Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 8702 (1954)

First United Methodist Church
610 2nd Ave. N.
Great Falls, MT

Images

1994-06-24 - Console (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-06-24 - Great Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-06-24 - Swell Pipework (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1994-06-24 - Pedal 16' Contre Basse Pipes (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
13 stops
18 registers
3 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 thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-04-28 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Installed in the new edifice - replacing a former 2/4 Kilgen in the previous (1923) edifice. Entire organ expressive. Great in front, left corner chamber. Swell in front, right corner chamber with Pedal 16' Contre Basse. Console under Swell chamber with organist facing across chancel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June 29, 1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Great Falls, Montana
First United Methodist Church

M.P. MÖLLER, Opus 8702, 1954 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8'   Diapason                    61          Swell to Pedal                [8],4
   8'   Bourdon                     61          Great to Pedal                [8]
   8'   Erzähler                    61
   4'   Octave                      61          Swell to Great             16,[8],4
   4'   Harmonic Flute              61
   2'   Violetta                    61
        Tremolo                              FINGER PISTONS
        Chimes    (Maas; ta-f42)   (21)         Full Organ                    1 - 4
                                                Swell & Pedal                 1 - 4
   Great 16                                       Sw. to Ped.                 (rev)
   Great Unison                                 Great & Pedal                 1 - 4 
   Great 4                                        Gr. to Ped.                 (rev)
                                                SFZ.                          (rev)
                                                Gen. Can.   
SWELL (Expressive)
   8'   Rohr Gedeckt                61
   8'   Viola                       61       TOE STUDS
   8'   Viola Celeste               61          Gr. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   4'   Geigen Principal            61          Sw. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   4'   Nachthorn                   61          Sforzando Reversible          (rev)
   8'   Trompette                   61
        Tremolo
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell 16                                     Swell Expression             (bal.)
   Swell Unison                                 Great Expression             (bal.)
   Swell 4                                      Crescendo                    (bal.)


PEDAL
   16'  Contre Basse                32       ACTION: E-P primary (pitman) and unit
   16'  Lieblich Gedeckt      (Sw)  12
   16'  Erzähler              (Gt)  12       VOICES: 13     STOPS: 18; inc. chimes
   8'   Rohr Gedeckt          (Sw)  --
   8'   Erzähler              (Gt)  --       RANKS: 13      PIPES: 788


NOTES
The Great division is chambered at the front, left side, and the Swell is on the front,
right side. The console sits under the Swell with the organist facing the Great and the
congregation to their left side.

Sources: Moller opus list; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2016-01-22.]