Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 2021 (1915)

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Rockfish Road
Crimora, VA

Images

2009-06-10 - Facade and keydesk (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Keydesk (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Nameplate and couplers (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Couplers (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Wind gauge (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Great stopjamb (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Swell stopjamb (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Pedalboard and bench (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

2009-06-10 - Swell shoe (Photograph by Bob Moody/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
7 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-07-11 - Identified through on-line information from Bob Moody. -- I am playing a short recital and an evening vespers on this instrument tomorrow, 7/11/07. Wind gauge and bellows signal both work. Electric blower added when electricity came to the area. Regular services suspended in 1947, when congregations merged. Building now used for weddings, special services, and annual "Serenity at Trinity" vespers every other week in June-August. Notable is presence of a swell to great 4' coupler that works by backfall, in addition to the usual swell to great 8, swell to pedal 8, and great to pedal 8. Swell to great couplers transmit through the great to pedal coupler. Church can seat 200. Organ has a bold sound. I am playing pieces by Dudley Buck (3rd pedal study), Caleb Simper (postlude from vol 4 of 17 voluntaries), Isaac Barton ("On the Lake of Galilee") and Flor Peeters (Elegy from 60 short pieces.) Also accompanying a hymn sing. The only thing in the church that is powered by electricity is the organ. Lighting is by "camp lanterns" suspended by ropes and pullies. -Database Manager

2007-07-12 - Updated through on-line information from Bob Moody. -- The pedalboard is flat and straight, but the length of the sharps radiates, with longer sharps at the extreme ends of the pedalboard. -Database Manager

2011-06-10 - Updated through on-line information from Bob Moody. -- The manuals are backfall tracker. The pedal is Tubular Pneumatic. The Swell to Great 4 will transmit to the pedal through the Great to Pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist. On-line update from Bob Moody. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Crimora, Virginia
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

M. P. Möller Opus 2021 (1915)

Sw: 

8' Violin Diapason TC. 
8' Gedeckt  
4' Flauto Traverso    

Gt: 
8' Open Diapason 
8' Melodia 
8' Dulciana T.C.    

Pedal 16' Bourdon.    

Tremulant to entire organ (excellent..even shakes the O.D.)   

[Received on line from Bob Moody July 10, 2007]