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M. P. Möller Opus 10339 (1967)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Palo Alto, CA

Images

2008-09-01 - "Console, reader's platform, and organ grille" (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Console (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Pedal/Swell stopjamb (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Great stopjamb (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Nameplate (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Great pipes (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Swell pipes (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

2008-09-01 - Pedal Subbass (Photograph by Patrick Barrett/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
18 stops
13 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 (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 thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-09-12 - Offered for sale in 2008. -Database Manager

2008-09-21 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ is in stacked formation in a center chamber above the Reader's platform. A wooden grille with grillecloth covers the opening. The Great is over the Swell. The Pedal 16' Bourdon is in the Great chamber. The console sat in a center pit in front of the Reader's platform with the organist facing the platform. -Database Manager

2008-10-26 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ has been acquired by the Pipe Organ Foundation of Mercer Island, WA. It will be used to augment the 1940 Möller (Op. 6861) at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, a 2/7 given by the Class of 1940 as a memorial gift. -Database Manager

2009-01-24 - Updated through information factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from James Welch Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Palo Alto, California
First Church of Christ, Scientist

M. P. Möller Organ, Opus 10339 (1967)

STOPLIST

GREAT
Principal 8
Erzahler 8
Erzahler Celeste 8 (T.C.)
Octave 4
Fifteenth 2
Trompette 8
Chimes
Tremulant
 
SWELL
Gedeckt 8
Viola Pomposa 8
Viola Celeste 8 (T.C.)
Koppelflöte 4
Harmonic Flute 4
Krummhorn 8
Tremulant
 
PEDAL
Broudon 16
Gedeckt 16
Major Bass 8
Gedeckt 8
Trompette 16
Trompette 8

[Posted to PIPORG-L September 11, 2008 by Romain Kang on behalf of James Welch]

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