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M. P. Möller Opus 9238 (1959)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
5 West Montgomery Ave.
Ardmore, PA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
26 stops
42 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2008-12-05 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2009-04-20 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Antiphonal added in 1970's -Database Manager

2011-03-30 - Updated through online information from Richard Alexander. -- 8-4-IV antiphonal Möller added '70's. Some tonal changes and console reniovation Petty-Madden '90's. Original Möller an Ernest White job on low pressure, enchambered, in this long, dead Gothic church. -Database Manager

2020-11-29 - Along with the rest of the sanctuary expansion, this entirely-new instrument was a gift of J. Howard Pew in memory of his wife. Over the succeeding years, the long nave of the enlarged sanctuary presented an acoustical challenge that required changes and augmentations to the Moehler organ. In the 1970s, an antiphonal organ was added to the back of the sanctuary. - - from a church history of the organs. -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

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

Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Ardmore Presbyterian Church

Möller   Op. 9238   1959   3/33

       GREAT                       CHOIR
   16' Quintaton 61             8' Bourdon 61
    8' Principal 61             8' Gemshorn 61
    8' Rohrflöte 61             8' Gemshorn Celeste 49
    8' Quintaton 12             4' Nachthorn 61
    4' Octave 61                2' Principal 61
    2' Waldflöte 61            II  Sesquialtera 122
  III  Fourniture 183          II  Zimbel 122
       Tremulant                8' Schalmei 61
       Unison Off                  Tremulant
       Chimes 25 (Deagan K)        Sub
       Carillonic Bells            Unison Off
                                   Super
       SWELL
   16' Rohrgedeckt 61              PEDAL
    8' Gedeckt 12              16' Soubasse 32
    8' Viole de Gambe 61       16' Quintaton GT
    8' Viole Celeste 61        16' Rohrgedeckt SW
    4' Prestant 61              8' Spitzprinzipal 32
    4' Lochgedeckt 61           8' Bourdon 12
2 2/3' Nazard 61                8' Rohrflöte GT
  III  Plein Jeu 183            8' Gedeckt SW
   16' Bassoon 61  L/2          4' Octave 12
    8' Trompette 61             4' Rohrflöte GT
    8' Bassoon 12               2' Octavin 12
    4' Hautbois 61  L/2         2' Rohrflöte GT
       Tremulant               16' Trumpet 32
       Sub                     16' Bassoon SW
       Unison Off               8' Trumpet 12
       Super                    4' Trumpet 12

 [Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 20, 2009.]

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