Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 8786 (1955)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
304 West Main Street
Lebanon, TN

Images

2023-10-23 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Melvin Potts, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Unknown - Church exterior ca. 1950. (Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

2008-06-27 - Church interior (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2008-06-27 - Church interior from floor (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2008-06-27 - Façade pipes and console (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2008-06-27 - Console (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

2008-06-27 - Console center (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

0008-06-22 - Church exterior (photographybystein.com/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
11 stops
24 registers
3 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-07-13 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2012-04-23 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2023-10-28 - The organ has been subsequently enlarged and rebuilt by both the Milnar Organ Co. and Barger & Nix. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist factory specifications 04-27-1955

Lebanon, Tennessee
First Presbyterian Church

Möller, Op. 8786, 1955, 2/11 - Original Specifications
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       GREAT (Expressive)
8'     Diapason                  73
8'     Flute Harmonic            73 =
8'     Dulciana                  73
4'     Octave                    61 +
4'     Flute                     12 =
2'     Super Octave              12 +
       Tremolo
       Chimes           (prep)  (--)
 
Great 16'
Great 4'


       SWELL (Expressive)
8'     Gedeckt                   73 *
8'     Viole de Gambe            73
8'     Viole Celeste       (tc)  61
4'     Octave Geigen             61 #
4'     Flute                     12 *
2 2/3' Nazard                    61
2'     Fifteenth                 12 #
8'     Oboe                      73 ◘
4'     Oboe Clarion              12 ◘
       Tremolo

Swell 16'
Swell Unison Off
Swell 4'


       PEDAL
16'    Subbass                   32 ♦
16'    Lieblich Gedeckt    (Sw)  12 *
8'     Subbass                   12 ♦
8'     Gedeckt             (Sw)  -- *
4'     Subbass                   12 ♦
4'     Flute               (Sw)  -- *
16'    Contra Oboe         (Sw)  12 ◘
8'     Oboe                (Sw)  -- ◘
4'     Oboe Clarion        (Sw)  -- ◘


       INTER-DIVISIONAL COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal                  8,4
Great to Pedal                  8,4

Swell to Great               16,8,4


       FINGER PISTONS
Full Organ                    1 - 4
Swell & Pedal                 1 - 4
  Sw. to Ped.                 (rev)
Great & Pedal                 1 - 4
  Gr. to Ped.                 (rev)
SFZ                           (rev)


       FOOT LEVERS
Swell to Pedal                (rev)
Great to Pedal                (rev)
Sforzando                     (rev)


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


ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic

VOICES: 11

STOPS: 24

RANKS: 11

PIPES: 822




[Received online from Jeff Scofield April 24, 2012]

Documents

(1954-11-19) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

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