Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 6785 (1939)

Hanover College: Ball Chapel
Hanover, IN

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
15 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2013-09-16 - Updated through online information from John C. Ball. -- Tornado in 1973 damaged organ and it was destroyed and parted out. -Database Manager

2016-01-16 - The organ had a 5 1/3' Choir to Great coupler. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications via the OHS Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Hanover, Indiana
       Hanover College

       Möller   Op. 6785   1939   3/15
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT (encl w/CH)              SWELL

   16' Gemshorn         61         8' Stopped Flute    73
    8' Open Diapason    73         8' Salicional       73
    8' Gemshorn         12         8' Vox Celeste      61
    8' Flute            CH         4' Principal        73
    4' Octave           73         4' Flute Harmonique 73
    4' Gemshorn         12         8' Trumpet          73
2 2/3' Twelfth          61            Tremulant
    2' Fifteenth        61            Sub
       Unison Off                     Unison Off
       Super                          Super
       Blank                          Blank

       PEDAL                          CHOIR

   16' Violon           32         8' Claribel Flute   73
   16' Bourdon          32         8' Gemshorn         GT
   16' Gemshorn         GT         4' Gemshorn         GT
    8' Diapason         GT     2 2/3' Gemshorn          7 GT        
    8' Violon           12         2' Gemshorn          5 GT
    8' Bourdon          12         4' Clarion          73
    8' Gemshorn         GT            Tremulant
    4' Violon           12            Sub
    4' Gemshorn         GT            Unison Off
    4' Flute Harmonique SW            Super
   16' Trumpet          12 SW
    8' Trumpet          SW
    4' Trumpet          SW

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield January 16, 2016]

Documents

(1940-02-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON February 1940 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield
(1939-06-15) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak