Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 8800 (1956)

First Congregational Church
241 Cedar Avenue
Long Beach, CA

Images

1983 - Console (Photograph by Ken Stein, photographybystein.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1963)/Database Manager)

1956-03-21 - Chancel and Pipe Displays (Möller Promotional Photograph; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2001-01-16 - "Chancel, console and pipes" (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2001-01-16 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
57 stops
83 registers
7 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 thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-07-12 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The organ has full-length 32' Violone and 32' Bombarde; in 1989, a 5-manual Harris console was added, prepared for additions including a 2/14 Moller Artiste as an Antiphonal organ; later, the en-chamade Cor de Gabriel was added; in 1996, the Swell was renovated by Robert L. David and a 4' Flute was added to the division; the organ is now a 5/70. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> January 1957 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Long Beach, California
       First Congregational Church

       Möller   Op. 8800   1956   4/70
       ______________________________________________________
   
       GREAT (exposed)                    SWELL
   16' Quintaton            61        16' Flute Conique    61
    8' Diapason             61         8' Geigen Principal 61
    8' Bourdon              61         8' Gedeckt          61
    8' Gemshorn             61         8' Viole de Gambe   61
    4' Octave               61         8' Viole Celeste    61
    4' Rohrflöte            61         4' Oktav Geigen     61
2 2/3' Quint                61         4' Flute Harmonique 61
    2' Super Octave         61     2 2/3' Twelfth          61
   IV  Fourniture          244         2' Fifteenth        61
       Chimes               21       III  Plein Jeu       183
                                      16' Basson           61
       CHOIR                           8' Trompette        61
    8' Viola                61         8' Musette          61
    8' Spitzflöte           61         8' Vox Humana       61
    8' Spitzflöte Celeste   54         4' Rohr Schalmei    61
    8' Erzähler             61            Tremulant
    8' Erzähler Celeste     61            Sub
    4' Koppelflöte          61            Unison Off
2 2/3' Nazard               61            Super
    2' Blockflöte           61
1 3/5' Tierce               61            BRUSTWERK (on Swell)
   16' English Horn         61         4' Nachthorn        61
    8' Cromorne             61         2' Kleinprinzipal   61
    4' Clarino              61     1 1/3' Nasat            61
       Tremulant                       1' Sifflöte         61
       Sub                             8' Holzregal        61
       Unison Off                         Tremulant
       Super
                                          PEDAL
       POSITIV (on Choir)             32' Contra Violone   12 BO
    8' Quintade             61        16' Contrebasse      32
    4' Prinzipal            61        16' Bourdon          32
  III  Zimbel              183        16' Violone          BO
                                      16' Quintaton        GT
       BOMBARDE                       16' Flute Conique    SW
   16' Violone              61        16' Erzähler         12 CH
    8' Principal            61    10 2/3' Violone Quint    GT
5 1/3' Quint                61         8' Octave           32
    4' Principal Octave     61         8' Bourdon          12
    V  Harmonics           305         8' Viole            BO
   16' Contre Trompette     61         8' Flute Conique    SW
    8' Trompette Harmonique 61     5 1/3' Quint            32
    4' Clairon Harmonique   61         4' Super Octave     12
                                       4' Choral Bass      32
       BRUSTWERK-POSITIV (Bomb)    2 2/3' Octave Quint     12
    8' Quintade                        2' Octavin          12
    8' Prinzipal                       V  Harmonics        60 BO
    4' Nachthorn                      32' Bombarde   F/L   32
    2' Kleinprinzipal                 16' Bombarde         12
1 1/3' Nasat                          16' Basson           SW
    1' Sifflöte                       16' English Horn     CH
  III  Zimbel                          8' Bombarde         12
    8' Holzregal                       4' Bombarde         12
       Brustwerk Tremulant

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield April 24, 2012]

Websites

Organ - First Congregational Church, Long Beach - History and description, photograph, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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