Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church: Sanctuary
16325 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring, MD
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2015-03-28 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2018 - Console (Photograph by Brenda Ni, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Console (Photograph by spenvervillechurch.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2017-09-23 - Chancel, Console, and Organ Case (Photograph by Tim Tindall/Database Manager)
2017-09-23 - Nave and Solo Pipework (Photograph by Tim Tindall/Database Manager)
2017-09-23 - State Trumpet and Stained Glass Window (Photograph by Tim Tindall/Database Manager)
2020s - New Console installed by Columbia Organ Works (Larry Pruett via Facebook/Paul R. Marchesano)
2024-08-09 - Fire damage (Larry Pruett via Facebook/Paul R. Marchesano)
2024-08-09 - Fire damage. Organ console is under red blanket. (Deborah Kijak Hess via Facebook/Paul R. Marchesano)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 55 stops
- 97 registers
- 7 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)
- Combination action: Computerized/Digital
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2007-08-25 - Identified by Jeff Scofield through information in Möller factory documents. -Database Manager
2012-04-06 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2012-06-30 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager
2017-02-22 - In 1989, Frank & Dolly DeHaan, former members of Spencerville Church, made a generous donation for the purchase of a fine pipe organ. In time, several families in the congregation joined together to finance the antiphonal organ, and the congregation agreed to sponsor a number of acoustical improvements to the sanctuary. In December of 1988, the M. P. Moller Company of Hagerstown, Maryland, the world's largest builder of pipe organs at the time, was chosen to build the instrument. Installation took place during the spring and summer of 1991. The organ was inaugurated on September 21, 1991, in a recital by Simon Preston of London, and dedicated by the congregation on October 26, 1991. -Database Manager
2023-05-16 - According to the church website and a video describing work on the organ, the organ was to be extensively refurbished ca. 2020-2022, including a new console in 2021 and repairs to collapsing pipework. -Jeff Scofield
2024-08-09 - Completely destroyed in a fire, 8 August 2024; the fire apparently originated in the audio-visual booth. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Silver Spring, Maryland
Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church
Möller Op. 11806 1991 4/78
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GREAT SOLO
16' Double Open Diapason 61 8' Flauto Mirabilis 61
8' First Open Diapason 61 8' Gamba 61
8' Second Open Diapason 12 8' Gamba Celeste 61
8' Clarabella 61 4' Orchestral Flute 12
4' Octave 61 16' Posaune GT
4' Night Horn 61 8' Tuba 61
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 8' Trumpet GT
2' Fifteenth 61 8' English Horn 61
V Cornet 185 4' Clarion GT
IV Mixture 244 Tremulant
IV Sharp Mixture 244 Sub
16' Posaune 61 Unison Off
8' Trumpet 61 Super
4' Clarion 24 16' State Trumpet tc
Tremulant 8' State Trumpet 61
Unison Off Chimes 25
Super
8' State Trumpet SO NAVE
8' Tuba SO 16' Gedackt 61
Chimes SO 8' Principal 61
8' Gedackt 12
SWELL 4' Octave 61
16' Bourdon 61 4' Spire Flute 24
8' Violin Diapason 61 2' Super Octave 24
8' Violin Celeste 61 IV Mixture 244
8' Chimney Flute 12 16' Double Trumpet 61
8' Flute Celeste II 122 8' Trumpet 12
4' Principal 61 4' Clarion 12
4' Harmonic Flute 61
2 2/3' Nazard 61 NAVE PEDAL
2' Recorder 61 16' Gedackt NA
1 3/5' Tierce 61 8' Stopped Flute NA
V Fourniture 305 4' Principal NA
16' Fagotto 61 16' Double Trumpet NA
8' Trompette 61
8' Oboe 12 PEDAL
8' Vox Humana 61 32' Open Wood el
4' Clairon 61 32' Contra Subbass el
Tremulant 16' Open Wood 32
Sub 16' Double Open Diapason GT
Unison Off 16' Subbass 32
Super 16' Gemshorn CH
16' Bourdon SW
CHOIR 8' Octave 32
16' Gemshorn 61 8' Gedackt 12
8' Stopped Diapason 61 8' Chimney Flute SW
8' Traverse Flute 61 4' Choralbass 32
8' Gemshorn 12 4' Stopped Flute 12
8' Gemshorn Celeste 61 4' Cantus Flute SO
4' Principal 61 2' Orchestral Flute SO
4' Zauber Flute 61 IV Mixture 128
2' Octave 61 IV Fagotto Cornet --
1 1/3' Larigot 61 32' Contre Bombarde 32
1' Octave 24 16' Bombarde 12
IV Cymbal 244 16' Posaune GT
16' Corno di Bassetto 61 16' Fagotto SW
8' Cremona 61 8' Trompette 32
Tremulant 8' Trumpet GT
Sub 4' Bombarde Clairon 12
Unison Off 4' Schalmey SW
Super 8' State Trumpet SO
8' Tuba SO 8' Tuba SO
[Received online from Jeff Scofield April 6, 2012]
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