2023-12-24 - The empty organ case (the Moller console was at floor level, in front of the choir area paneling) (Photograph from an archival source: Facebook, submitted by Scot Huntington/Scot Huntington)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-12-06 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2013-01-07 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The walnut-colored case with gold facade pipes is located at the right-front corner of the room. There is a passage through the case through which the choir can enter the choir seating area from the main hallway that spans the church behind the organ and altar. The Great and Swell are stacked with the Swell at floor level and the Great and Pedal Bourdon above. The Echo is located in a small closet-sized chamber on the second floor at the center-rear, and is winded from the blower in the cellar under the main organ, and the first manual is dedicated to the Echo division. -- manual chests have 73 notes -Database Manager
2016-03-03 - Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. A 2013 entry for the First Methodist Church, Dansville, New York lists this organ as existing there in altered condition as of 2002. A 2016 search of the Canisteo church's website photos confirm a 2-manual imitation device is now in use; the former console alcove is gone, having been replaced with a contemporary baptismal font, but the 1930 Moller casework remains in place, unaltered. Further research is needed to confirm the date and circumstances of this organ's removal, and its current state in Dansville. -Database Manager
stoplist from console, 11/18/1970 Source: Personal notebook Contract held at American Organ Archives
First Presbyterian Church
Canisteo, New York
M.P. Moller, op. 5791, 1930
Compasses: 61/32
All divisions enclosed.
Chests and ranks 73-notes except as noted.
Horseshoe console.
Moller to build case, Echo grill, two-sided modesty panel around
pedal board; facade pipes Gold Bronze color.
W.P. 5"
[Scale annotations in brackets from contract]
Great
Open Diapason 8' [scale 40, wood bass, 61 pipes]
Viole d'Gamba 8' [scale 58]
Melodia 8'
Dulciana 8' [scale 56]
Octave 4' [scale 56]
Flute 4' ext.
Dolce 4' ext.
Spare
Chimes [21 gongs, from Echo]
Tremulant
Great to Great 16,4
Great Unison release (piston in key jamb)
Swell to Great 16, 8, 4
Echo to Great 16, 8, 4
Swell
Bourdon 16' [Gedeckt scale, unit flute]
Open Diapason 8 [scale 44, zinc bass]
Salicional 8' [scale 62]
Vox Celeste 8' [scale 62, t.c., 61 pipes]
Stopped Diapason 8' ext.
Aeoline 8' [scale 56]
Orchestral Flute 4' ext.
Quint 2 2/3' ext.
Flautino 2' ext.
Oboe 8'
Spare
Tremulant (replaced in the late 1960s with a solid-state unit adjustable at the console for rate and speed)
Swell to Swell 16, 4
Swell Unison Release (piston in key jamb)
Echo [bottom manual]
Echo Flute 8' [Trav. scale}
Muted Violin 8' [scale 68, tapered]
Muted Violin Celeste 8' [scale 66, tapered, t.c., 61 pipes]
Fern Flute 4' ext.
Violin 4' ext.
Vox Humana 8' [voiced heavy]
Chimes [21 gongs]
Tremulant
Spare
Echo to Echo 16, 4
Echo Unison Release (piston in key jamb)
Pedal
Bourdon 16' [large scale, 44 pipes]
Lieblich Gedackt 16' (SW)
Octave 8' ext. 16'
Violon-Cello 8' (GR)
Flute 8' (SW)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Echo to Pedal
Mechanicals
Individual expression pedals: Great, Swell, Echo
Crescendo Pedal
Sforzando reversible (toe and piston)
General Cancel
Divisional pistons
General pistons duplicated by toe pedals
Great to Pedal reversible (toe and piston)
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