Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 7341 (1947)

Grace Lutheran Church
Altoona, PA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
11 stops
21 registers
2 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-03-13 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2008-11-21 - Updated through on-line information from Steven Ickes. -- Grace Lutheran was torn down in the 1970s to make way for a podiatrist's office. I was only a kid at the time, so I don't know anything about the disposition of the instrument. -Database Manager

2009-04-17 - Updated through on-line information from Kevin M. Clemens. -- This instrument is extant and now plays in Grace Lutheran Church located in Bellwood, PA. Grace Lutheran Church gave the instrument to Grace Lutheran in Bellwood and as far as I know was rebuilt with no changes when placed in Grace Church in Bellwood. Mr. Ickes is correct that the Grace Lutheran in Altoona was torn down for a podiatrist's office. -Database Manager

2014-06-06 - Updated through online information from Filip Cerny. -- A visual inspection was performed on May 21, 2014. At some point in the early 1990's, Cannarsa Organ builders of Altoona fitted the organ with new direct electric wind chests, and Cannarsa solid state relays. The only items that are intact from the Moller factory are the pipework, chime tubes, pedal wind chests, reservoirs, and console. Several reed resonators were broken, and were laying on the wind chest. Pedal wind chests had several partial cyphers. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives

    Altoona, Pennsylvania
    Grace Lutheran Church

    Möller   Op. 7341   1947   2/11
    _______________________________________________

    GREAT (enclosed)            SWELL
 8' Diapason        73      16' Lieblichgedeckt  61
 8' Melodia         73       8' Violin Diapason  73
 8' Dulciana        73       8' Gedeckt          12
 4' Principal       73       8' Salicional       73
 4' Flute           --       8' Vox Celeste      61
    Tremolo                  4' Flute d'Amour    12
    Sub                  2 2/3' Nazard            7
    Unison Off               2' Piccolo           5
    Super                    8' Trumpet    (new) 73
    Chimes          21       8' Vox Humana (new) 61
                                Tremolo
    PEDAL                       Sub
16' Open Diapason   12 GT       Unison Off
16' Bourdon         32          Super
16' Lieblichgedeckt SW
 8' Flute           12
 8' Gedeckt         SW
 4' Octave Flute    12

   [Received from Jeff Scofield September 27, 2022]

Documents

(1946-05-29) Factory specifications, courtesy of the OHS Archives Stoplist and accessories -Jeff Scofield