M. P. Möller
Opus 5577, 1929

Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens Roman Catholic Church

Church

195 Church Street
Worcester, MA, US

30 Ranks - 2,024 Pipes
Instrument ID: 31867 ● Builder ID: 3912 ● Location ID: 28204
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions28 Stops31 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Stop Keys on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Jim Stettner on April 10th, 2024:
Updated through online information from Michael J. Garceau: Sadly, this gorgeous church was closed, and razed in 2019. A three manual Allen Organ had replaced all the internal pipe work many years ago, All speaker cabinets were placed within the facades. Not much was salvaged.

Stephen St. Denis on February 2nd, 2023:
From “A Parish Grows Around the Common – Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens 1869-1995” Gagnon, Richard L. Copyright 1995 - “In June 1982 Fr. (Theodore R.) Laperle appointed Louis Curran, Jr. the Music Director of Notre Dame Church. … he (Curran) was eager to have a good pipe organ to replace the fifty-three years old Moeller pipe organ which had become unplayable and irreparable. He proposed that the parish buy a second-hand pipe organ in upper New York State. An organ builder was hired to rebuild the organ in the parish hall. But he worked so slowly that after a year of rebuilding the organ was not completed and the task was soon abandoned. The purchase of an Allen organ in 1985 brought to a close a ten-year search to replace the old Moeller pipe organ that had become unusable a few years before. The choice was not a unanimous one since some parishioners had a strong preference for a pipe organ.”

Gavin Klein on April 27th, 2020:
The church building was demolished and all the remaining facade of the Möller went down with the building. At the time of the demolition, an electronic instrument was present which also went down the with building.

Database Manager on January 28th, 2014:
Church closed on July 1, 2008; buildings sold to a developer on October 4, 2010.

Database Manager on July 19th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Tim Remsen. -- Replaced by an electronic in the 1960s.

Database Manager on December 4th, 2007:
Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr.

Related Instrument Entries: R. A. Colby, Inc. (2006)

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