Holy Family Catholic Church
14160 Ferndale Rd
Woodbridge, VA
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2021 - The current position is behind the wall and toward the right (Holy Family Catholic Church Facebook Page/Mark)
1970s- early 80s? - One of the older layouts (Unknown/Mark)
1980-90s - Another old layout, more recent before the wall (Unknown/Mark)
1980s-90s? - Most recent known picture before the wall (Unknown/Mark)
2019 - Console (Mark Peterson/Mark)
2019 - Console Nameplate (Mark Peterson/Mark)
2019 - Looking down to the lower level of chamber. Flutes (Mark Peterson/Mark)
2019 - Upper level chamber (Mark Peterson/Mark Peterson)
2019 - Swell mechanism (Mark Peterson/Mark Peterson)
2019 - Console stops (Mark Peterson/Mark Peterson)
Consoles
(From nameplate) Moller 5604
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 2 manuals
- 29 stops
- 38 registers
- Key action Type: Other
- Stop action Type: Other
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
Blowers
- Main blower - A smaller blower, albeit more efficient than its predecessor was installed in the early 2000s I believe from Laukhuff. It’s is enclosed in an insulated box and is pretty quiet and barely if not audible from the player and congregation positions
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Notes
2022-05-30 - Relocated from the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Baltimore, Maryland, to Holy Family Catholic Church, Woodbridge, Virginia. -Jeff Scofield
2024-03-12 - The organ is in disrepair and is too cost prohibitive for the church to restore. The organ may face a threat of being removed, and replaced with a digital substitute or piano will remain the main instrument at the church. -Mark
2024-03-14 - Condition is unplayable. As far as the church not using it. In a town hall it was mentioned it is unplayable and unfixable. It is still in place hopefully able to be loved and brought back to its full glory someday. -- received online from Mark 2024-03-12 -Paul R. Marchesano
2024-03-22 - Updated through online information from 'Mark' on 03-11-2024: The organ is in disrepair and is too cost prohibitive for the church to restore. The organ may face a threat of being removed, and replaced with a digital substitute or piano will remain the main instrument at the church. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Number of pipes and borrows/unification are not listed or tested for this list. Source: Taken from console
Great (Some Great Primary Action pouches were failing as of 2018-19. Status if repaired or not is unknown. Fifteenth stop has a stuck electrical component resembling a small piston. Also as of 2019 current status unknown, likely still an extant problem.) Open Diapason 8 (Same on Great/Swell), Stopped Flute 8, Viola 8, Dulciana 8, Octave 4 (One of the Diapasons on the organ use wood? Or alternate material on bottom octave. Great Diapason is more round, fat/full, wider scale sounding.), Orch flute 4, Piccolo 2, Fifteenth 2, Quint 1 1/3, Oboe 8
Swell (As of 2019 a 4’ octave coupler was dysfunctional. Current status is unknown.) Bourdon 16, Open Diapason 8, Stopped Diapason 8, Viola 8, Dolce 8, Vox Celeste 8, Orch Flute 4, Principal 4, Flute Twelfth 2 2/3, Piccolo 2, Tierce 1 3/5, Oboe 8, Fife 1, Tremulant
Pedal Bourdon 16, Lieblich Gedeckt 16, Flute 8, Principal 4
Swell to Swell 16, Swell to Pedal 8, Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Swell 16 (Marked Swell Unison Separat’n), Swell to Swell 4, Great to Great 16, Great to Great 4, Swell to Great 16, Swell to Great 8, Swell to Great 4
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