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Moline Organ Co. (1879)

Congregational Church
611 First Avenue
Council Bluffs, IA

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


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1879-04-26 - Announcement of the "very fine" installation by Moline at this church (Photograph from an archival source: The Moline Review-Dispatch, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Notes

2021-11-23 - Known from a newspaper article (see images) announcing the very fine $2,500 organ at teh Congregational Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and that the firm was to install a smaller organ in a church in Galva, Illinois [First Congregational Church]. -Paul R. Marchesano


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Pedal check; wind indicator. Pedal movements: Piano, mezzo forte, balanced swell pedal. Source: The Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Iowa) May 1, 1879

Pedal Sub Bass 16, Grand Open Diapason 16

Great Bourdon 16, Violin Diapason 8, Dulciana 8, Harmonic Flute 4, Melodia 8, Principal 4, Twelfth 2 2/3, Clarionette 8 (TC), Fifteenth 2

Swell Viola da Gamba 8, Stop Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Quintadena 8, Fugara 4, Flute Traverso 4, Violini 2, Oboe 8 (TC) news article reports 58 pipes for both Oboe & Bassoon -- obvious error, Bassoon 8 (news article reports 58 pipes for both Oboe & Bassoon -- obvious error), Tremolo

Swell to Great 8, Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Pedal 8


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