Better Pipe Organ Database

M. P. Möller Opus 266 (1900)

First Presbyterian Church / First Christian Church
Danville, VA

OHS convention: 2001

Images

8/17/2022 - Organ case, facade and keydesk (Photograph by Jeremy DiMaio/Jeremy DiMaio)

2001-06-22 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2001-06-22 - Façade (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

2001-06-22 - Case detail (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
21 stops
23 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - Heard at 2001 OHS Convention. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Building was originally First Presbyterian. Church and organ sold to First Christian in 1910. Cost $2,500. Made playable by Don Clark of Lewis & Hitchcock and volunteers in 1978. Tubular pneumatic pedal. -Database Manager

2008-08-28 - Updated through information from Stephen Schnurr: Only alteration as of 2001 was Swell, 4' Violina, which became an 8' Celeste. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: 2001 OHS Handbook

Great (61 notes, unenclosed, CC-c4) Open Diapason 8 (61 m), Viol d'Gamba 8 (61 m), Doppel Flöte 8 (61 w), Dulciana 8 (61 m), Gemshorn 4 (61 m, cylindrical), Flute D'Amour 4 (61 w), Octave Quint 2⅔ (61 m), Super Octave 2 (61 m), Clarionet 8 (61 m)

Swell (61 notes, enclosed, CC-c4) Bourdon Bass 16 (12 w), Bourdon Treble [t.c] 16 (49 w), Violin Diapason 8 (61 m), Salicional 8 (61 m), Stop'd Diapason 8 (61 w), Quintadena 8 (61 m), Aeoline 8 (61 m), Violina 4 (61 m, has been transposed one octave and tuned as a celeste), Flauto traverso 4 (61 w), Flautino 2 (61 m), Bassoon 8 (12 m), Oboe [t.c] 8 (49 m)

Pedal (30 notes, unenclosed, CC-f1) Dbl. Open Diapason 16 (30 w), Liebl. Gedeckt 16 (30 w)