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M. P. Möller Opus 253 (1899)

Masonic Temple
Salina, KS

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2009-03-22 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified through information in *List of More than 5200 Möller Pipe Organs* (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2009-03-23 - Sold to First Methodist Church, Liberty, Missouri ca. 1910. -Database Manager

2020-11-27 - "A 2,000 pipe organ will be placed in the Masonic temple at Salina soon. The temple is a particularly fine one." - Information from *Phillipsburg Herald* (Phillipsburg, Kan.), July 20, 1899 (p.7?). -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

FOOT TRUNDLES: Great Forte, Great Piano, Gr. to Ped. Rev., Swell Piano, Swell Forte; PEDAL MOVEMENTS: Swell Expression (balanced). Source: Salina Herald (Salina,Kansas); Friday, September 22, 1899; page 5 September 22, 1899

Great Open Diapason 8, Dulciana 8, Melodia 8, Echo Horn 4, Flute D'Amour 4

Swell Violin Diapason 8, Lieblich Gedeckt 16, Aeolina 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Vox Humana 8, Flautina 2, Tremolo

Pedal Lieblich Gedeckt 16, Sub Bourdon 16

Swell to Pedal 8 (Swell to Pedal Coupler), Great to Pedal 8 (Great to Pedal Coupler), Great to Great 4 (Great by Octaves Coupler), Swell to Great 8 (Swell to Great Coupler)

Documents

(1899-09-22) "Grand and Beautiful: The Pipe Organ Recital Pleases Many People," Salina (KS) Herald, Friday, September 22, 1899, 5, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/484387246. (Article on the dedicatory recital by Edward F. Kreiser "Tuesday night," with stoplist of the organ.) -Charles Eberline

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