M. P. Möller
Opus 8000, 1950
Central Presbyterian Church
593 Park Avenue & 64th Street
New York City: Manhattan, NY, US
79 Ranks - 4,824 Pipes
Instrument ID: 27122 ● Builder ID: 3912 ● Location ID: 23906
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STOPLISTS
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal7 Divisions85 Stops64 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
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DETAILS
Updated through online information from Eric J. Gastier (November 27, 2024): Organ restored by Schantz Organ Company in 2024 as its project #2349. Antiphonal organ on new Schantz pitman windchests (replaced due to previous water damage); main organ's original Moller chests restored. Missing or previously replaced pipework returned to original Moller specifications and scaling. Surviving Moller console shell and carvings restored and recreated where lost, with all new console interior and mechanism. Console is now movable.
Database Manager on May 4th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield.
Database Manager on January 24th, 2011:
Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable.
Database Manager on May 26th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Console replaced by second-hand Klann console in 2003, playing only small portion of the organ; Klann console replaced in 2007 by third-hand Möller console installed first at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, TX, and then First Presbtyerian Church, Jackson, MS.
Database Manager on May 28th, 2008:
Updated through information from Stephen Schnurr: Dedicated on October 10, 1950, in a recital by church organist, Hugh Giles. According to The American Organist, October 1950, pages 333-334, the organ was a memorial to Reginald L. Sweet. Drawknob console. The console included preparation for one Pedal stop plus an Antiphonal division of 6 voices, 8 ranks, 6 stops, 7 registers on 5" wind (duplexed between Solo and Great) and Antiphonal Pedal of 1 rank, 1 voice, 5 stops, 5 registers.
Database Manager on July 9th, 2007:
Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1027 (1941).
Webpage Links: Central Presbyterian Church - New York City [NYCAGO Organ Project web site]
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