Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 10611 (1970ca.)

Holy Innocents Catholic Church: Church
3011 Landis Street
Pittsburgh, PA

Images

1970-03-21 - Nave, Balcony, Console, and Pipe Display (Möller Promotional Photo; collection of Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2009 - Organ in rear gallery (Church Facebook page /Andrew Scanlon)

2019 - Church exterior side (Karpelis Manuscript Museum /Andrew Scanlon)

2019 - Church exterior front (Karpelis Manuscript Museum /Andrew Scanlon)

btw 2009 and 2016 - Church interior (Facebook page /Andrew Scanlon)

Before 1960 - Church exterior (Historic postcard/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
28 stops
22 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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-02-13 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager

2009-09-26 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Unusual for an organ of this size, there are no divisional pistons - just six generals -Database Manager

2024-03-07 - Parish closed in 2016. As of 2019, the building is now a branch of the Karpelis Manuscript Museum. https://www.karpeles.com/visit/pittsburgh-pennsylvania/ -Andrew Scanlon

Stoplist

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

        Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
        Holy Innocents Catholic Church

        Möller   Op. 10611   1970   3/29

        GREAT                       POSITIV
     8' Principal 61             8' Nasonflöte 61
     8' Rohrflöte 61             4' Koppelflöte 61
     4' Octav 61                 2' Principal 61
III-IV  Mixtur 208           1 1/3' Quinte 61
     8' Trompete                 8' Krummhorn 61
                                    Tremulant
        SWELL
     8' Bourdon 61                  PEDAL
     8' Viole de Gambe 61       16' Principal 32
     8' Viole Celeste 49 tc     16' Rohrbourdon 12 SW
     4' Principal 61             8' Octave 12
     2' Blockflöte 61            8' Bourdon SW
    II  Sesquialter 98 tc        4' Nachthorn 32
   III  Scharf 183               2' Nachthorn 12
     8' Trompette 61            II  Mixture 64
     4' Oboe Schalmei 61        16' Posaune 12 GT
        Tremulant                4' Clarion GT

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield September 26, 2009.]

Documents

(1969-08-14) Factory specifications, via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield