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M. P. Möller (Opus 1176, 1910)

Originally Giles Beach (1867)

Location:

Dyer Phelps AME Zion Church
122 Crescent Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 US
Organ ID: 899

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on September 29, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 8 ranks. 2 divisions. 1 manuals. 9 stops. 11 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 1
  • Divisions: 2
  • Stops: 9
  • Registers: 11
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Manual Compass: 58
  • Pedal Compass: 25
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in vertical rows on flat jambs.
  • Combination Action: No combination action.
  • Swell Control Type: Trigger/hitch-down swell.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Paul R. Marchesano on June 07, 2023:

The congregation owned only one pipe organ. Acquired second-hand from M.P. Moller as Opus n76 (1910), the instrument has one 111.anual with twelve registers. Built originally by Giles Beach in 1867 for the First Presbyterian Church, Green Island, New York, the Moller firm took the instrument in trade when they supplied the Green Island congregation with a new organ, Opus I I44 (1910) of two manuals and nineteen registers. The Dyer Phelps congregation paid Moller $600 for the Beach. According to church lore, it was given to the congregation as a gift for their role in the Underground Railroad; the claim has been impossible to confirm.

The organ remained in Dyer Phelps Church until the building closed in 1978. That year Robert C. Newton of the Andover Organ Company dismantled the instrument during Thanksgiving week, after which it passed through private hands and was eventually purchased by S .L. Huntington & Company of Stonington, Connecticut. It is currently undergoing restoration and is for sale (a description appears below) . The building of the Dyer Phelps Church was ultimately lost to urban renewal, and the congregation has since disbanded. -- 2006 OHS Organ Atlas

We received the most recent update for this note from Paul R. Marchesano on June 07, 2023.
Database Manager on April 11, 2012:

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on April 06, 2012:

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- Pedal Bourdon 16' has only 17 pipes.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Database Manager on October 30, 2004:

From First Presbyterian, Green Island, NY (zip 12183, branch Troy P. O.). Moved here by M. P. Moller as Op. 1176 in 1910. Removed to storage, M. K. Wolf, Newton, MA in 1977.

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.
Source not recorded: Open In New Tab Taken from OHS 2006 Organ Atlas
We received the most recent update for this stoplist from Paul R. Marchesano on September 29, 2022.

Instrument Images:

Organ on raised platform: Photograph from an archival source: 2006 OHS Organ Atlas, S.L. Huntington & Co., submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. c. 1977-78

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