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M. P. Möller Opus R-740 (1965)

Lynwood Adventist Academy
Lynwood, CA

Images

2020 - Building Exterior (Photograph by Facebook post, submitted by Lanny Hochhalter/Lanny Hochhalter)

2023-01-14 - Chancel (Photograph by Screen shot from Iglesia Vigilancia Cristiana Facebook video, submitted by Lanny Hochhalter/Lanny Hochhalter)

1965 - Chancel and Console (Möller promotional photo) (Photograph by Eugene E. Poole collection, submitted by Lanny Hochhalter/Lanny Hochhalter)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
39 stops
26 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows 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

2013-01-22 - This is a rebuild of an existing organ. Identified by Jeff Scofield, using information found in Factory specifications. -- The contract was for removing the organ from First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, rebuilding it with no tonal changes and reinstalling it at the Lynwood Academy, Lynwood California. -Database Manager

2013-01-23 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2013-02-04 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The school was forced to relocate in 1993 after the city claimed emminent domain and took the property to make way for a new Lynwood High School. -Database Manager

2023-01-15 - Building purchased by Iglesia Vigilancia Cristiana. It appears in a 2023 Facebook video that the at least the console is intact. -Lanny Hochhalter

Stoplist

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

       Lynwood, California
       Lynwood Adventist Academy

       Möller   Op. 5794    1930         Chambersburg PA
       Möller   Op. R-740   1965   3/28  Lynwood CA
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT (encl w/Choir)           SWELL
    8' 1st Open Diapason 61       16' Bourdon           73
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 73        8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Gross Flute       73        8' Stopped Diapason  73
    8' Melodia           73        8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
    8' Violoncello       73        8' Vox Celeste       61
    8' Dulciana          73        8' Aeoline           73
    4' Octave            73        4' Flute             61
    4' Flute Harmonic    73        4' Violina           --
2 2/3' Twelfth           61    2 2/3' Flute 12th         7
    2' Fifteenth         61        2' Flautino           5
  III  Mixture          183        8' Oboe              73
    8' Tuba              61        8' Vox Humana        61
       Tremolo                        Tremolo
       Sub                            Sub
       Unison Off                     Unison Off
       Super                          Super
       Chimes                         Blank

       PEDAL                          CHOIR
   16' Open Diapason     32        8' Violin Diapason   73   
   16' Bourdon           32        8' Melodia           GT
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW        8' Dulciana          GT
    8' Octave            12        8' Unda Maris        61
    8' Flute             12        4' Flute Harmonic    GT
    8' Violoncello       GT        8' Clarinet          73
   16' Trompette         pf           Tremolo
    8' Trompette         pf           Sub
    4' Trompette         pf           Unison Off
                                      Super
                                      Blank

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield February 2, 2013]

Documents

(1964-11-04) Factory specifications via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#32028†* - M. P. Möller Opus 5794 (1930)