Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 1493 (1912)

Gordon's (Loew's Star) Theatre
71-77 S. Clinton Ave.
Rochester, NY

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

Images

Unknown - Mr. R. H. Warren at the Console (Photograph from the OHS Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
20 stops
48 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2009-06-26 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2014-03-01 - Shipped December 12, 1912; theatre renamed Loew's Star Theatre 1920; razed in 1927 and organ moved to Monroe Ave. Methodist Church, Rochester NY, where it burned with the church on May 18, 1972. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory ledger contract Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Rochester, New York
    Gordon's Theatre

    Möller   Op. 1493   1912   4/20
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    MANUAL II (Great)              MANUAL I (Choir)             PEDAL
16' Contra Bass         61      8' Double Flute      GT     16' Diapason       30
 8' Open Diapason       61      8' Brilliant Strings GT     16' Contra Bass    GT 
 8' Great Flute         61      8' Muted String      GT      8' Octave         12
 8' Double Flute        61      8' Gamba             GT      8' Flute          GT
 8' Gamba               61      4' Boehm Flute       GT     16' Tuba Major     SW
 8' Brilliant Strings   61      2' Piccolo           GT      8' Tuba Mirabilis SW
 8' Muted String        61      8' Trumpet           GT      4' Tuba Clarion   SW
 4' Boehm Flute         61         Tremolo                      Bass Drum
 2' Piccolo             36         Sub                          Symbols [sic]
 8' Trumpet             61         Super                        Triangle
    Tremolo                        Chimes            GT         Snare Drum
    Sub                            Harp              GT
    Super                          Glockenspiel      GT         Pneumatic vibrato
    Chimes              20                                      for First and
    Harp                54         MANUAL IV (Solo)             Second expressive
    Glockenspiel (Harp) --      8' Concert Flute     SW         division
                                8' Viol              SW
    MANUAL III (Swell)          8' Viol Celeste      SW         Adj Crescendo No. 1
 8' Concert Flute       61      4' Echo Flute        SW         Adj Crescendo No. 2
 8' Viol                61     16' Trombone          SW         Exp 1st Expressive
 8' Viol Celeste        49      8' Tuba              SW         Exp 2nd Expressive
 4' Echo Flute          61      8' Trumpet           SW
16' Trombone            61      8' French Horn       SW
 8' Tuba (Cornet)       12      8' Oboe              SW
 8' Trumpet             61      8' Clarinet          SW
 8' French Horn         61      8' Vox Humana        SW
 8' Oboe                61      4' Clarion           SW
 8' Clarinet            61         Tremolo
 8' Vox Humana          61         Sub
 4' Clarion             12         Unison Off
    Tremolo                        Super
    Sub
    Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield March 1, 2014]