Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2009-04-24 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2013-11-18 - This was a rebuild of the existing organ, which includes extending the manual and pedal compasses to 61 and 30; a second-hand Pedal Trombone as added, as well as three new Swell stops; the church was named a cathedral in 1912; replaced in 1920 by 4/39 Austin Op. 955, retaining some of the Moller. -Database Manager
2018-02-27 - Updated by William M. Worden, who gave this as the source of the information: Personal knowledge of the building and its predecessor.<br> <br>There is confusion here. This cannot be a rebuild of a previous organ in this building, because construction on the building was begun in 1908. The church was not named the cathedral in 1912; it was planned as and built as a cathedral. (It is called St. Paul's Cathedral in architectural publications in 1910, for example.) It is possible that this Moller is a rebuilding and enlargement of the organ from the previous St. Paul's Episcopal Church, which stood at the northwest corner of West Congress and Shelby in the center of Detroit. That church was the seat of the bishop from the establishment of the Episcopal diocese in 1832, but somehow never acquired the title of cathedral. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory ledger contract Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Detroit, Michigan
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Möller Op. 936 1909 3/39
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This was a rebuild of the existing organ; the
manual compass was enlarged from 58 to 61 and
the pedal from 27 to 30. The organ was replaced
11 years later by 4/39 Austin Op. 955, which
retained some of the Möller work.
GREAT SWELL
16' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Bass 12
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon Treble 49
8' Doppel Floete 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Viola d'Gamba 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
4' Octave 61 8' Viola 61
4' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Vox Celeste 61 a
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 8' Quintadena 61
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Aeolina 61 a
III Mixture 183 4' Flauto Traverso 61
8' Trumpet 61 4' Violina 61
2' Flautina 61
CHOIR III Dolce Cornet 183
8' Geigen Principal 61 8' Cornopean 61
8' Melodia 61 8' Oboe & Bassoon 61
8' Dulciana 61 8' Vox Humana 61 a
4' Fugara 61
4' Flute d'Amour 61 PEDAL
2' Piccolo 61 16' Open Diapason 30
8' Clarinet 61 16' Bourdon 30
8' Violincello 30
a addition 16' Tuba 30 b
b addition, second-hand
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