Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 8533 (1953)

First Lutheran Church
Fifth & Bonneville
Pasco, WA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
20 stops
3 registers
1 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets 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)
Combination action: None

Notes

2008-07-12 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. ARTISTE -Database Manager

2012-05-20 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console May 24, 1996 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pasco, Washington
First Lutheran Church

M.P. MÖLLER, Opus 8533, 1953 - Original Specifications

GREAT (Expressive) SWELL (Expressive) PEDAL (Expressive)
8 Diapason 8 Gedeckt 16 Bourdon
8 Gedeckt 8 Viola 8 Gedeckt
8 Viola 4 Flute 8 Viola
4 Octave 4 Viola 5-1/3 Quint
4 Flute 2-2/3 Nazard 4 Octave
4 Viola 2 Flautino 4 Flute
2-2/3 Twelfth Tremolo
2 Fifteenth
Chimes

STOP / RANK / PIPE ANALYSIS
16 Bourdon (Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt. Metal.
8 Diapason (Gt) -- Tenor C. From the 4' Octave. 1-12 from 8'
Gedeckt & 8' Viola.
8 Gedeckt (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61 1-12 metal.
8 Viola (Gt/Sw/Ped) 61
5-1/3 Quint (Ped) -- Borrowed from the Gedeckt unit.
4 Octave (Gt/Ped) 61
4 Flute (Gt/Sw/Ped) 12 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
4 Viola (Gt/Sw) 12 Extension of the 8' Viola.
2-2/3 Nazard (Sw) 7 Extension of the 8' Gedeckt.
2-2/3 Twelfth (Gt) 7 Extension of the 8' Viola.
2 Flautino (Sw) -- From the Gedeckt unit. Breaks back to 4'
pitch at g# 57.
2 Fifteenth (Gt) -- From the Viola unit. Breaks back to 4'
pitch at g# 57.
Tremolo (Sw) Affects the entire instrument.
Chimes (Gt) Console preparation.

PIPE SUMMARY

Gedeckt Viola Octave
92 pipes 80 pipes 61 pipes

COUPLERS PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell to Great [8] Expression (bal.)
Crescendo (bal.)

ACTION: E-P unit VOICES: 3 STOPS: 20 RANKS: 3 PIPES: 233

NOTES
This was a free-standing, encased “Artiste” organ with a detached console. The first 24 pipes of
the Gedeckt unit are of capped metal. The first 12 notes of the 8' Diapason are borrowed from the
8' Gedeckt and 8' Viola. The balance is from the 4' Octave.

In December, 1995, First Lutheran Church was given a used, 3-rank pipe organ originally built by
Balcom and Vaughan for Hull and Hull Funeral Home in Grants Pass, OR. Organist Walt Weaver and
parishioner Carl Swanson, who is an electrical engineer, along with volunteers, spent most of
1996 combining the two pipe organs into one instrument. A new Peterson solid state, Multiplex
relay was added.

Sources: Möller opus list, JRS, extant organ.