Pipe Organ Database

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M. P. Möller (Opus 8900, 1957)

Location:

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
600 Sixth Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50309 US
Organ ID: 37064

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Lutheran Churches
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Database Manager on June 08, 2018.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: EP pitman
  • 48 ranks. 6 divisions. 4 manuals. 39 stops. 55 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): EP pitman chests
  • Position: Pipes exposed (in whole or in part) at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on June 08, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 4
  • Divisions: 6
  • Stops: 39
  • Registers: 55
  • Position: Console in fixed position, right.
  • Manual Compass: 61
  • Pedal Compass: 32
  • Key Action: Electrical connection from key to chest.
  • Stop Action: Electric connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with roll top.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on angled jambs.
  • Combination Action: Remote pneumatic/mechanical capture system.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals, AGO standard placement.
  • Pedalboard Type: Concave radiating pedalboard meeting AGO Standards.
  • Has Crescendo Pedal
  • Has Tutti Reversible Thumb Pistons
  • Has Tutti Reversible Toe Pistons
  • Has Combination Action Thumb Pistons
  • Has Combination Action Toe Pistons
  • Has Coupler Reversible Thumb Pistons
  • Has Coupler Reversible Toe Pistons
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on June 08, 2018.
Database Manager on April 01, 2009:

Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Was installed in a chamber over the left transept arches, with Great, Positiv and Pedal cantilevered in front of chamber; the console was in the right transept; the Processional division was located 'beneath the gallery at the rear of the nave.'

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on November 13, 2008:

Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Stoplist copied from the factory specifications
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Chancel and Pipe Display: Möller Promotional Photo; collection of Jeff Scofield. Taken on 1957-04-01