M. P. Möller
Opus 9238, 1959
First Presbyterian Church
Sanctuary
5 West Montgomery Ave.
Ardmore, PA, US
33 Ranks
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal4 Divisions26 Stops42 RegistersElectrical Key ActionTubular Pneumatic (Unknown) Stop ActionCombination 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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Along with the rest of the sanctuary expansion, this entirely-new instrument was a gift of J. Howard Pew in memory of his wife.
Over the succeeding years, the long nave of the enlarged sanctuary presented an acoustical challenge that required changes and augmentations to the Moehler organ. In the 1970s, an antiphonal organ was added to the back of the sanctuary.
- - from a church history of the organs.
Database Manager on March 30th, 2011:
Updated through online information from Richard Alexander. -- 8-4-IV antiphonal Möller added '70's. Some tonal changes and console reniovation Petty-Madden '90's. Original Möller an Ernest White job on low pressure, enchambered, in this long, dead Gothic church.
Database Manager on April 20th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Antiphonal added in 1970's
Database Manager on December 5th, 2008:
Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr.
Related Instrument Entries: Luley Organ Company (2002)
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