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M. P. Möller Opus 601 (1905)

Fifth Street Baptist Church
Richmond, VA

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


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Main


Notes

2009-04-06 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2009-11-04 - According to Richmond AGO's web site, replaced by Wicks in 1935 and relocated to St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console March 14, 2013 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Richmond, Virginia
St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church
2712 Second Avenue zip 23222

M. P. Moller, op. 601, 1905
GREAT 61 notes
8' Open Diapason
8' Dulciana
8' Melodia
4' Principal
4' Flute Harmonic
2' Fifteenth
8' Trumpet
SWELL 61 notes, enclosed
8' Viola
8' Salicional
8' Stopped Diapason
4' Violina
2' Piccolo
8' Oboe
Tremolo
PEDAL 30 notes
16' Double Open Diapason
Great to Pedal "off" and "on" pistons in Swell key slip
Swell to Pedal "off" and "on" pistons in Swell key slip
Swell to Great "off" and "on" pistons in Swell key slip
Swell to Great by Octaves "off" and "on" pistons in Swell key slip

Pedals, left to right (labelled above Swell keys):
Great to Pedal Reversible
Forte to Swell (mechanical combination)
Piano to Swell (mechanical combination)
Forte to Great (mechanical combination)
Piano to Great (mechanical combination)

mechanical action: backfall to Great; trackers & squares to Swell; chromatic chests with half of bottom octave rollered to other side in both Great and Swell. 
Electric action to Pedal chests, pneumatic, now fitted with electric primaries with metal screw-cap magnets (probably tubular pneumatic originally), 11 bass notes on bass side of organ and 19 trebles on other side. All couplers are mechanical. "Off" pistons are black and "on" pistons are white, with label between Off and On, and are entirely mechanical in activation.

Original double-rise reservoir extant and functioning, two feeder bellows removed. Elevator shaft installed beneath organ in 1987 resulted in legs of the Pedal chest on the treble end being sawed off and alternative support rigged by non-organ people. Similar modification to legs of reservoir. Concrete was poured under part treble end of organ to cap elevator shaft, with minor damage and spilled concrete on reservoir but function unaffected. Kinetic blower removed in early 2013 with replacement supplied gratis by John DeMajo.




 [Received from Bill Van Pelt 2013-03-16.]

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