Greensboro, North Carolina
First Evangelical & Reformed Church
355 West Lee Street
M.P. Möller, Opus 7188, 1945 (per nameplate on the console)
SUMMARY--7 ranks, wholly enclosed
Diapason 8' (Gt.), 61 pipes
Diapason 8' (Sw.), 73 pipes
Bourdon 16' (Ped.), 44 pipes
Lieblich Bourdon 16' (Gt., Sw. Ped.), 92 pipes
Salicional 8' (Gt., Sw.), 73 pipes
Dulciana 8' (Gt.), 85 pipes
Trumpet 8' (Gt., Sw.), 73 pipes
Chimes, 25 tubes
GREAT
Diapason 8
Stopped Flute 8 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Salicional 8
Dulciana 8
Flute 4 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Dulciana 4
Trumpet 8
Chimes
Great 16
Great 4
Swell to Great 16
Swell to Great
Swell to Great 4
SWELL
Lieblich Bourdon 16
Diapason 8
Stopped Flute 8 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Salicional 8
Lieblich Flute 4 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Nazard 2-2/3 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Trumpet 8
Tremolo (entire organ)
Swell 16
Swell 4
PEDAL
Bourdon 16
Lieblich Bourdon 16
Bourdon 8
Stopped Flute 8 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Flute 4 (Lieblich Bourdon)
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Pedal 4
Swell Pedal
Crescendo Pedal--with four successive indicator lights marked P, MP, MF and F
Hold-set combination action, 3 pistons for Great and Pedal, and 3 for Swell and Pedal
Gt. to Ped. reversible
The Swell Diapason and Dulciana were pretty. The "Salicional" was actually an Aeoline ("Aeoline" was stamped on the
pipes) with the toes opened up, producing a honking sound.
In the early or mid-1950s, First Evangelical & Reformed Church either moved or went defunct, and the organ was
removed, stored under bad conditions, and suffered deterioration. In 1958 it was purchased by Mebane Presbyterian
Church in Mebane ("MEBB-un"), a small town about 30 miles away. Mebane Presbyterian had just built a new building.
But this organ was a terrible mismatch, and its deterioration continued. In the early 1970s, a Principal was added,
73 pipes, playing at 4', 2-2/3' and 2' on the Great. The organ served, with decreasing reliability, until 1990, when
it was replaced with Casavant's Op. 3683, q.v. Möller's Op. 7188 drew no buyers, so it was given to an organ
maintenance man from Virginia who agreed to remove it for free.
[Received from Tom Jones 2012-09-01.]