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M. P. Möller Opus 8590 (1954)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
201 South 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA

Images

1954-03-21 - Console with Möller installer (left) and Dr. Alexander McCurdy (right) (Möller Promotional Photograph; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1954-03-21 - Tonal Regulation and Tuning (Möller Promotional Photograph; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1954-03-21 - Möller Pipe Displays (chancel) with Austin Organ Case (back balcony) (Möller Promotional Photograph; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console on Lift
2 manuals
27 stops
14 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 (Details Unknown)
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 tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2009-02-27 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The contract was for a 3-division chancel organ divided between the transepts, as well as a 4-manual master console to control the new chancel organ and the 4/56 1927 Austin Op. 1445 behind a case in the rear gallery; Austin added a new master console in 1982; Reuter substantially rebuilt and revised the organ, with a new console, as Op. 2199 in 2000. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    First Presbyterian Church

    Transept divisions

    Möller   Op. 8590   1953   /18
    ______________________________________________________________

    GREAT (unencl) 3½"        SWELL  4"               PEDAL  4"
 8' Principal      61      8' Rohrflöte     73    16' Soubasse  32
 8' Spitzflöte     61      8' Gamba         73    16' Rohrflöte 12 SW
 4' Octave         61      8' Gamba Celeste 61     8' Principl  32
II  Grave Mixture 122      4' Principal     73     8' Bourdon   12
                         III  Plein Jeu    183     8' Rohrflöte SW
    GREAT (encl)   4"      8' Trompette     73     4' Bourdon   12
 8' Flauto Dolce   61         Tremolo              2' Bourdon   12
 8' Flauto Celeste 49
 8' Krummhorn      61
    Tremolo

         [Received online from Jeff Scofield June 9, 2012]

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