Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5096 (1927)

Hope Lutheran Church: Sanctuary
100 Packard Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI

Images

2009-11-24 - Stained Glass Window in Balcony (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-24 - Sanctuary interior; gallery view (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-22 - Church exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-24 - Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-24 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-24 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2009-11-24 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
24 stops
34 registers
3 divisions
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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-11-26 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2009-11-26 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma. -- The instrument was dedicated in January of 1928 and cost $5,500. The console has two cancel buttons; each operates one of the divisions plus the pedal. When the organ was installed, there were three fake facade pipes (gilt dull finish, according to factory specifications) located on each side of the organ grill. At some point prior to 1960, they were removed and the organ grill design was changed. It also appears that the Great's Cornopean is not original to the organ (not on Möller factory specifications, and it has a newer stopkey). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (November 24, 2009) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Grand Rapids, Michigan
HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH

M. P. Möller    1927    Opus 5096    12 ranks
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GREAT:                            SWELL:
    8' Open Diapason      73         16' Bourdon          97
    8' Melodia            73          8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Viol D'Gamba       73          8' Stopped Diapason  
    8' Dulciana           73          8' Viola            GT
    4' Principal          SW          8' Vox Celeste      61 [TC]
    4' Flute Traverso                 8' Salicional       73
    8' Cornopean          73 *        8' Dolce            GT
       Chimes                         4' Flute D'Amour
                                      4' Violin 
PEDAL:                            2 2/3' Quint
   16' Sub Bass           44          2' Flautino
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt   SW          8' Oboe             73
    8' Bass Flute                     8' Vox Humana       61
                                         Tremulant                          
COUPLERS:
   Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
   Great to Great 16, 8, 4
   Swell Unison Separation
   Swell to Swell 16, 4
   Great to Pedal
   Swell to Pedal

* not on original stoplist; is controlled by a newer stopkey

[Received on line from Chad Boorsma • November 26, 2009]

Documents

(1927-07-25) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak