Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5378 (1928)

First Reformed Church
729 Carroll Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY

Images

2010-05-08 - Reisner console installed by Paul Fritzsche for a gallery organ that was never installed; console later removed (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-05-08 - Church interior to gallery (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-05-08 - Console (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-05-08 - Church interior and organ case (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson via the NYC AGO Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
44 stops
4 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2010-12-04 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2012-01-30 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2020-12-10 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: The present church, designed by George L. Morse in the Neo-Gothic style, was dedicated on September 27, 1891. The large interior includes a barrel vault ceiling, and is accented by beautiful stained glass windows, two of which were made by the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios. The rich interior decoration is considered one of the finest examples of Arts and Crafts design in the United States. In 1928, the M.P. Möller Company rebuilt the 1891 Roosevelt organ, providing a new three-manual drawknob console within the old shell. At some point, a three-manual stopkey console with preparations for gallery divisions was installed in the gallery by Paul Fritzsche of Allentown, Penn. The Geo. Kilgen & Son Co. did undetermined work on March 16, 1937, and the organ has been revised several times. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of the NYC AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        Brooklyn, New York
        Old First Reformed Church

        Möller   Op. 5378   1928   3/42
        _____________________________________________
 
        GREAT                    SWELL
     8' Open Diapason        16' Bourdon
     8' Viole d'Gambe         8' Open Diapason
     8' Melodia               8' Stopped Diapason
     8' Gemshorn              8' Violin Diapason
     4' Octave                8' Salicional
     4' Flute Harmonique      8' Viole d'Orchestre
 2 2/3' Twelfth               8' Voix Celeste
     2' Fifteenth             4' Octave
   III  Mixture               4' Rohrflöte
     8' English Horn          4' Gemshorn
        Tremulant             2' Principal
     8' Tuba                  2' Flageolet
                          1 3/5' Seventeenth
        PEDAL                 8' Trompette
    16' Bourdon               4' Clairon
    16' Violone                  Tremulant
    16' Lieblich Gedeckt
    16' Dulciana                 CHOIR
10 2/3' Quinte                8' English Open Diapason
     8' Octave                8' Concert Flute
     8' Violoncello           8' Quintadena
     8' Flute Dolce           8' Dulciana
     4' Flute                 4' Flute d'Amour
    16' Tuba              2 2/3' Nazard
     8' Tuba                  2' Piccolo
     4' Tuba                  8' Clarinet
                                 Tremulant

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield January 31, 2012]