Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 2668 (1919)

Messiah Lutheran Church / AME Union Church: Lower Auditorium
16th and Jefferson Sts.
Philadelphia, PA

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

Images

2013-10-28 - Console (Photograph by Damien Jones/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
31 stops
28 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons

Notes

2009-09-23 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2012-01-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Dedicatory recital December 14, 1919, by the church's organist, G. Leroy Lindsay. -Database Manager

2012-06-14 - Updated through online information from Damien Jones. -- Organ was gutted ten years ago replaced with an electronic. Original console is sitting in lower auditorium -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> January 1920 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Messiah Lutheran Church

    Möller   Op. 2668   1919   3/28
    ________________________________________________

    GREAT                        SWELL
 8' 1st Open Diapason 61     16' Bourdon          73
 8' 2nd Open Dipason  73      8' Open Diapason    73
 8' Doppelflöte       61      8' Stopped Diapason 73
 8' Gamba             61      8' Salicional       73
 8' Melodia           61      8' Vox Celeste      61
 8' Viole d'Amour     61      8' Aeoline          73
 4' Octave            61      4' Flute Harmonique 73
 2' Piccolo           61      8' Cornopean        73
 8' Tuba              61      8' Oboe             73
    Sub                          Tremolo
    Unison Off                   Sub
    Super                        Unison Off
                                 Super
    ECHO
 8' Fern Flute        73         CHOIR
 8' Unda Maris        61      8' Violin Diapason  73
 8' Vox Humana        73      8' Viola            73
    Tremolo                   8' Concert Flute    73
    Chimes            25      8' Dulciana         73
                              4' Rohr Flute       73
    PEDAL                     8' Clarinet         73
16' Dbl Open Diapason 32         Tremolo
16' Bourdon           32         Sub
16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW         Unison Off
 8' Flute             12         Super

 [Received online from Jeff Scofield Janaury 1, 2012]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON January 1920 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield