c 1913 - Organ in choir loft with a detached console (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Rick Erickson/Rick Erickson)
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
2016-09-24 - Updated through online information from Ryan Luckey. <br>I inspected the organ on Sept 20, 2016. The console was replaced with a supply-house model perhaps in the 1960s. All stops appear to be as originally designed. There is a harp in the chamber that is not connected. The Melodia has many dead notes and is unplayable due to a badly cracked board connecting the bottom boards to the toe boards. Typical Moller duplex wind chest. The Open Diapason and both pedal stops play on off-set unit chests. "1884" is stamped on the face of several wood pipes, but no number is obvious on wind chests or other components. The organ is in regular use. -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from the console Sept 20, 2016 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Polk, Nebraska
First Baptist Church
Möller, Opus 1884, ca. 1915
GREAT SWELL [expressive] PEDAL [in Swell chamber]
8 Open Diapason 73 pipes 8 Violin Diapason 61 pipes 16 Bourdon 44 pipes
8 Violin Diapason 8 Stopped Diapason 61 pipes 16 Lieblich Gedeckt 32 pipes
8 Stopped Diapason 8 Melodia 61 pipes 8 Flute [Ext.]
8 Melodia 8 Aeoline 61 pipes Blank
8 Aeoline 8 Vox Celeste 49 pipes Blank
4 Principal [Ext.] 4 Flute Traverse 61 pipes Chimes [plays on Swell]
4 Flute Traverse 8 Oboe D'Orchestre 61 flues 8 Gt to Pd
8 Vox Humana 61 pipes 8 Sw to Pd
16 Sw to Gt Tremulant
8 Sw to Gt
4 Sw to Gt 8 Pd to Sw [yes, that's right]
16 Gt to Gt 16 Sw to Sw
4 Gt to Gt Sw Unison Off [no engraving]
4 Sw to Sw
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