Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 2440 (1918)

College of Emporia: Admin. Bldg., basement chapel
1200 Commerce St.
Emporia, KS

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

Images

ca. 1919 - Organ console (Photograph from an archival source: Photo from website: https://www.c-of-e.org/history-timeline, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

After 1924 - 1919 Admin. with chapel in basement. (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

after 1924 - Aerial view of College of Emporia (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
42 stops
51 registers
6 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: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2009-09-05 - Identified through information in: List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Moller, 1928). This entry represents the installation of a new organ. -Database Manager

2011-12-13 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2023-02-05 - From the website: https://www.c-of-e.org/history-timeline : *1919 The basement and chapel of the new administration building were completed. Dean Hirschler designed the $30,000 pipe organ for the new Chapel. < snip > By June of 1924 the million dollars had been subscribed and the new building was ready for classes. The building was complete except for the facade.* -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> September 1918 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Emporia, Kansas
     College of Emporia
    
     Möller   Op. 2440   1918   4/42
     __________________________________________________

     GREAT (* encl in CH)        CHOIR
 16' Open Diapason           16' Dulciana
  8' 1st Open Diapason        8' Geigen Principal
  8' 2nd Open Diapason        8' Viola d'Gamba
* 8' Doppelflöte              8' Concert Flute
* 8' Melodia                  8' Dulciana
* 8' Gemshorn                 8' Unda Maris
  4' Octave                   4' Waldflöte
* 4' Flute d'Amour            2' Piccolo Harmonique
 16' Tuba            SO       8' Clarinet
  8' Tuba            SO          Tremolo

     SWELL                       CHOIR ECHO
 16' Bourdon                  8' Viole d'Amour
  8' Open Diapason            8' Unda Maris
  8' Stopped Diapason         8' Echo Flute
  8' Salicional               4' Fern Flute
  8' Vox Celeste              8' Vox Humana
  8' Quintadena                  Tremolo
  8' Aeoline                     Chimes
  4' Flauto Traverso
III  Dolce Cornet                SOLO
  8' Cornopean                8' Stentorphone
  8' Oboe                     8' Viole d'Orchestre
  8' Vox Humana               8' Unda Maris
     Tremolo                 16' Tuba Major
                              8' Tuba                12
     SWELL ECHO               4' Clarion             12
  8' Viole d'Amour
  8' Unda Maris                  PEDAL
  8' Echo Flute              16' Open Diapason       32
  4' Fern Flute     ext      16' Small Open Diapason GT
  8' Vox Humana              16' Bourdon             32
     Tremolo                 16' Violone             32
     Chimes          20      16' Lieblich Gedeckt    SW
                              8' Octave              12
                              8' Flute               12
                              8' Violoncello         12
                             16' Tuba                SO

 [Received online from Jeff Scofield  December 13, 2011]