Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 2724 (1920)

Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church [was First Church, Evangelical Association]: Sanctuary
237 N. East Street
Indianapolis, IN

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2011-04-20 - Building exterior (Photograph by Indianapolis Business Journal, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
41 stops
24 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2007-08-11 - Identified through information in the <i>2007 Organ Atlas</i>. -Database Manager

2010-07-21 - Updated through on-line information from Patrick Callahan. -- Organ unplayable. Console detached and stored in rear foyer. Facade pipes removed and placed over swell pipe work. Great, Choir, and pedal intact. Echo used as storage with pipe work present. -Database Manager

2011-12-26 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- In 1930, Möller, as Op. 5766, provided a new console, a new Great 8' Diapason under expression, a set of Class A Deagan Chimes and extended the Great 8' Tuba to a 16' Trombone in the Pedal. -Database Manager

2013-02-18 - Updated through online information from Joseph Fill. -- In August 2012, the console and entire Echo Division including chimes, were removed. The swell shades for the Echo Division remain. -Database Manager

2022-07-06 - The church was known as First Church, Evangelical Association, at the time the contract was signed; it eventually was renamed as New York Street Methodist and then Lockerbie Square United Methodist Church; the organ received a new Moller console in 1930, along with minor tonal changes; the console and Echo were removed in August 2012. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>OHS Organ Atlas 2007</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Indianapolis, Indiana
    First Evangelical Church/Lockerbie Central United Methodist Church

    Möller   Op. 2724   1920
    Möller   Op. 5766   1930  New console and additions
    ___________________________________________________

    GREAT (*unenclosed)            CHOIR
16' Bourdon           61        8' Geigen Principal  GT
 8' 1st Diapason      61 *      8' Traverso Flute    61
 8' 2nd Diapason      61 a      8' Spitz Flute       GT
 8' Geigen Principal  73        8' Dulciana          61
 8' Philomela         73        4' Dulcet            12
 8' Stopped Flute     12        4' Traverse Flute    12
 8' Spitz Flute       73        8' Clarinet          73
 4' Principal         61           Tremolo
 4' Flute             12           Sub
 2' Fifteenth         12           Unison Off
 8' Harmonic Tuba     61           Super
    Chimes               a
                                   ECHO
    SWELL                       8' Concert Flute     61
16' Gedeckt           73        8' Flute Celeste     49
 8' Diapason          61        8' Vox Humana        61
 8' Gedeckt           12           Tremolo
 8' Salicional        73
 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73           PEDAL
 8' Viole Celeste     73       16' Diapason          12 GT
 8' Aeoline           73       16' Bourdon           GT
 4' Octave            12       16' Gedeckt           SW
 4' Harmonic Flute    73        8' Octave            GT
 4' Salicet           12        8' Flute             GT
 2' Harmonic Piccolo  12       16' Trombone          12 GT a
III Dolce Cornet     183
 8' Harmonic Trumpet  73        a  added in 1930
 8' Oboe              73
    Tremolo
    Sub
    Unison Off
    Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield December 20, 2011]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON April Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield