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Ray Morse (1974ca.)

Images

1991-01-26 - Organ case (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1991-01-26 - Keydesk from left side (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1991-01-26 - Bellows pump handle and Bourdon pipes (Photograph by James R. Stettner/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
• 13 stops
• 13 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 Radiating (Details Unknown)
• Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
• Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was M. P. Möller (1904, Opus 515). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From St. Boniface R. C., Williamsport, PA in 1975 by Ray Morse. -Database Manager

2016-03-02 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

First Christian Church, Albany, Oregon
c. 1903 M. P. Möller, Opus 515
(Stoplist - Mr. Cliff Fairley)

GREAT                  SWELL                     PEDAL (30 notes)
8' Open Diapason       8' Stopped Diapason       16' Pedal (sic)
8' Melodia             8' Violin Diapason*       Pedal Check (turns off pedal-keys will not go down)
8' Dulciana            8' Aeoline
8' Doppel Floete*      4' Flauto Transverso      
4' Principal           2' Flautino
2' Super Octave        8' Oboe*   (labial)
                          Tremolo

* = 49 notes

Sw-Gt
Sw-Ped
Gt-Ped
Pedal Check

Toe levers:
Swell to Piano
Swell to Forte
Great to Piano
Great to Forte

Originally blown by a water motor. The control valve is still visible to the right of the 
keyboards. A handle for hand pumping is also still part of the organ.

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #6717†* - James R. McFarland & Co. (1970ca.)
• #6720†* - M. P. Möller Opus 515 (1904)

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