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M. P. Möller Opus 5586 (1929)

Calvary Baptist Church / Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church
1405 13th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2011-03-21 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Stop rail and stop tabs: Great (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Stop rail and stop tabs: Swell (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Stop rail and stop tabs: Pedal (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Combination Setter (Left of stop rail) (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Nameplate (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Swell shoe, crescendo pedal, coupler reversible (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Manuals, thumb pistons (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Pipework: Open Diap., Salic., Viol. Diap., Melodia, Dulc., Oboe (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Pipework: Vox humana (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Pipework: Violin Diapason 8' C; Pipe maker's mark [HL] (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Church Interior (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - Console interior (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - "Pitch pipe" - Moller label (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - "Pitch pipe" - Moller label (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - "Pitch pipe" - Moller label (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

2011-03-21 - "Pitch pipe" - Moller label (Photograph by Jim Cook./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
27 registers
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-12-04 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2011-03-21 - Calvary Baptist Church closed in the 1960s; the property is now the home of Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church. The console has been disconnected; a Hammond sits in its place. The pipework, chests, and blower are in place and unaltered. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Birmingham, Alabama
Calvary Baptist Church

M.P. Möller Opus 5586 (1929)

Stoplist from console
[For stop tab order, capitalization, and other details, see photographs below.]

GREAT                              SWELL                       PEDAL

8  Open Diapason                   8  Violin Diapason            16  Bourdon
8  Melodia                         8  Gedeckt                    16  Lieblich Gedeckt
8  Salicional [Swell]              8  Salicional                     Great to Pedal
8  Dulciana                        8  Dolce [Great Dulciana]         Swell to Pedal
4  Principal [Swell Vio. Diap.]    4  Flute Traverso [Great Melodia]       
4  Flute d'Amour [ Swell Gedeckt]  8  Oboe
8  Oboe [Swell]                    8  Vox humana
   Great 16, 4                        Tremulant
   Swell to Great 16, 8, 4            Swell Unison Off ('Swell Separation')
                                      Swell 16, 4

Entire organ in enclosed in one chamber. Vox humana is in a box with no visible means
of expression. Shades to Nave (small opening) and to choir loft (larger opening).

73 note duplex chest. Lieblich Gedeckt is Bourdon on softer wind. 

[From visit march 21 2011.]

Documents

(2011-03-21) Notes -Database Manager

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