Better Pipe Organ Database


M. P. Möller Opus 988 (1909)

First Presbyterian Church [orig.]
Grand Central Avenue and Broad Street
Horseheads, NY

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


Images


Date unknown - Church exterior (Tri-Counties Genealogy & History/Jim Stettner)

1906 - Church exterior (postcard/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Keydesk


Notes

2004-10-30 - [Previously] Unknown two-manual tracker gone. Possibly Möller Op. 988 (2--18) on the Möller list? Old church building purchased by 1st Baptist. -Database Manager

2009-04-24 - Identified through information in *List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs* (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Moller, 1928). -Database Manager

2013-06-13 - Updated through online information from David Poile. -- According to the Pastor, the congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Horseheads, NY sold their church building, which may or may not have housed the Moller op. 988, to another church in 1965. At about that time, that church tore down that building. Since 1965, the current congregation of First Presbyterian Church has had an electronic organ and does not presently have a pipe organ. [ed. 2025-02-12: The building was apparently sold to [a/the] Baptist Church. The congregation moved to 2943 Westinghouse Road] -Database Manager

2025-02-13 - Cost $1800. Half paid by Andrew Carnegie, 1909. Organ shipped June 22, 1909 via Pennsylvania RR. Case of quartered oak. See DOCUMENTS tab for correspondence. -Paul R. Marchesano


Stoplist

Mechanicals: Tremulant; Wind indicator; Crescendo indicator. Pedal Movements: Great to Pedal Reversible; Balanced Swell Pedal; Grand Crescendo Pedal. Ross Water Motor. Source: Factory ledger contract

Great Open Diapason 8 (metal), Dulciana 8 (metal), Concert Flute 8 (wood), Principal 4 (metal)

Swell Violin Diapason 8 (metal), Stopped Diapason 8 (wood), Aeolina 8 (metal), Flauto Traverso 4 (wood & metal), Oboe d'Orchestre 8 (metal), Voix Celeste 8

Pedal Bourdon 16 (wood)

Great to Pedal 8 (Tilting tablet), Swell to Great 8 (Tilting tablet), Swell to Pedal 8 (Tilting tablet), Swell to Great 16 (Tilting tablet), Swell to Great 4 (Tilting tablet), Swell to Swell 4 (Tilting tablet)


Documents


Other Links

Regrettably, it is not possible to display the information about the sponsor of this pipeorgandatabase entry or if there is a sponsor. Please see About Sponsors on Pipe Organ Database.