First Baptist Church
Bluefield, WV
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Chancel Pipe Facade (2013) (Black Dog Salvage/Database Manager)
Unknown - Swell, Pedal, and Great Stopkeys (2013) (Photograph by Black Dog Salvage (used with permission)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pedalboard, 2013. (Photograph by Black Dog Salvage (used with permission)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Coupler Stack (2013) (Photograph by Black Dog Salvage (used with permission)/Database Manager)
Unknown - Organ on display in Salvage Warehouse (2013) (Photograph by Black Dog Salvage/Database Manager)
Unknown - Pedal 16' Bourdon in Salvage Warehouse (2013) (Photograph by Black Dog Salvage (used with permission)/Database Manager)
Date unknown - Organ facade in front gallery (Black Dog Salvage/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Organ facade (Black Dog Salvage/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Keydesk (Black Dog Salvage/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Console: Great stops (Black Dog Salvage/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Console: pedalboard, expression shoes, lead action tubing (Black Dog Salvage/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 15 stops
- 22 registers
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Radiating
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe 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
2012-06-03 - Updated through online information from Ed Moore. -Database Manager
2013-11-02 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ has been removed by an undocumented person or firm and is being brokered and stored by Black Dog Salvage in Roanoke, Virginia. It is listed on ebay for $8,000.00 at present (2013-10-31) and has 21 people watching, but no bids. -Database Manager
2014-01-30 - Updated through online information from Shawn P. Keith. -- Based on examination of photos of listing on eBay, January 19, 2014, and knowledge of other similar extant examples of Moller's work of the time period. -Database Manager
2024-11-27 - Updated through online information from Jody Cundiff of Black Dog Salvage (November 21, 2024): Unfortunately, the organ wasn't sold in one piece 🙁 so I don't really have a buyer's name. I'm so sorry. -James R. Stettner
Stoplist
Stoplist from console photos on eBay, January 19, 2014 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Bluefield, West Virginia
First Baptist Church
M.P. Moller, Opus 2672, vintage 1917
SWELL
Tremulant
8' Oboe Horn
8' Gamba
8' Dulciana
8' Vox Celeste
4' Flute
8' Clarabella
16' Bourdon
16' Swell
4' Swell
PEDAL
16' Bourdon
16' Lieblich Gedeckt
Swell to Pedal (8', not labeled on tab)
Great to Pedal (8', not labeled on tab)
GREAT - 61 notes
8' Oboe Horn
8' Gamba
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
8' Rohr Flute
8' Open Diapason
16' Swell to Great
Swell to Great (8', not labeled on tab)
4' Swell to Great
16' Great
4' Great
Based on the stoplist and other extant examples of Moller's work of the period, it can be reasonably
assumed that the main chests are membrane chests (not pitman as in later examples). It can also be
reasonably assumed that the 8' Oboe Horn, 8' Gamba, and 8' Dulciana are duplexed from the Swell to the
Great, and located inside the expression box. It can be further assumed that the Swell 16' Bourdon is
duplexed to the Pedal as the 16' Lieblich Gedackt. Tabs are listed in the actual console order from left
to right, not in traditional stoplist order. Several electrically activated toe pistons were added to the
organ at some point, but no indicators to show what they may have accomplished. Original console
nomenclature indicates there was a Great to Pedal reversible toe stud when the organ was built; the
original toe stud apparently does not survive.
[Received from Shawn P. Keith 2014-01-22.]
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