Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1991 after)

Crystal Theater
304 Superior Ave
Crystal Falls, MI

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

Images

2013-09-01 - Crystal Theatre, exterior (Photograph by Bill/Database Manager)

2012-09-09 - Console (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)

2012-09-09 - Console detail - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)

2012-09-09 - Console detail - stop rail, left (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)

2012-09-09 - Console detail - stop rail, center (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)

2012-09-09 - Console detail - stop rail, right (Photograph by Rodney Weed/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Notes

2012-10-18 - A relocated organ. Identified by Rodney J. Weed, based on personal knowledge of the organ. This Möller Theater organ was originally built for a 5000 seat Theater in Brooklyn, New York in 1927. At some time after being removed from its original home someone updated the electrical system to a modern electronic keying system. For a period of years in the 1980's it was the organ for the Pied Piper Pizza on West Mason Street in Green Bay, Wisconsin. While it was located at the Pied Piper Pizza the organist, Perry Petta, made a very nice half hour video demonstrating the organ. This video is still available out on the Internet. After the Pied Piper Pizza parlor closed in the late 1980's the organ went back into storage. It was purchased a few years ago by a group in Crystal Falls, Michigan for the small 500+ seat Crystal Theater that was renovated and reopened in 1991 for a local performing arts theater. On September 9, 2012 I drove up to Crystal Falls, Michigan and heard the organ in concert played by Dave Wichman. It sounds just great. -Database Manager

2012-10-21 - Updated through online information from Rodney J. Weed. -Database Manager

2012-10-22 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- This looks like a 3/16; Loew's Metropolitan in Brooklyn had 3/32 1925 Moller Op. 4112; Op. 5115 was a 3/16 built in 1927 for the Illinois College of Music in Chicago; it was later repossessed by Moller and may have been moved to the Loyola Community Theater in Chicago. -Database Manager

2013-11-07 - Updated through online information from Bill. -Database Manager

2024-03-05 - Updated through online information from Shawn P. Keith: This instrument was broken up for parts ca. 2022. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console photos taken September 9, 2012 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Crystal Falls, Michigan

Crystal Theater (Organ originally installed in Lowes Metropolitan Theater in Brooklyn, New York on Fulton Street)

M. P. Moller  Opus 5115 built in 1927  Wiring updated by unknown builder sometime befpre 1980

Stops are listed as they go left to right top row first  then bottom row and finally Pedal &
 Solo 2nd touch very bottom small green tabs

TREMS

Main
Solo Reeds
Solo Strings
Tibia Clausa


ACCOMPANIMENT

8'   English Horn
8'   Tuba
8'   Trumpet
8'   French Trumpet
8'   Diaphonic Diapason
8'   Tibia Plena
8'   Solo String
8'   Gamba
8'   Oboe Horn
8'   Kinura
8'   Clarinet
8'   Violin
8'   Viola
8'   Flute
8'   Vox Humana
4'   Piccolo
4'   Vox Humana

8'   Piano
4'   Piano
Xylophone
Marimba
Harp Chrysoglott

4'   Acc Octave
8'   Great to Acc
8'   Solo to Acc


SOLO

16'  Tibia Clausa
8'   English Horn
8'   Tuba
8'   Trumpet
8'   French Trumpet
8'   Diaphonic Diapason
8'   Tibia Clausa
8'   Tibia Plena
8'   String
8'   Oboe Horn
8'   Kinura
8'   Clarinet
8'   Vox Humana
4'   Piccolo
4'   Violin
4'   Vox Humana
2 2/3'  Tibia Twelfth
2 2/3'  Twelfth
2'   Tibia Piccolo

16'  Solo Sub Octave
4'   Solo Octave

8'   Piano
Xylophone
Harp Chrysoglott
Marimba
Bells
Chimes
Glockenspiel
Orch Bells


PEDAL

8'   Solo to Pedal
8'   Great to Pedal
8'   Acc to Pedal

8'   Piano
16'  Piano

8'   Flute
8'   Violin
8'   Solo String
8'   Tibia Plena
8'   Tibia Clausa
8'   Diaphonic Diapason
8'   Tuba
8'   French Trumpet
8'   English Horn
16'  Bourdon
16'  Violon
16'  Contra Fagotto
16'  Tibia Plena
16'  Tibia Clausa
16'  Tuba



GREAT

16'   Tibia Clausa
16'   Violin
16'   Vox Humana
8'    English Horn
8'    Tuba
8'    French Trumpet
8'    Diaphonic Diapason
8'    Tibia Clausa
8'    Tibia Plena
8'    Solo String
8'    Gamba
8'    Oboe Horn
8'    Kinura
8'    Clarinet
8'    Viola
8'    Concert Flute
8'    Quintadena
      Vox Major
8'    Vox Humana
4'    Octave
4'    Piccolo
4'    Viola
4'    Vox Humana
2'    Tibia Piccolo
2 2/3'  Tibia Twelfth
2'    Fifteenth
1'    Tibia Fife

16'  Great Sub Octave
4'    Great Octave

16'   Piano
8'    Piano
4'    Piano
Xylophone
Marimba
Harp Chrysoglott
Bells
Chimes
Glockenspiel
Orch Bells


PEDAL  2nd Touch

Bass Drum
Kettle Drum
Snare Drum
Tom Tom
Sleigh Bells
Cymbal
Crash Cymbal
Bell
Wood  Block

ACCOMPANIMENT 2nd Touch

Wood Block
Snare Drum
Tom Tom
Castinets
Tambourine
Bell
Cymbal 
(unreadable)

Solo 2nd Touch (small black tab)

 [Received from Rodney J. Weed 2012-10-20.]