Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2013-06-04 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by Brett Miller, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- -Database Manager
2013-06-05 - Updated through online information from Brett Miller. -- This instrument was installed in the auditorium of the L.L. Loar Family Memorial Music Building, which was dedicated in 1953; while the building and the auditorium are still in use, the organ is entirely inoperable and portions of the instrument (including the console) have been removed. The organ was located high above the rear of the auditorium stage with two expression chambers (swell and solo) flanking a central section of exposed pipes. <br><br>According to college newspaper accounts, the specification was designed by Robert Shafer, professor of organ at West Virginia Wesleyan, with half of the pipework coming from a Hillgreen, Lane, & Co. organ (likely Op. 490 - 1919) that had been installed in the third floor recital hall of the college's original 1902 music building. <br>The rest of the pipework, along with the console, were provided by the M.P. Möller Company and the whole instrument was installed by L.W. Barnhart of Parkersburg, West Virginia. <br>The dedication recital was given by Dr. Marshall Bidell, organist and music director of the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, PA, on October 14, 1959. -Database Manager
Stoplist taken from 10/06/1959 issue of 'The Pharos' (WV Wesleyan College newspaper) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Buckhannon, West Virginia
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Auditorium - L.L. Loar and Family Memorial Hall of Music
L.W. Barnhart 1959
GREAT SOLO (under expression)
8' Open Diapason 8' Major Flute
8' Gemshorn 8' Clarinet
8' Harmonic Flute 8' English Horn
8' Dulciana 8' Trumpet
4' Principal 4' Fern Flute
2 2/3' Twelfth Tremulant
2' Fifteenth Chimes
III Mixture
Tremulant
SWELL (under expression) PEDAL
16' Bourdon 16' Open Diapason
8' Geigen Diapason 16' Lieblich Gedeckt
8' Rohr Flute 16' Bourdon
8' Salicional 10 2/3' Quintaden
8' Vox Celeste 8' Principal
4' Flute D'Amour 8' Bourdon
2 2/3' Nazard 8' Gemshorn
2' Piccolo 8' Octave Flute
8' Vox Humana 4' Super Octave
Tremulant 4' Nachthorn
COUPLERS
GREAT SOLO
16' Great to Great 16' Solo to Solo
Unison Off Unison Off
4' Great to Great 4' Solo to Solo
16' Swell to Great 8' Great to Solo
8' Swell to Great
4' Swell to Great 8' Swell to Solo
16' Solo to Great
8' Solo to Great
4' Solo to Great
SWELL PEDAL
16' Swell to Swell 8' Great to Pedal
Unison Off 4' Great to Pedal
4' Swell to Swell
8' Swell to Pedal
8' Great to Swell 4' Swell to Pedal
8' Solo to Swell 8' Solo to Pedal
4' Solo to Pedal
PISTONS
5x - General 8' Great to Pedal
5x - Solo Sforzando
5x - Swell General Cancel
5x - Great
TOE STUDS
5x - General 8' Great to Pedal
Sforzando
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