Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 11438 (1980)

First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
105 E. Main Street
Ionia, MI

Images

2010-08-11 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Right Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-11 - Left Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2022-08-03 - Church interior (Church Facebook via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-03-30 - Church exterior (Church Facebook via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
26 stops
3 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-09-22 - Identified by Jeff Scofield through information in Möller factory documents. -Database Manager

2010-08-12 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was dedicated on October 26, 1980, with Dr. Albert Bilitho at the console. The cost of the instrument was $80,940. The Swell division is under expression on the left side of the chancel. Part of the Great division is under expression on the right side of the chancel, while other ranks are exposed on chests on both sides of the chancel. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Ionia, Michigan
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

M. P. Möller    Opus 11438     24 ranks     1980
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GREAT: (*exposed)           SWELL: (enclosed)            PEDAL: (exposed)
  16' Gedeckt [PD]              8' Holzgedeckt 61         16' Subbass 44
   8' Principal 61 *            8' Viola 61               16' Gedeckt 12 [SW]
   8' Bourdon 61                8' Viola Celeste [GG] 54   8' Principal 44
   4' Octave 61 *               4' Spitzflöte 61           8' Bourdon
   4' Spillflöte 61             2' Principal 61            4' Choralbass
   2' Blockflöte 61         1 1/3' Larigot 61              4' Gedeckt 
  IV  Fourniture 244 *        III  Scharf 183             16' Fagot 56
  II  Sesquialtera [TC] 98      8' Trompette 61            8' Fagot 
      Tremolo                      Tremolo                 4' Fagot
      Chimes

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • August 12, 2010]

Documents

(1980-01-18) Factory specifications via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield