Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 6962 (1941)

First Christian Church
301 W. Second St.
Ottumwa, IA

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

Images

2018-07-24 - Console (Photograph by Douglas Schuck/Database Manager)

2018-07-24 - Combination Action (Photograph by Douglas Schuck/Database Manager)

2018-07-24 - Bass Offsets (Photograph by Douglas Schuck/Database Manager)

2018-07-24 - Pipework (Photograph by Douglas Schuck/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
17 stops
34 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-03-01 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2018-10-25 - Updated by T. Daniel Hancock, the builder. <br> <br>Pipework removed for material salvage in August 2018 by Quimby Pipe Organs following closure of the church. Mechanics not salvaged. The church is slated for adaptive reuse. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Factory Specification, via Jeff Scofield Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Ottumwa, Iowa
First Christian Church

M. P. Möller, Inc.   Opus 6962   1941         3 manuals, 34 registers, 17 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN (enc. w/Choir)             SWELL ORGAN
      8' Open Diapason          61          16' Bourdon                97
      8' Concert Flute          85           8' Open Diapason          73
      8' Gemshorn               73           8' Stopped Diapason       --
      8' Dulciana (Ch)          --           8' Salicional             73
      4' Octave                 73           8' Vox Celeste (TC)       61
      4' Flute Harmonic         --           4' Orchestral Flute       --
  2 2/3' Twelfth                61       2 2/3' Flute 12th             --
      2' Fifteenth              61           2' Flute 15th             --
         Chimes                 20 tubes     8' Trumpet                73
         Great 16                            8' Oboe                   73
         Great Unison                        8' Vox Humana             73
         Great 4                                Tremulant
                                                Swell 16
         CHOIR ORGAN                            Swell Unison
      8' Geigen Principal       73              Swell 4
      8' Concert Flute (Gt)     --
      8' Gemshorn (Gt)          --              PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Dulciana               85          16' Open Diapason (ext Gt) 12
      8' Unda Maris (prep)                  16' Bourdon                44
      4' Flute (Gt)             --          16' Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw)  --
      4' Dulciana               --           8' Flute Major (Bdn)      --
  2 2/3' Dulciana 12th          --           8' Dolce Flute (Sw)       --
      2' Dulciana 15th          --          16' Trumpet (ext Sw)       12
      8' Clarinet               73
         Tremulant                              COUPLERS
         Harp (prep)                            Great to Pedal      8
         Choir 16                               Swell to Pedal      8  4
         Choir Unison                           Choir to Pedal      8  4
         Choir 4                                Swell to Great  16  8  4
                                                Choir to Great  16  8  4
         COMBINATIONS (hold and set)            Swell to Choir  16  8  4
         Swell           5  (thumb)
         Great           5  (thumb)             ACCESSORIES
         Choir           5  (thumb)             Wind Indicator Light
         Pedal           4  (thumb)             Crescendo Indicator Lights
         General         6  (thumb)             Sforzando Indicator Light
         General Cancel     (thumb)             Voltmeter Dial

         REVERSIBLES                            EXPRESSION
         Great to Pedal     (toe)               Balanced Swell Pedal
         Swell to Pedal     (toe)               Balanced Great/Choir Pedal
         Sforzando          (toe)               Crescendo Pedal


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-07-24]

Documents

(1940-11-12) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak