuary becomes the chancel. The console sits just ahead of the grille opening with the organist facing across the sanctuary. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console March 2, 1998 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Moscow, Idaho
St. Mark's Episcopal Church

M.P. MÖLLER, Opus 9777, 1963


GREAT (Expressive)            SWELL (Expressive)            PEDAL (Expressive)
   8     Diapason                16    Bourdon                 16    Bourdon
   8     Gedeckt                 8     Gedeckt                 16    Dulciana
   8     Gamba                   8     Gamba                   8     Diapason
   8     Dulciana                8     Dulciana                8     Flute
   4     Octave                  4     Flute                   4     Octave
   4     Flute                   4     Dulcet                  4     Flute
   4     Dulcet                  2-2/3 Flute Twelfth
   2-2/3 Dulciana Twelfth        2     Flautino
   2     Dulciana Fifteenth      8     Trompette
   8     Trompette               4     Clarion
                                    Tremolo


STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS        
   16    Bourdon                  (Ped)  32     
   16    Bourdon                   (Sw)  --   Tenor C. From the 8' Gedeckt.
   16    Dulciana                 (Ped)  12   Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
   8     Diapason              (Gt/Ped)  61
   8     Gedeckt                (Gt/Sw)  61
   8     Flute                    (Ped)  --   Same as the 8' Gedeckt.
   8     Gamba                  (Gt/Sw)  61
   8     Dulciana               (Gt/Sw)  61
   4     Octave                (Gt/Ped)  12   Extension of the 8' Diapason.
   4     Flute              (Gt/Sw/Ped)  12   Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
   4     Dulcet                 (Gt/Sw)  12   Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
   2-2/3 Flute Twelfth             (Sw)   7   Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
   2-2/3 Dulciana Twelfth          (Gt)   7   Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
   2     Flautino                  (Sw)   5   Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
   2     Dulciana Fifteenth        (Gt)   5   Extension of the 8' Dulciana.
   8     Trompette              (Gt/Sw)  61
   4     Clarion                   (Sw)  12   Extension of the 8' Trompette.
         Tremolo                   (Sw)       Affects the entire instrument.


PIPE SUMMARY

   Diapason       Gedeckt        Gamba          Dulciana       Trompette      Bourdon
   73 pipes       97 pipes       61 pipes       97 pipes       73 pipes       32 pipes



COUPLERS                                     FINGER PISTONS
   Swell to Pedal                  [8]          Full Organ                    1 – 4
   Great to Pedal                  [8]

   Swell to Great                  [8]       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Swell Expression             (bal.)
                                                Crescendo                    (bal.)
FOOT LEVERS
   Gr. to Pedal                  (rev)



ACTION: E-P unit       VOICES: 6       STOPS: 26       RANKS: 6       PIPES: 433


NOTES
The church's first pipe organ was a used Johnston [Morton] theatre organ
that was installed by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle in 1933. It was a
2-manual instrument with 10 ranks, 14 speaking stops, and 539 pipes. It is
recorded as having been moved to Moscow from the Queen Anne Theatre in
Seattle, but this does not coincide with documented information in David
L. Junchen's Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ. However, the
installation does exist on the Balcom and Vaughan opus list. The organ was
for sale in September of 1962. Its subsequent disposition is unknown.

The Möller is installed in a chamber on the right side towards the front
of the sanctuary. The console sits on the main nave floor at the base of
the sanctuary steps on the right side with the organist facing across the
nave and the organ chamber grille directly behind.


Sources: M.P. Möller opus list; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2012-01-24.]