M. P. Möller
Opus 6185, 1934

Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church

Sanctuary

716 Watchung Ave
Plainfield, NJ, US

97 Ranks
Instrument ID: 22052 ● Builder ID: 3912 ● Location ID: 19957
⬆️ These are database IDs that may change. Don't use as academic reference.EXPLORE IMAGESVIEW STOPLIST
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Something not quite correct?Suggest an Edit

IMAGES

Category:
Only show images in a specific category ☝️

Something missing or not quite correct?Add ImageorSuggest an Edit

STOPLISTS

Selected Item:
View additional stoplist entries if they exist ☝️
Open In New Tab

Something missing or not quite correct?Add StoplistorSuggest an Edit

CONSOLES

Selected Item:
View additional console entries if they exist ☝️
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal7 Divisions127 Stops78 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)
Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Control System: Unknown or N/A

Something missing or not quite correct?Add ConsoleorSuggest an Edit

DETAILS

Switch between notes, documents, and blowers ☝️
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on May 15th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Op. 6185 was rebuilt in 1960 as 4/115 Möller Op. R-664; my family attended church here before and after the rebuild - it was a Whitelegg Möller at its best - a truly glorious English sound.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from richard alexander. -- Correction to my previous one: The instrument is not a fully portable one - I must have pushed a wrong piston. The layout of the organ was as described in my earlier email; the best description, I guess, would be "in side chambers," although some was enchambered behind central reredos.
Database Manager on October 29th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from richard alexander. -- 1934-Swell, Choir and some Pedal installed to left of choir stalls; Great, Solo and balance of Pedal behind reredos. Large (19 rank) duplexed Tower division in tower with opening into right side of gallery. Console on screen above choir stalls a la St. John the Divine. 1961-Organ revised by Möller. Small Positiv installed in front of left chamber. Great, Solo and Pedal re-situated in rear gallery in new chambers built on left and right. 1984-new Austin console, Robert Baker, consultant. This was truly one of the great organs in this country. Several people who knew the organ before the 1961 rebuild say it was even better as originally built. Gilbert Adams replaced the organ in 2002; he reused some stops and others went to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Westfield NJ.
Database Manager on September 29th, 2008:
Updated through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- Organ was enlarged in 1984, then completely rebuilt in 2002 by Gilbert Adams. The current organ is a new instrument by Adams reusing pipe some work from the Möller, but revoiced/rescaled.
Database Manager on November 29th, 2005:
Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Replaced Skinner Op. 160 (1908) in new building.</i>

Related Instrument Entries: Gilbert F. Adams (2006) , M. P. Möller (Opus R-664, 1961)

Something missing or not quite correct?Add NoteorAdd WebpageorAdd Cross ReferenceorSuggest an Edit

Pipe Organ Database

A project of the Organ Historical Society
Website by John RoperEditor Login