Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 3314 (1922)

Christ Church Cathedral, Episcopal: Cathedral
2919 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA

OHS convention: 1989

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

Images

2008-08-01 - Cathedral exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
46 stops
41 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2009-09-30 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2012-05-04 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Retained 866 pipes from the previous organ, a Jardine; subsequent revisions and tonal and additions, some made by John Ballard in 1982 and others by Goulding & Wood, 1983-1986. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       New Orleans, Louisiana
       Christ Church Cathedral

       Möller   Op. 3314   3/45   1922
       ____________________________________________________

       Organ on 5" wind, except for Pedal Trombone on 12"

       GREAT                            SWEL
   16' Open Diapason     73         16' Bourdon          73 a
    8' 1st Open Diapason 73 a        8' Open Diapason    73 a
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 73          8' Stopped Diapason 73 a
    8' Gross Flute       73          8' Viol D'Orchestra 73
    8' Viol D'Gamba      73          8' Salicional       73
    8' Melodia           73          8' Aeoline          73
    4' Principal         73 a        8' Vox Celeste      61
    4' Flute D'Amour     73 a        8' Flute Harmonique 73
2 2/3' Twelfth           61          4' Principal        73
    2' Fifteenth         61 b        4' Flute Traverso   73
  III  Mixture          183          2' Flautino         61 b
    8' Trumpet           61        III  Dolce Cornet    183 c
    4' Clarion           12          8' Cornopean        73
       Sub                           8' Oboe             73
       Unison Cancel                 8' Vox Humana       61 b/d
       Super                            Tremolo
                                        Sub
       CHOIR                            Unison Cancel
    8' Violin Diapason   73             Super
    8' Clarabella        73
    8' Concert Flute     73             PEDAL
    8' Quintadena        73         32' Contra Bourdon   12
    8' Dulciana          73         16' Open Diapason    32 e
    4' Flute             73 a       16' Bourdon          32 e
    2' Piccolo           61 b       16' Violone          32
    8' Clarinet          73         16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
       Tremolo                  10 2/3' Quint            32
       Sub                           8' Octave           12 
       Unison Cancel                 8' Bass Flute       12
       Super                         8' Cello            GT
                                    16' Trombone         32

    a  58 old pipes, 15 new
    b  58 old pipes, 3 new
    c  174 old pipes, 3 new
    d  to be placed in separate box in Swell
    e  27 old pipes, 17 new

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 4, 2012]

Documents

(1922-03-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON March 1922 Description and stoplist -Jeff Scofield
(1922-01-27) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

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