Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5492 (1929)

Bethany College: Ling Auditorium (burned) or Old Main (demolished)
335 E. Swensson Street
Lindsborg, KS

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
25 stops
32 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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: 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

2012-04-11 - Updated through online information from Jordan Smith. -Database Manager

2025-04-27 - Updated through online information from Ryon Carey (April 20, 2025): This organ actually still exists elsewhere. The 1929 version was originally installed using parts of the Ling Auditorium organ with some new ranks purchased from Moller. When Bethany College bought the new Reuter organ, this organ was sold to, and installed in Brown Auditorium at McPherson College in McPherson, KS. Dr. Steven Gustafson has all the original documentation about it and the installation in Presser Hall. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications, OHS Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Lindsborg, Kansas
       Bethany College

       Möller   Op. 5492   1929   3/27
       ________________________________________________

       All parts new except casing and pipes of present
       organ to be used. All pipes used to be cleaned,
       revoiced and put in first class condition.

       GREAT (encl w/CH)           SWELL
    8' Open Diapason   61 a    16' Bourdon          73
    8' Gamba           61       8' Open Diapason    73
    8' Doppelflöte     61       8' Stopped Diapason 73
    8' Dulciana        61 a     8' Salicional       73 a
    8' Melodia         CH       8' Vox Celeste      61
    4' Octave          61       8' Aeolina          73
    4' Flute d'Amour   CH       4' Violina          73
2 2/3' Twelfth         61       4' Flauto Traverso  73
    2' Piccolo         61       2' Flautina         61
    8' Trumpet         61     III  Cornet          183
       Tremulant                8' Oboe             61
       Sub                         Tremulant
       Unison Off                  Sub
       Super                       Unison Off
       Blank                       Super
       Blank                       Blank
       Blank                       Blank
                                   Blank
       CHOIR
    8' Violin Diapason 61          PEDAL
    8' Melodia         61      16' Open Diapason    32
    8' Dulciana        GT      16' Bourdon          32
    4' Flute d'Amour   61      16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
    2' Piccolo         GT       8' Octave           12
    8' Clarinet        61       8' Flute            12
       Tremulant                   Blank
       Sub                         Blank
       Unison Off                  Blank
       Super
       Blank
       Blank
       Blank                    a  new stop

      [Received from Jeff Scofield May 24, 2014]

Documents

(1928-12-29) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

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