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M. P. Möller Opus 8768 (1957)

First Presbyterian Church
2344 Center Street
Bethlehem, PA

Images

1957-11-11 - Console (Möller Promotional Photograph; image from the collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
53 stops
39 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

2006-11-09 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2006-11-10 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Cost of organ was $54,000.00. A year after its installation, the pastor and his wife gave a memorial set of chimes. Shortly thereafter, an 8' Vox Humana from the 1927 Skinner Op. 662 at the Eugene Grace Mansion in Bethlehem was installed in the Swell division. -Database Manager

2009-11-03 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Casavant added an 8-stop Positiv in 1970 and a new 9-stop Great in 1971; in 1977, Möller rebuilt and enlarged the organ to 3/94 as Op. R-106. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> February 1957 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
       First Presbyterian Church
 
       Möller   Op. 8786   1957   3/48

       * prepared for

       GREAT                          CHOIR
   16' Quintaton 61               16' Erzähler 73
    8' Principal 61                8' Geigen 73
    8' Bourdon 61                  8' Gedeckt 73
    8' Gemshorn 61                 8' Erzähler 12
    4' Octave 61                   8' Erzähler Celeste 61 tc
    4' Harmonic Flute 61           4' Fugara 73
2 2/3' Octave Quint 61             4' Hohlflöte 73
    2' Super Octave 61         2 2/3' Nazard 61
   IV  Mixture 244                 2' Blockflöte 61
  III  Cymbale *                   8' Krummhorn 61
       Sub                            Tremulant
       Unison Off                     Sub
       Super                          Unison Off
       Chimes *                       Super
    8' Harmonic Trumpet *          8' Harmonic Trumpet *
                                      Blank
       GREAT POSITIV *
    8' Cor de Nuit                    CHOIR POSITIV *
    4' Nachthorn                      Duplicates Great Positiv
    2' Prinzipal
1 3/5' Tierce                         PEDAL
1 1/3' Larigot                    16' Principal 32
    1' Sifflöte                   16' Bourdon 32
  III  Zimbel                     16' Quintaton GT
       Tremulant                  16' Flute Conique SW
                                  16' Erzähler CH
       SWELL                       8' Principal 12
   16' Flute Conique 73            8' Bourdon 12
    8' Diapason 73                 8' Flauto Dolce SW
    8' Rohrflöte 73                8' Erzähler CH
    8' Viole de Gambe 73       5 1/3' Quint 32
    8' Viole Celeste 73            4' Super Octave 12
    8' Flauto Dolce 12             4' Choral Bass 32
    8' Flauto Dolce Cel 61 tc      4' Bourdon 12
    4' Principal 73            2 2/3' Octave Quint 12
    4' Flauto Traverso 73          2' Flute 12
2 2/3' Twelfth 61                III  Sesquialtera 96
    2' Fifteenth 61              III  Harmonics *
    V  Plein Jeu 305              16' Bombarde 32
   16' Fagot 73                   16' Fagot SW
    8' Trompette 73                8' Bombarde 12
    8' Oboe 73                     4' Bombarde 12
    4' Schalmei 73                    Chimes *
       Tremulant                      Blank
       Sub
       Unison Off
       Super
       Blank

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield November 10, 2009.]

Documents

(1957-03-04) Ardmore Organist Gives Recital Description of an organ dedication recital by Miss Claribel Thomson AAGO on 3/3/1957 published in The Morning Call (Allentown PA). -Craig A. Otto

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