Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5744 (1930)

First Lutheran Church: Nave
1301 Colley Avenue
Norfolk, VA

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

Images

1951-05-06 - The interior of the church in a service celebrating the renovation of the chancel (Photograph from an archival source: No photo credit given, submitted by Ryan-Michael Blake/Ryan-Michael Blake)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
13 stops
23 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-12-06 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2021-02-08 - The first instrument at the Colley Avenue location. Contracted in 1929 for a sum of $5,000, and paid for by the Ladies' Aid Society hosting numerous rummage sales and chicken dinners. Installation began the week of April 13, 1930 and ready for the first public service of the new building, held on the Second Sunday after Easter, May 4, 1930. The instrument was removed in July 1970 to prepare for the installation of Austin Organ, Op. 2529. Pieces of the instrument were sold to interested parties to help defray costs of the new organ. The console was destroyed. -Ryan-Michael Blake

Stoplist

Numerous ranks both replaced and added during the later life of the instrument. Source: Factory Specification ca. 1930

M.P. Möller (Opus 5744, 1930)
First Lutheran Church
Colley Avenue and Maury Place
Norfolk, Virginia, USA

GREAT ORGAN  (enclosed)

     8' Open Diapason      61 pipes
     8' Dulciana           73 pipes
     8' Gross Flute        73 pipes
     8' Viola da Gamba     73 pipes
     4' Octave             73 pipes
     4' Dulciana
     8' Tuba               61 pipes
        Chimes (Deagan)
        Tremulant
        Great to Great 16'
        Great to Great 4'
        Swell to Great 16'
        Swell to Great 8'
        Swell to Great 4'

SWELL ORGAN  (enclosed)

    16' Bourdon            97 pipes
     8' Open Diapason      73 pipes
     8' Stopped Diapason
     8' Aeoline            73 pipes
     8' Salicional         73 pipes
     8' Vox Celeste (TC)   61 pipes
     4' Orchestral Flute
     4' Salicet
 2-2/3' Quint
     2' Flautina
     8' Oboe               73 pipes
     8' Vox Humana (prepared)
        Tremulant
        Swell to Swell 16'
        Swell Unison Off
        Swell to Swell 4'

PEDAL ORGAN

    16' Open Diapason (GT)     12 pipes
    16' Bourdon (GT)           44 pipes
    16' Lieblich Gedeckt (SW)
     8' Flute
     8' Violoncello (GT)
        Great to Pedal 8'
        Swell to Pedal 8'

COMBINATION PISTONS

General 1 - 4 Thumb
  Great 1 - 4 Thumb (also affecting pedal stops)
  Swell 1 - 4 Thumb (also affecting pedal stops)

REVERSIBLE PISTONS

Great to Pedal
Sforzando

Documents

Contract and Factory Specification Contract and factory specification -Ryan-Michael Blake