Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus M-9879 (1956)

Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist: Sanctuary
20011 Grand River Ave.
Detroit, MI

Images

2022-04-15 - Church exterior (Photograph by Pure Word Missionary Baptist, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Church interior (Photograph from an archival source: The American Organist, August 1939, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1958-03-21 - Console (Möller Promotional Photograph; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
38 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 (Meeting AGO Standards)
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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-02-04 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Console-only job for existing three-manual Hall organ. -Database Manager

2019-06-18 - The church building now belongs to Pure Word Missionary Baptist Church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the drawknob production order, OHS Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Detroit, Michigan
       Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist

       Möller   Op. M-9879   1956

       This was a console-only job for the
       existing Hall organ
       __________________________________________

       GREAT                     SWELL
    8' Open Diapason         16' Bourdon
    8' Stopped Diapason       8' Open Diapason
    8' Claribel Flute         8' Gedeckt
    8' Gemshorn               8' Viola da Gamba
    4' Octave                 8' Viola Celeste
    4' Flute                  8' Aeoline
2 2/3' Twelfth                4' Fugara
    2' Super Octave           4' Lieblich Flute
    8' Trumpet            2 2/3' Nazard
       Sub                    2' Flautino
       Unison Off             8' Cornopean
       Super                  8' Oboe
       Chimes                 8' Vox Humana
       Harp                      Tremolo
       Blank                     Sub
                                 Unison Off
       CHOIR                     Super
    8' Diapason Conique          Blank
    8' Orchestral Flute
    8' Dulciana                  PEDAL
    4' Koppelflöte           32' Resultant
2 2/3' Quint                 16' Open Diapason
    2' Fifteenth             16' Bourdon
    8' Clarinet              16' Lieblich Gedeckt
       Tremolo                8' Octave
       Sub                    8' Principal
       Unison Off             8' Flute
       Super                  8' Flauto Dolce
       Harp                   4' Super Octave
       Blank                     Chimes
       Blank                     Blank
                                 Blank

      [Received from Jeff Scofield May 23, 2014]

Documents

(1956-07-16) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#68442 - Hall Organ Co. (1939)