Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 5897 (1930)

St. Joseph Hospital: Chapel
Ashland, WI

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
7 stops
12 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-12-07 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2014-05-28 - At some point, the hospital was renamed Ashland Community Hospital; it closed in 1972 and was eventually demolished. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Ashland, Wisconsin
   St. Joseph Hospital

   Möller   Op. 5897   1930   2/7
   _____________________________________________________________________

   GREAT                  SWELL                      PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 61    8' Stopped Diapason 61    16' Bourdon          32
8' Stopped Flute SW    8' Salicional       61    16' Lieblich Gedeckt -- (b)
8' Dulciana      61    8' Vox Celeste      49
4' Flute d'Amour SW    8' Dolce   (a)      GT
   Super               4' Flute            12
                       8' Vox Humana       61
                          Sub
                          Super

   Tremulant for entire organ
   
a  Notation on specification says 'almost Aeoline'
b  Plays 16' Bourdon on soft wind

   Organ in its own swell box; casing and display pipes by factory;
   seats 300.

   The contract was dated 10/27/30 with delivery scheduled for 12/15/30

            [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 28, 2014]

Documents

(1930-10-01) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak