Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 3941 (1924)

Overbrook Baptist Church
Philadelphia, PA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
16 stops
32 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-30 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2021-09-06 - Google no longer has any mention of the church, -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Overbrook Baptist Church

    Möller   Op. 3941   1924   3/16
    ________________________________________________

    GREAT (encl w/CH)           SWELL
16' Bourdon         61      16' Lieblich Gedeckt  61
 8' Diapason Phonon 61       8' Horn Diapason     73
 8' Dulciana        73       8' Stopped Diapason  12
 8' Melodia         73       8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
 4' Octave          CH       8' Salicional        73 a 
 4' Flute d'Amour   73       8' Vox Celeste       61
    Sub                      4' Rohr Flute        12
    Super                    4' Salicet           --
                         2 2/3' Twelfth            7
    CHOIR                    2' Piccolo            5
 8' Open Diapason   73   1 3/5' Tiercena          --
 8' Viola d'Gamba   73     III  Mixture           -- b
 8' Dulciana        GT       8' Oboe              73
 8' Melodia         GT       8' Vox Humana        61
 4' Flute d'Amour   GT          Tremulant
 8' Clarinet        73          Sub
    Tremulant GT/CH             Unison Off
    Sub                         Super
    Unison Off
    Super                       PEDAL
                            16' Bourdon           32 c
 a  very soft               16' Bourdon           GT
 b  draws 3 previous        16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
 c  extra large              8' Flute Major       12
                             8' Flauto Dolce      SW
                             8' Violoncello       CH

     [Received from Jeff Scofield September 6, 2021]

Documents

(1924-02-18) Factory Specifications Factory specifications -Jeff Scofield