2012-12-30 - Altered and relocated existing organ. Identified by Jeff Scofield, using information found in Factory Specifications. -- -Database Manager
2012-12-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2019-12-25 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: This organ was originally built in 1931 by the Möller Organ Company as Opus 5796, and was one of two Möller organs installed in the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue. As built, Opus 5796 had three manuals, 75 registers, and 22 ranks, plus an Artiste Reproducing Roll Player. The location of this organ in the hotel is unknown, but it may have been installed in a smallar ballroom or in the M.P. Möller Company Showroom on the 4th floor. The larger organ, Opus 5795, was installed in the Grand Ballroom and had four manuals, 102 registers and 76 ranks, plus an Artiste Reproducing Rolle Player. In 1952, Möller's Opus 5796 was removed from the hotel and rebuilt for Salem Methodist Church. All parts that were to be releathered or rebuilt were returned to the Möller factory, and the organ was thoroughly cleaned, tonally regulated, repitched and tuned for its new home at Salem Methodist Church. Möller added two stops on the Great (4' Octave and III-rank Mixture) and a new 10 HP blower and blower reservoir were installed. Möller also built a new four-manual console that included many blank drawknobs for future additions; it is believed that Virgil Fox had input on the console design, as evident by the inclusion of a Swell to Great 2' coupler. In later years, additions and changes to the organ were carried out by the Schantz Organ Company. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
New York, New York
Salem Methodist Church
Moller Op. 5796 1931 3/22 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Moller Op. R-442 1952 4/26 Salem Methodist Church
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GREAT (encl w/CH) CHOIR
8' Diapason 61 8' English Diapason 73
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Concert Flute 73
4' Octave 61 8' Viola 73
4' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Viola Celeste 61
III Mixture 183 8' Viole Dolce 73
8' Solo Trumpet 61 8' Vox Angelia 73
Tremolo 4' Flute 12
Sub 8' French Horn 61
Super 8' Clarinet 61
Chimes Tremolo
4 Blank Knobs Sub
Unison Off
SWELL Super
16' Bass Flute 73 Harp
8' Geigen Principal 73 4 Blank Knobs
8' Traverse Flute 73
8' Orchestral Strings II 134 SOLO
8' Violon 73 7 Blank Knobs
8' Salicional 73 Sub
8' Voix Celeste 61 Unison Off
4' Violina 12 Super
8' Oboe 61
8' Vox Humana 61 PEDAL
Tremolo 32' Resultant --
Sub 16' Violone 32
Unison Off 16' Bourdon 12 GT
Super 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8 Blank Knobs 8' Major Flute GT
8' Viola GT
ANTIPHONAL 8' Dolce Flute SW
7 Blank Knobs 8' Tromba GT
14 Blank Knobs
ANTIPHONAL PEDAL
4 Blank Knobs
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