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M. P. Möller Opus 4539 (1920s)

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

Images

1950s - Church exterior (Shoops is in the foreground and Colonial Park Reformed Church is in the background. Until 1925, both German congregations shared the Shoops building) (Unknown/Scott Siciliano)

before 1960 - Building exterior (Facebook group/Paul R. Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Other
• 2 manuals
• 13 stops
• 25 registers
• 3 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 (Details Unknown)
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Has crescendo
• Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

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

2024-04-18 - Updated through online information from Scott Siciliano: This instrument was relocated with its congregation to St. Mark's Lutheran Church in 1958. The Shoops building was demolished in the early 1960s. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

MECHANICALS: Tremulant. Crescendo Indicator; FINGER PISTONS: Great & Pedal 1-3, Swell & Pedal 1-3; TOE SPOONS: Gr. to Ped. Reversible; PEDAL MOVEMENTS: Expression (bal.), Crescendo (bal.). Source: From factory contract

Great Open Diapason 8, Melodia 8, Dulciana 8, Oboe 8, Viole d'Orchestre 8

Swell Dolce 8, Lieblich Gedeckt 8, Viole d'Orchestre 8, Flute Traverso 4, Oboe 8

Pedal Bourdon 16 (Large Scale), Lieblich Gedeckt 16

Swell to Great 16, Swell to Pedal 8, Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Great 8, Swell to Swell, Swell to Great 4, Swell to Swell 16, Swell to Swell 4, Great to Great 16, Great to Great 4

Documents

• Factory contract and shop notes courtesy of the OHS American Organ Archives & Library -Paul R. Marchesano

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #71437†* - Unknown Builder (1958)

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