Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 7040 (1941)

Calvary Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
217 Fernbrook Avenue
Wyncote, PA

Images

2021-01-10 - Chancel and Chambers (Photograph by Colin O'Malley/Colin O'Malley)

2021-01-10 - Console (Photograph by Colin O'Malley/Colin O'Malley)

2025-04-03 - Console (Luke Staisiunas, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-03 - Console center (Colin O'Malley, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2025-04-03 - Builder's nameplates (Luke Staisiunas, via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
19 registers
3 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-03-05 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2021-01-26 - I was recently hired as the Director of Music for this congregation. This Whitelegg Moller is in excellent mechanical shape, and with the exception of a new rectifier, is almost completely unaltered from its installation. The console however is in need of a facelift; at some point the original drawknobs were replaced with cheap plastic ones that were installed rather haphazardly. In addition the label plates (apparently an early plastic rather than ivory) have shrunk and cracked over time, and the Moller nameplate is missing. The ivory on the manuals is in excellent shape for 80 years of use. It is my plan to eventually have the drawknobs and labels replaced, and I am also contemplating upgrading the instrument to a solid-state control system. -Colin O'Malley

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken from the console

Wyncote, Pennsyvania
Calvary Presbyterian Church

MOLLER, Opus 7040, 1941 - Designed by Richard O. Whitelegg

    GREAT (Expressive)
8'  Open Diapason                73
8'  Claribel Flute               73
8'  Dulciana                     73
8'  Unda Maris                   73
4'  Octave                       73
II  Mixture                     146
    Tremolo
    Chimes (Deagan D)           (21)

Great to Great 16'
Great to Great 4'

    SWELL (Expressive)
16' Rohr Bourdon           (tc)  61
8'  Stopped Diapason             73
8'  Salicional                   73
8'  String Celeste               73
4'  Triangular Flute             73
8'  Trumpet                      73
    Tremolo

Swell to Swell 16'
Swell to Swell 4'

    PEDAL
16' Open Diapason          (Gt)  12
16' Bourdon                      32
8'  Diapason Octave        (Gt)  --
8'  Flute                        12 
4'  Super Octave           (Gt)  --
    Chimes                 (Gt)  --

    COUPLERS
Swell to Ped                  [8],4
Great to Ped                  [8],4
Swell to Great             16,[8],4

    FINGER PISTONS
General                       1 - 5
Swell                         1 - 5
Great                         1 - 5
Gen Can

    TOE STUDS
Pedal                         1 - 5
Gr to Ped                     (rev)
Full Organ  [also d-k]        (rev)
Combination setter

    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)
Great Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo                    (bal.)

ACTION: E-P

VOICES: 13

STOPS: 19; inc. chimes 

RANKS: 14

PIPES: 993


[Updated by James R. Stettner  2023-10-10.]

Documents

(1941-08-06) Factory specifications, courtesy of the OHS Archives Stoplist and accessories -Jeff Scofield