Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Purchased from the Sesquicentennial Exposition in St. Louis and shipped to Philadelphia. All divisions enclosed. Instrument has suffered from neglect. In 1997 about 80% of the organ is working, but none of the pistons work. 1969 Hillgreen-Lane console. Organ needs re-leathering and new electro-pneumatic-action. -Database Manager
2005-06-23 - Organ renovation begun by Bruce Shultz and Assoc. Plans to replace chest action with electro-mechanical action; planned additions of pipework and electronic voices not carried out as of June 2005. Organ is in working condition. -Database Manager
2021-03-02 - Renovations carried out by Bruce Shultz and Assoc. in the early 2000s incuded a new console [by Robert Turner?] and installing electric magnet actions on the Moller toeboards, replacing the bottom boards with plywood; leaking air from bottom boards attempted to be sealed by application of silicone, without much reduction in air leakage or noise. Plans to move the Great chests out of the chambers and hung on walls, exposed, were not carried out. The organ is reported as nearly unplayable as of 2019 due to numerous dead notes. -Paul R. Marchesano
2021-09-09 - The organ is playable, and used daily. There are dead notes, notably in the Pedal. Only one stop is not playable (Solo flute 8'). -Nathan Knutson
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbook, Philadelphia, PA M. P. Möller, Opus 4973 (1927) GREAT 16' Double Open Diapason 8' Major Open Diapason 8' Second Open Diapason 8' Gross Flute 8' Melodia 8' Gemshorn 8' Dulciana 4' Octave 4' Harmonic Flute 2 2/3' Twelfth 2' Fifteenth III Mixture 8' Trumpet Great to Great 16' Great Unison Off Great to Great 4' SWELL 16' Bourdon 8' Open Diapason 8' Orchestral Flute 8' Gedeckt 8' Viole d'Orchestre 8' Viole Celeste 8' Salicional 4' Flute 16' Contra Fagotto 8' Cornopean 8' Vox Humana 8' Oboe Swell to Swell 16' Swell Unison off Swell to Swell 4' CHOIR 16' Contra Violone 8' Violin Diapason 8' Violon Cello 8' Concert Flute 8' Unda Maris 8' Viole D'Amour 4' Violina 4' Flute D'Amour 2' Piccolo 8' Clarinet Choir to Choir 16' Choir Unison Off Choir to Choir 4' SOLO 8' Stentorphone 8' Philomela 8' Gross Gamba 8' Gross Gamba Celeste 4' Waldflute 16' Tuba Sonora 8' Trumpet 8' French Horn 8' Orchestral Oboe 4' Clarion Solo to Solo 16' Solo Unison Off Solo to Solo 4' PEDAL 32' Resultant 16' Open Diapason 16' Small Open Diapason 16' Violone 16' Bourdon 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 8' Bass Flute 8' Flauto Dolce 16' Trombone 8' Tuba Sonora COUPLERS All manual couplers, 8 & 4, to Pedal Solo to Swell 8' All manual couplers, 16, 8 & 4, to Great Swell 8 & 4 to Choir Solo to Choir 8' Expression Pedals for all divisions Crescendo Pedal Szforzando (Stoplist: Peter F. Lenox, 1997)
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