What an impressive organ !!! This "fills my heart with happiness", my late grandfather ( Harold D. Ocker ) was a Vice President of M.P. Moller and started working for the company in 1924. Grandaddy started as an installer and became a draftsman and purchasing agent before WW2. A few of my grandparents family members worked for Moller's in different capacities from 1900 onward and we are related to Mathias Peter Moller.
These are wonderful to watch. I would like to make a suggestion that you always include a section with full organ. I noticed that it is lacking in the number of episodes and I feel that people have already mentioned this so I won't go on and on. Thank you for your great presentations!
My great-aunt used to play this organ for many years, and my great-grandfather was the pastor here for almost 3 decades, so this instrument and this church are very significant in my family’s history; I’ve played on this organ a bit and I love how much oomph it has in the lower register and also how quiet it can play. Love seeing the inside!
I played on this instrument when I was a student-teacher at St.Paul Lutheran school. It was a wonderful instrument to play. The console needed some rehab when I played it back in 2015. I remember finding the old Moller blower in the basement, just hidden away in the unfinished area of the church basement.
Vary nice to see it still in its home ,and playing..our church ..my father's side had a 1953 ..m...it's wasn't maintenance well.it was removed in 1990..by Berghaus organ co..and a new Berghaus installed ..looks like a bird house..I wasn't happy about the m....being removed, it was a memorial gift in memory of my uncle who was killed ..in the Korean war..
Thank you for this. I grew up in Albany, NY, at Trinity U Methodist, a very large church with a 1933 Whitelegg Moller that was spectacular; about 70 ranks. It needed releathering in the 60s to restore it to its former glory. Robert Baker from Boston was the "hired expert" that insisted the "parent company" should restore the organ. Mollers idea in 1976 completely ruined the instrument. It threw out the entire solo which had a Tuba Mirabilis Chorus, flutes and gamba with celeste. The beautiful diapasons were replaced with their stringy gutless principals. I was thrilled to hear so many sounds on this organ that were the same as those I grew up with and began organ study. If I ever won the lottery I would have the squeeky collections of screaming mixtures and thin supporting stops out and replace it with the original organ. I have recordings of me practicing on it and the stoplist. It is obvious that Baker had ties to Moeller. Again...thank you.
Where I come from Möller organs had a very ho hum sound and reputation, also my experience playing some. That is certainly not the case with this instrument. Thanks for correcting that image in my mind.
Good instrument. Were you able to check out the chapel instrument across the street (don't know if it's playable, I know the choir room previously had an instrument in non-usable condition).
One good question, when you coming to South Africa? We have some beautiful organs to talk about, such as the pipe organ in the Dutch reformed church in George western cape
What an impressive organ !!! This "fills my heart with happiness", my late grandfather ( Harold D. Ocker ) was a Vice President of M.P. Moller and started working for the company in 1924. Grandaddy started as an installer and became a draftsman and purchasing agent before WW2. A few of my grandparents family members worked for Moller's in different capacities from 1900 onward and we are related to Mathias Peter Moller.
Mathias P. Moller and Ernest M. Skinner, both SUPERB organs in sight, sound and design!
These are wonderful to watch. I would like to make a suggestion that you always include a section with full organ. I noticed that it is lacking in the number of episodes and I feel that people have already mentioned this so I won't go on and on. Thank you for your great presentations!
My great-aunt used to play this organ for many years, and my great-grandfather was the pastor here for almost 3 decades, so this instrument and this church are very significant in my family’s history; I’ve played on this organ a bit and I love how much oomph it has in the lower register and also how quiet it can play. Love seeing the inside!
I played on this instrument when I was a student-teacher at St.Paul Lutheran school. It was a wonderful instrument to play. The console needed some rehab when I played it back in 2015. I remember finding the old Moller blower in the basement, just hidden away in the unfinished area of the church basement.
Gorgeous original voicing.
Some lovely, colorful sounds from this instrument. I was disappointed, though, that we didn't hear what full organ sounds like.
Gorgeous organ! The Doppel Floete sounds like an old Victorian English clarinet flute!
I played this organ for a service and a hymn festival a few years back. It really is a gem. So much color. I loved playing it.
I literally laughed out loud at the Quimby "Loud Pipes Save Lives" t-shirt! I have GOT to get one of those!
I play a brother of this organ. Möller (3/18, op. 6012, 1931) at my church. It has a very similar sound to this one!
Vary nice to see it still in its home ,and playing..our church ..my father's side had a 1953 ..m...it's wasn't maintenance well.it was removed in 1990..by Berghaus organ co..and a new Berghaus installed ..looks like a bird house..I wasn't happy about the m....being removed, it was a memorial gift in memory of my uncle who was killed ..in the Korean war..
What a gem; thanks!
A nice Richard Whitlegg Moeller. ❤
Thank you for this. I grew up in Albany, NY, at Trinity U Methodist, a very large church with a 1933 Whitelegg Moller that was spectacular; about 70 ranks. It needed releathering in the 60s to restore it to its former glory. Robert Baker from Boston was the "hired expert" that insisted the "parent company" should restore the organ. Mollers idea in 1976 completely ruined the instrument. It threw out the entire solo which had a Tuba Mirabilis Chorus, flutes and gamba with celeste. The beautiful diapasons were replaced with their stringy gutless principals. I was thrilled to hear so many sounds on this organ that were the same as those I grew up with and began organ study. If I ever won the lottery I would have the squeeky collections of screaming mixtures and thin supporting stops out and replace it with the original organ. I have recordings of me practicing on it and the stoplist. It is obvious that Baker had ties to Moeller. Again...thank you.
Indeed, this is a superb organ.. My late grandfather ( Harold D. Ocker ) started working for M. P. Moller in 1924 and retired as a Vice President.
A nice instrument... needing only a 16' Reed stop in the Pedal division.
Where I come from Möller organs had a very ho hum sound and reputation, also my experience playing some. That is certainly not the case with this instrument. Thanks for correcting that image in my mind.
Lovely ! why don't we hear the Great Tuba ?
i wonder that aswell!
Good instrument. Were you able to check out the chapel instrument across the street (don't know if it's playable, I know the choir room previously had an instrument in non-usable condition).
One good question, when you coming to South Africa? We have some beautiful organs to talk about, such as the pipe organ in the Dutch reformed church in George western cape
Not a very large instrument, but has more than enough sound!
unfortenly the organist didnt demonstate the tuba on the great..what a pity
As an old organ tuner, I would block off the 5th rank on the mix and possibly regulate the rest to be less aggressive.
What a disgusting, dirty, old console!