Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 4522 (1926)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
Decatur, GA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
31 stops
15 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys on Angled Jambs
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
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-31 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager

2013-04-18 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Pipes and other parts used by Kilgen in the assembly of their chapel organ for the church's new buildings in 1951; a 4/54 Kilgen was installed in the new 1800-seat sanctuary. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Decatur, Georgia
   First Baptist Church

   Möller   Op. 4522   1926   3/15
   _______________________________________________________

   GREAT (encl w/CH)                   SWELL
8' Open Diapason         61        16' Bourdon          61
8' Doppel Floete         73         8' Open Diapason    73
8' Melodia               73         8' Gedeckt          12
8' Viole d'Gamba         73         8' Salicional       73
8' Dulciana              73         8' Vox Celeste      61
4' Octave                CH         4' Orchestral Flute 12   
4' Flute Harmonic        CH         4' Salicet          --
   Tremulant                    2 2/3' Flute Twelfth     7
   Sub                              2' Flautina          5
   Unison Off                       8' Oboe             73
   Super                            8' Vox Humana       61
   Cathedral Chimes      20            Tremulant
                                       Sub
   CHOIR                               Unison Off
8' English Open Diapason 73            Super
8' Concert Flute         73            Harp Celeste     37
8' Doppel Floete         GT 
8' Viole d'Gamba         GT            PEDAL
8' Dulciana              GT        32' Resultant        --
4' Flute Traverso        GT        16' Open Diapason    32 a
   Tremulant                       16' Bourdon          32 b
   Sub                             16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
   Unison Off                       8' Octave           12 a
   Super                            8' Flute            12 b
                                    8' Violoncello      GT

a  enclosed in Great/Choir chamber
b  enclosed in Swell chamber

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield April 17, 2013]

Documents

(1925-10-20) Factory Documentation Factory Documentation courtesy of the OHS Archive -Roman Lizak