2022-09-28 - Church exterior (Church Facebook via Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2013-10-23 - Identified through online information from Lyndsey Hawn. -- Rebuild and modifications to existing organ. <br>The opening recital on the newly rebuilt pipe organ in the Huntingdon First United Methodist Church, 5th & Mifflin Streets, will take place this coming Sunday afternoon, October 26, 1975 at 4 o'clock, when Prof. Donald S. Johnson will perform a one-hour program which the public is invited to attend. Nearly four decades ago a new pipe organ was installed in First Church by the organ building firm of M.P. Moller, Inc., of Hagerstown, Maryland. This three manual and pedal instrument has served well over the years, but in recent years it had become increasingly evident that fatigue and age were taking their toll of the thousands of leather valves in the individual pipes of the organ. Accordingly, in late 1974 a contract was entered into with the Moller firm (celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 1975) to rebuild the organ. The entire instrument was removed from the church in May and returned to the organ builder's factory where wind- chests were stripped down to bare wood and completely refitted with a polyurethane derivative used in the valves. Because of the return to organ building principles of the classical period, which has swept this country since the end of the Second World War, it was also deemed necessary to tonally update the organ in First Church. Thus eight new ranks replaced certain existing ranks from the old organ, and many of the old expressive ranks were rescaled and revoiced to a more classic mode There are now twenty-nine "STOPS" (ranks of pipes), a set of chimes, a harp-celesta, and twenty couplers. This patient, careful fusion of old and new elements has affected three happy results: a magnificent tone, an extended artistic range allowing variant performance of works from all eras of organ literature, and a total savings of nearly one-third of the cost of a comparable all-new pipe organ. The work was completed in mid-July 1975. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
First United Methodist Church
Möller Op. 6849 1940
Möller Op. R-936 1975 3/17
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GREAT CHOIR
8' Principal 61 * 8' Geigen 85 *
8' Hohlflöte 73 a 8' Hohlflöte GT
8' Dolce 85 b 8' Dolce GT
4' Octave CH 4' Flute GT
4' Flute Harmonic 73 4' Dolce GT
III-IV Mixture 220 * 2 2/3' Twelfth (Dolce) GT
Tremolo 2' Fifteenth (Dolce) GT
Sub 8' Clarinet 73
Unison Off Tremolo
Super Sub
Chimes 20 Unison Off
Super
SWELL Harp 49
16' Bourdon 61 Blank
8' Gedeckt 12
8' Salicional 73 PEDAL
8' Vox Celeste 61 16' Principal 12 GT
4' Prestant 73 * 16' Subbass 32
4' Flute 12 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
2' Piccolo 12 8' Bassflöte 12
1 1/3' Quintflöte -- 8' Gedeckt SW
8' Trompette 73
4' Regal 73 c * new pipes
Tremolo a present 8 Melodia
Sub b present 8 Dulciana
Unison Off c present 8 Vox Humana
Super 13-73, new top octave
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