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M. P. Möller Opus 5601 (1929)

Haws Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: Sanctuary
800 W. Marshall St.
Norristown, PA

Images

2025-03-11 - Console (Otto Jensen/Otto Jensen)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
29 stops
32 registers
5 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

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

2011-12-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Located in "a special chamber back of the pulpit, with the Echo in a similar chamber diagonally across the church." -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> November 1929 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Norristown, Pennsylvania
    Haws Avenue Methodist Church

    Möller   Op. 5601   1929   4/29
    __________________________________________________

    GREAT                         CHOIR
 8' 1st Open Diapason 73       8' Violin Diapason   73
 8' 2nd Open Diapason 73       8' Clarabella        73
 8' Philomela         73       8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
 8' Viola d'Gamba     73       8' Dulciana          73
 4' Flute             73       4' Flute d'Amour     73
 8' Tuba  (10" wind)  73       8' Clarinet          73
    Sub                        8' French Horn  10"  61
    Unison Off                    Tremolo
    Super                         Sub
    Chimes            EC          Unison Off
                                  Super
    SWELL                         Harp              pf
16' Bourdon           73
 8' Open Diapason     73          ECHO
 8' Stopped Diapason  73       8' Flute             73
 8' Salicional        73       8' Flute Celeste     73
 8' Voix Celeste      61       8' Echo Dolce        73
 8' Aeoline           73       8' Unda Maris        73
 4' Flute Harmonic    73          Tremolo
 2' Piccolo           61       8' Tuba              pf
 8' Cornopean         73          Chimes            25
 8' Oboe              73
    Tremolo                       PEDAL
    Sub                       32' Resultant         --
    Unison Off                16' Open Diapason     32
    Super                     16' Bourdon           32
                              16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
                               8' Major Flute       12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield  December 30, 2011]

Documents

(1929-11-01) Big Möller Organ for Norristown Church Diapason article (11/1/1929 p. 3) on the installation of a new organ for the Haws Avenue Methodist Church in Norristown PA -Craig A. Otto
(1929-09-13) Article on the new organ at the Haws Avenue Methodist Church from the North Penn Reporter, Lansdale PA. -Craig A. Otto

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