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M. P. Möller Opus 864 (1908)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church
315 Warren Street
Fall River, MA

OHS convention: 2005

Images

2004-05-10 - Chancel, Keydesk, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2004-05-10 - Chancel and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2004-05-10 - Keydesk (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2005-07-14 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-07-14 - Facade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2005-07-14 - Keydesk (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
9 stops
9 registers
3 divisions
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2009-04-23 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2014-06-09 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- While the pedalboard is flat and parallel, the sharps are radiating - being shortest in the middle and getting longer towards the bass and the treble. -Database Manager

2022-05-03 - On April 21, 1907, the Standing Committee voted to accept a gift of $750 from the Andrew Carnegie Fund toward the cost of a new organ. On February 9, 1908, the Committee contracted M. P. Moller for a two-manual, nine-rank mechanical-action instrument (Op. 864) with an Orgoblo motor. It cost $1,500. The Great and Swell pipes are planted in an "N" layout on the chests, chromatic from t.C. All stops have double sliders, corresponding to the two rows of pipes on each toeboard. This extraordinarily wellcrafted organ is unaltered, and retains its double-rise inverted-fold reservoir and feeders. The leather appears to be original, the hand feeders work, and the wind can be raised effortlessly. -- *2005 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist from Sandra Hill Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Luke's Episcopal Church 
Fall River, Massachusetts  

M.P. MOLLER, Opus 864, 1908 - Original Specifications  
<b>___________________________________</b>

<u>GREAT</u>
Gr.  8'  Open Diapason           61
Gr.  8'  Dulciana                61
Gr.  8'  Melodia                 61
Gr.  4'  Octave                  61


<u>SWELL (Expressive)</u>
Sw.  8'  Violin Diapason         61
Sw.  8'  Stopped Diapason        61
Sw.  8'  Aeolina                 61
Sw.  4   Flute d'Amour           61
         Swell Tremolo


<u>PEDAL</u>
Ped. 16' Bourdon                 30


<u>COUPLERS (Drawknob)</u>
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Sw to Gr Super Octave


<u>FOOT TRUNDLES</u>
Great Forte  -
Great Piano  -


<u>PEDAL MOVEMENTS</u>
Swell Expression             (bal.)


<u>NOTES</u>
The church has nice acoustics and the sound gets out nicely.

[Posted to PipeChat July 24, 2010.]