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M. P. Möller Opus 5451 (1928)

Bleitz Mortuary: Chapel
316 Florencia
Seattle, WA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

ca. 1930 - Console (in side room) (Bleitz Mortuary archives; courtesy of Mike Emmick/Database Manager)

ca. 1930 - Unidentified organist at console (Photograph from an archival source: Pierson Photo Co., Emmick Family Collection/Database Manager)

ca. 1930 - Funeral home exterior; facade (Photograph from an archival source: Pierson Photo Co., Emmick Family Collection/Database Manager)

2014-06-30 - Care Label (posted in chamber) (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2008-12-15 - Nameplate (Digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
6 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

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

2008-05-10 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was in a single chamber at the front of the room with the console in a separate room on the right side of the chapel. The shutters were up high at ceiling level. Later, the organ had a Vox Humana added to it, and also a tenor C Aeoline on an electro-mechanical chest placed atop the upper walkboard. The chests were a duplex pitman type with two primaries. The five manual ranks were Diapason, Gedeckt, Salicional, Vox Celeste, and Oboe. The Pedal had a 44-pipe, 16'/8' Bourdon. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Stoplist copied from the console October 22, 1992; verified & updated January 28, 1998 Date not recorded

Seattle, Washingon
Bleitz Funeral Home

M.P. MÖLLER, Opus 5451, 1928 - Original Specifications


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS
   8   Open Diapason                61          Swell to Pedal                [8]
   8   Gedeckt                (Sw)  –-          Great to Pedal                [8]
   8   Salicional             (Sw)  –-
   4   Flute                  (Sw)  –-          Swell to Great             16,[8],4
   2   Piccolo                (Sw)  –-
   8   Oboe                   (Sw)  –-
       Chimes  (Deagan; ta-e2)     (20)      FINGER PISTONS
                                                Full Organ                    1 - 3
   Great 16'                                    Swell & Pedal                 1 - 3
   Great 4'                                     Great & Pedal                 1 - 3


SWELL (Expressive)                           FOOT LEVERS
   16  Lieblich Gedeckt       (tc)  –-          Gr. to Ped. Reversible        (rev)
   8   Gedeckt                      61
   8   Salicional                   73
   8   Vox Celeste            (tc)  61       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   4   Flute                        12          Expression                   (bal.)
   2   Piccolo                      12          Crescendo                    (bal.)
   8   Oboe                         73
       Tremulant
                                             ACTION: E-P Pitman & Unit
   Swell 16'
   Swell 4'                                  VOICES: 6

                                             STOPS: 17; inc. chimes
PEDAL (Expressive)
   16  Bourdon                      32       RANKS: 6
   16  Lieblich Gedeckt       (Sw)  12
   8   Flute                        12       PIPES: 409


NOTES
The chapel portion of the funeral home was built in 1919. This organ is believed to
be an original installation, however there was evidence to suggest it might not be.
The junction board in the back of the console was labeled, Baltimore, Maryland. How-
ever, on the wall of the pipe chamber was the Möller blueprint for the organ which
was labeled for Bleitz Funeral Parlor. It is possible that the organ was purchased
and installed used by the Möller representative.

The pipe chamber was at the front of the chapel with a grille-cloth covered opening
high on the wall. The console was in a room on the right side of the chapel. The
organ was enlarged in 1953 by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle with 2 ranks added.

Sources: Eugene M. Nye compilation; Wm. J. Bunch files; JRS; extant, altered organ.


Bleitz Funeral Home
319 Florence
Seattle, WA. 98109                           Documented............October 22, 1992
(206) 282-5220                               Verified & Updated....January 28, 1998

Documents

(1929-07-24) Factory Drawings Factory Drawings courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

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