Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 10409 (1968)

West Virginia University: Canady Creative Arts Center | Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre
1 Fine Arts Drive
Morgantown, WV

Images

2018-04-11 - Left stop jamb (Photograph by Tyler Cooper/Database Manager)

2018-04-11 - Right stop jamb (Photograph by Tyler Cooper/Database Manager)

1968-03-21 - Stage, Organ Cases, and Consoles (Möller Promotional Photo; image from the collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2024-11-17 - Organ Professor Emeritus: William P. Haller, DMA, FAGO, gives a tonal demonstration to the organ studio (Badyn Woodford/Badyn Woodford)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
37 stops
49 registers
4 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 (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Auxiliary

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
2 manuals
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)

Notes

2009-01-24 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2009-08-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The organ is on four movable platforms, with cables from each division detachable at the console; the console had four motor starter switches; the Postiv Organ had its own detached and movable 2-manual rocker-tablet console; the hall seats 1,444 people. -Database Manager

2011-10-10 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2018-04-13 - Updated by Tyler Cooper, who maintains the organ.<br> The organ is occasionally used by the School of Music on various concerts to accompany ensembles such as the WVU Symphony Orchestra and the WVU Wind Symphony. The organ gets used in a performance setting on average of four times a year. When not in use, the entire organ is moved into its storage room off stage right. All four divisions, as well as the main console, reside in this room. To move each division, an electric Cushman brand stage tractor is used to tow and nudge the platforms into place. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> April 1967 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

      Morgantown, West Virginia
      West Virginia University

      Möller   Op. 10409   1968   3/50
      ______________________________________________________________________

      GREAT                      SWELL                      2-MANUAL CONSOLE
  16' Quintaton     61        8' Rohrflöte      61
   8' Principal     61        8' Viole de Gambe 61          HAUPTWERK
   8' Bourdon       61        8' Viole Celeste  61
   4' Octave        61        4' Principal      61       8' Holzgedeckt
   4' Spitzflöte    61        4' Blockflöte     61       4' Principal
   2' Super Octave  61        2' Waldflöte      61       2' Flachflöte
  IV  Fourniture   244       II  Sesquialtera  122     III  Zimbel
 III  Cymbale      183    III-V  Scharf        269       8' Tricherregal
   8' Trompete      61       16' Basson         61 * 
                              8' Trompette      61          BRUSTWERK
      PEDAL                   4' Clairon        61       
  16' Principal     32           Tremulant               8' Quintadena
  16' Subbass       32           Sub                     4' Rohrflöte
  16' Quintaton     GT           Unison Off              2' Oktav
  16' Gedeckt       12 PO        Super               1 1/3' Larigot
   8' Octave        12                                   1' Sifflöte
   8' Quintaton     GT           POSITIV
   8' Rohrflöte     SW        8' Quintadena     61          PEDAL
   4' Choralbass    32        8' Holzgedeckt    61
   4' Nachthorn     32        4' Principal      61      16' Gedeckt
   2' Nachthorn     12        4' Rohrflöte      61       8' Gedeckt
VIII  Cornet        --        2' Oktav          61       4' Octave
  II  Grave Mixture 64        2' Flachflöte     61       4' Rohrflöte
  II  Rauschpfeife  24    1 1/3' Larigot        61       2' Flachflöte
  16' Trumpet       32        1' Sifflöte       61
  16' Basson        SW      III  Zimbel        183
   8' Trumpet       12        8' Krummhorn      61
   4' Trumpet       12        4' Trichterregal  61
   4' Basson        SW           Tremulant
                                 Sub
   *  1-18 L/2                   Unison Off

                 [Received from Jeff Scofield August 31, 2009]