Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder

First Methodist Church
125 N Lakeview Avenue
Winter Garden, FL

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

Images

2013-02-07 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Jeff Scofield)

2013-02-07 - Chancel (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Jeff Scofield)

2013-02-07 - Chancel and organ screens (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Jeff Scofield)

2013-02-07 - Stained Glass at the Rear of the Nave (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

2013-01-13 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Stephen Hall/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets 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 combination thumb pistons

Notes

2008-02-28 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. Portable -Database Manager

2013-02-05 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -Database Manager

2015-05-31 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- According to the church's website, the organ was removed in 2013 and donated to another Methodist church. The church now has a pipe/digital hybrid.(sources: http://www.fumcwg.org/history and http://www.centralmusic.biz/installations/ both accessed 5/24/2015) -Database Manager

2022-05-15 - Opus 6745 is a Möller Portable instrument and was contracted in 1939 at a cost of $1,400. -Roman Lizak

2022-05-16 - The organ started life as a 3-stop Moller Artiste; it was renovated and enlarged at some point by an unknown builder. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console February 7, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Winter Garden, Florida
First United Methodist Church

M.P. Möller Opus 6745,	ca 1939

GREAT				SWELL
 16	Bourdon			  8	Gedeckt
  8	Diapason		  8	Unda Maris
  8	Harmonic Flute		  8	Gamba
  8	Gamba			  8	Celeste		
  8	Dulciana		  4	Principal
  8	Echo Gamba		  4	Flute Harmonic
  4	Octave			  4	Gedeckt
  4	Flute d'Amour		  2 2/3	Nazard
  2	Principal		  2	Octave
	Mixture IV		  1 3/5	Tierce
  8	Tromba			  1 1/3	Quint
  8	Clarinet		  8	Trumpet	
	Tremolo			        Tremolo
	Chimes
	Harp

PEDAL
 32	Resultant
 16	Bourdon
 16	Lieblich Gedeckt
 16	Gamba
  8	Bourdon
  8	Open Diapason
  8	Gedeckt
  4	Choral Bass
 16	Trumpet
  8	Trumpet

 [Received from Stephen Hall 2013-02-08]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#68451 - M. P. Möller Opus 6745 (1939)