Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 3786 (1924)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
509 S. Pearl Ave.
Joplin, MO

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

Images

Unknown - Chancel and Fa?ade (1950s Photograph from church archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
18 stops
34 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
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 coupler toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-28 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2012-08-15 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- A new Sanctuary was completed on the same site in 1975, and the 1923 Moller organ was relocated and rebuilt in the new Sanctuary that same year. -Database Manager

2012-12-17 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Joplin, Missouri
    First Presbyterian Church

    Moller   Op. 3786   1924   3/18
    ______________________________________________

    GREAT                      SWELL
16' Open Diapason 73       16' Bourdon          61
 8' Open Diapason 12        8' Violin Diapason  73
 8' Doppel Floete 73        8' Gedeckt          12
 8' Melodia       73        8' Doppel Floete    GT
 8' Gamba         73        8' Gamba            GT
 8' Salicional    73        8' Salicional       GT
 4' Flute SW Bdn  SW        8' Vox Celeste      61
 8' Tuba          73        8' Aeoline          73
    Sub                     4' Flute Traverso   GT
    Unison Off              4' Orchestral Flute 12
    Super               2 2/3' Twelfth           7
                            2' Piccolo           5
    ECHO                    8' Tuba             GT
 8' Echo Flute    61        8' Oboe             73
 8' Muted Viole   61        8' Clarinet         61
 8' Viole Celeste 49        8' Vox Humana       61
 4' Fern Flute    12           Tremulant
 8' Vox Humana    61           Sub
    Tremulant                  Unison Off
    Sub                        Super
    Super
    Chimes        20           PEDAL
                           16' Open Diapason    GT
                           16' Bourdon          32
                           16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
                            8' Octave           GT
                            8' Flute            12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield December 15, 2012]

Documents

(1923-07-25) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#47319 - Unknown Builder (1975)