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M. P. Möller Opus 1883 (1914)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
120 E. Sixth Street
Mount Vernon, IN

Images

2013-03-06 - Organ Case and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Dennis Carr/Database Manager)

2013-03-06 - Chancel, Organ Case, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Dennis Carr/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
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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)
Has crescendo
Has coupler trundles

Notes

2009-08-30 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2011-12-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Installed in 1914 and dedicated in April 1915; rebuilt and electrified in 1955 by Möller, who also provided a new console. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from unrecorded source Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Mount Vernon, Indiana
   First Presbyterian Church

   Möller   Op. 1883   1914   2/18

   
GREAT
   8  Gr. Open Diapason          61
   8  Gr. Doppel Floete          61
   8  Gr. Melodia                61
   8  Gr. Dulciana               61
   4  Gr. Octave                 61

   Great 4'

SWELL (Expressive)
   16 Sw. Bourdon                73
   8  Sw. Open Diapason          73   1-12 open wood
   8  Sw. Stopped Diapason       73
   8  Sw. Salicional             73
   8  Sw. Voix Celeste      (tc) 61
   8  Sw. Aeoline                73
   4  Sw. Flute Harmonique       73
   4  Sw. Violina                73
   2  Sw. Flautino               61
   8  Sw. Oboe & Bassoon         73
      Tremulant

   Swell Unison Separatn
   Swell 4

PEDAL
   16 Ped. Bourdon               30
   16 Ped. Lieblich Gedeckt (Sw) --
   8  Ped. Bass Flute            12

COUPLERS
   Undocumented

FINGER PISTONS
   Undocumented

FOOT LEVERS (Labeled)
   Gr. to Ped. Reversible     (rev)   [Likely]
 
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression          (bal.)
   Crescendo                 (bal.)

ACTION: T-P primary & stop (membrane chests)
VOICES: 16
STOPS: 18
RANKS: 16
PIPES: 1,053


[Received online from Jeff Scofield December 27, 2011]

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