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M. P. Möller Opus 2713 (1919ca.)

Irving Female College
415-413 E Main Street
Mechanicsburg, PA

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


Consoles

Main


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

2015-04-29 - The school closed in 1929. -Database Manager

2015-05-05 - Information received via e-mail from Karl Moyer: --<br>Möller Op. 2713 was in a small college, Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg PA, which school, however closed in 1929. (Victim of the fiscal troubles of the times?) Such a school no longer exists. I have not ascertained where the organ went, etc., etc. , though some of there historical items went to Cumberland County (PA) Historical Society. -Database Manager

2023-09-28 - Reference given to the pipe organ in the chapel being used in 1902. Builder unknown at this time. *Harrisburg Daily Independent*, 10 Mar 1902, Mon · Page 3: "The pipe organ in the chapel is also in use most of the day by students studying the organ. The students of the music department have greatly enjoyed the concerts given in the Harrisburg opera house by the Philadelphia orchestra." -Paul R. Marchesano


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