Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 6943 (1941)

Second Baptist Church: Sanctuary
500 N. Kingshighway
St. Louis, MO

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

Images

2012 - Building exterior (Photograph by Karl Bloomberg, via stlgs, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1990-05-14 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
33 stops
43 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical

Notes

2016-08-19 - Relocated in 1957 to the new sanctuary by Midwest Organ Services, with minor tonal changes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications via the OHS Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Louis, Missouri
Second Baptist Church

Möller   Op. 6943   3/37   1941

All parts of this organ are to be new with the exception that the present 
casing and front pipes, and those other pipes of the present organ marked 
"present" may be used.  All present pipes to be thoroughly cleaned, repaired, 
revoiced and returned, and put in first class condition.  The Front Pipes are 
to be returned to the factory of the Builder and re-bronzed in a color to be 
approved by the Purchaser.  The Builder to furnish a new panel to fill casing 
when present console is removed.  The builder is to furnish and place a 
suitable memorial plate on Organ Console. The inscription to be provided by 
Purchaser.  The Builder to furnish either a grand piano, or Moller Portable 
Pipe Organ for accompaniment of the singers while the Organ is being built and 
installed.

All stops are present pipework except stops marked with an asterisk.  The 
"present" manual pipework had 58 notes and the Pedal 27.

       GREAT                         CHOIR

   16' Double Diapason 73         8' Diapason 73
    8' Open Diapason 73           8' Concert Flute 73 *
    8' Clarabella 73              8' Dulciana 73
    8' Gemshorn 73                8' Unda Maris tc 61
    4' Octave 73                  4' Flute d'Amour 73
    4' Harmonic Flute 73          4' Dulcet 12
2 2/3' Twelfth 61             2 2/3' Dulciana 12th 7
    2' Fifteenth 61               2' Piccolo 61
  III  Mixture 183                2' Dulciana 15th 5
       Sub                        8' Clarinet 73
       Unison off                 8' Orchestral Oboe 73
       Super                         Tremolo
       Chimes 21 *                   Sub
                                     Unison Off
                                     Super
       SWELL 
                        
   16' Lieblich Bourdon 73
    8' Diapason 73                   PEDAL
    8' Stopped Flute 73              
    8' Gamba 73                  16' Open Diapason 32
    8' Gamba Celeste 73          16' 2nd Diapason GT
    4' Violina 73                16' Bourdon 32
    4' Flauto Traverso 73        16' Lieblich Bourdon SW
    2' Flautina 61           10 2/3' Quint -- (1958)
  III  Mixture 183                8' Octave 12 (1958)
    8' Trumpet 73 *               8' Flute 12
    8' Oboe 73                    8' Violincello 32
    8' Vox Humana 61              8' Gedeckt SW
       Tremolo                   16' Trombone 32 (6" wind) 
       Sub                        8' Tromba 12
       Unison Off                 
       Super

       [Received from Jeff Scofield February 8, 2009]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON April 1941 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#24027 - Midwest Organ Service (1957)