Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5254 (1928)

First Methodist Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
25 Brainerd Street
Mount Holly, NJ

Images

2013-10-14 - Console (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Chancel and chamber grilles (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Swell pipework (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Great/Choir pipework (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Voicer's signature (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Echo pipework (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

2013-10-14 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Alan Binger/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Horseshoe
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
31 stops
40 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys in Horseshoe Curves
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-11-28 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2013-12-20 - Updated through online information from Alan Binger. -- Organ is in three chambers; Great / Choir / Pedal on the right with the Swell on the left. Echo is in a chamber at the rear of the gallery. Echo organ is unplayable due to water damage. Wind line is blocked. Organ is playable but suffers from neglect. Ivories have come off keys, ciphers are frequent and there are typical leather problems such as dead notes and fallen stoppers in wood pipes. Although there has been sporadic maintenance and repair work, no tonal or significant mechanical alterations, have been made to the instrument. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Mount Holly, New Jersey
    First Methodist Church

    Möller   Op. 5254   1928   3/31
    ________________________________________________

    GREAT (encl w/CH)            CHOIR
 8' Open Diapason     61      8' Violin Diapason  73
 8' 2nd Open Diapason 61      8' Viol d'Amour     73
 8' Gross Flute       73      8' Clarabella       73
 8' Melodia           73      8' Unda Maris       61
 8' Gemshorn          73      4' Flauto Traverso  73
 8' Dulciana          73      8' French Horn      73
 4' Flute Harmonic    73      8' Clarinet         73
 8' Tuba              73         Tremulant
    Tremulant                    Sub
    Sub                          Unison Off
    Unison Off                   Super
    Super                        Chimes           EC

    SWELL                        ECHO
16' Bourdon           61      8' Echo Flute       73
 8' Open Diapason     73      8' Flute Celeste    61
 8' Gedeckt           12      8' Muted Viol       73
 8' Viol d'Orchestre  73      8' Viole Celeste    61
 8' Viole Celeste     61      8' Vox Humana       73
 8' Salicional        73         Tremulant
 8' Vox Celeste       61         Chimes           20
 8' Aeoline           73
 4' Flute d'Amour     12         PEDAL
 2' Piccolo           12     16' Open Diapason    32
 8' Cornopean         73     16' Open Diapason    12 *
 8' Oboe              73     16' Bourdon          32
    Tremulant                16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    Sub                       8' Octave           12
    Unison Off                8' Bass Flute       12
    Super                     8' Cello            SW
 8' Deagan Harp       49     16' Tuba             12 GT
 4' Harp Celeste
    Harp Dampers              *  ext. of GT Gross Flute

 [Received online from Jeff Scofield January 7, 2014]

Documents

(1928-03-29) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak