Perhaps this will be of value to Pipe Organ List as well.
 
                                                Karl E. Moyer
                                                Lancaster PA
 
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Karl E. Moyer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Moeller trackers New and Old
 
 
        Do I recall correctly that Daniel Angerstein was the chief brains
and perhaps also craftsman behind the modern Moeller trackers?
 
        Shenadoah College-Conservatory of Music--perhaps under some other
name now?--has a modern Moeller tracker.  Anyone know the organ?
 
        Can anyone list the modern Moeller trackers for us?
 
        Andrew Carnegie helped many churches to purchase pipe organs as
well as towns to build libraries, and in Pennsylvania many, if not most
of those "Carnegie organs" were Moellers.   My first organ playing took
place on one of 1906 at Campbelltown, Lebanon Co PA, later electrocuted
by the Gundling Organ Co of Lancaster PA.  Another of 1904 remains in
excellent condition at St. Peter's Union Church, Lutheran and Reformed
[now United churchof Christ], Freeburg, SnyderCo PA, well cared for by
Columbia Organ Works. (OHS convention of 2003 will likely visit there.)
Another was moved from (now defunct) St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Annville,
Lebanon Co PA, to Williamsport temporarily and now to (I think) Puget
Sound in state of Washington. (Perhaps someone can correct me if this
location is in error.)  So they are all around.
 
        Can anyone list extant three-manual Moeller trackers for us? I
don't recall either ever seeing or playing one.   I am aware of at least
the following once built:
 
Op. 56  Harrisburg PA   Bethlehem Luth                  date?
Op 130  Spartenburg SC  Converse College
Op 131  Richmond VA     St. Paul's Episcopal
Op 140  Lynchburg VA    St. Paul's Episcopal
Op 141  Lindsborg KS    Bethany College
Op 152  Norfolk VA      Freemason St. Baptist
Op 156  Cincinnati OH   Third German Protestant
Op 209  Arlington NJ    Cons. of Music
Op 219  Denver CO       St. Elizabeth Catholic
Op 210  Lincoln NE      U. of Nebraska
Op 217  LaCrosse WI     Christ Episcopal
Op 256  Hagerstown MD   St. John LUtheran
Op 270  Phialdelphia PA Beacon Presb
Op 285  Newark NJ       Clinton Ave. Reformed
Op 313  Myerstown       Myerstown Reformed
Op 361  Pittsburgh PA   First German Protestant
Op 407  Harrisburg PA   St.Stephen's Episcopal          1902
Op 422  Harrisburg PA   Bethlehem Lutheran (again)
Op 435  CharlotteNC     Presbyterian College
Op 414  Reading PA      St. Thomas Reformed
Op 415  Reading PA      St. Stephen's Reformed
Op 469  Allentown PA    St. Paul Luthera                1903
Op 485  Greenfield OH   Methodst
Op 554  Spartanburg     Converse Coellge (again)        1904 (?)
Op 563  PittsburghPA    Immaculate Heart of Mary
Op 569  Portsmouth VA   St. Paul's Catholic
Op 609  PittsburghPA    First Congregational            1905
Op 623  CincinnatiOH    Bene Israel Temple
Op 646  Lynn MA         Washington Street Baptist
Op 667  Philadelphia PA Zion Lutheran                   1906
Op 686  Annapolis MD    St.Ann's Episcopal
Op 707  Greensburg PA   First Methodist
Op 734  Lynchburg VA    St. Paul's Episcopal (again)    1907
Op 743  Lawrenceville NJ  Lawrenceville School
Op 746  Pittsburgh PA   Calvary Episcopal
Op 815  Norfolk VA      Freemason StreetBaptist (again)
Op 857  Chicago IL      St. Michael's Catholic
Op 880  Brooklyn NY     Teacher's Trainign School
Op 887  Montgomery AL   Court Street Methodist
Op 891  LaGrangeIL      Emmanuel Episcopal
Op 892  Brooklyn NY     Emmanuel Baptist        a four-manual
Op 908  Cleveland OH    Unitarian
Op 936  DetroitMI       St. Paul's Episcopal
Op 938  Columbus OH     Trinity Episcopal
Op 940  BrooklynNY      Erasmus Hall HighSchool
Op 941  Akron OH        St. Paul's Episcopal
Op 1010 Denver CO       St. John's Cathedral            1908
Op 1014 Washington DC   St.Thomas Episcopal
Op 1015 Wyoming OH      private residence
Op 1025 Brooklyn NY     Christ Lutheran                 1909
Op 1029 Brooklyn NY     Belford Presbyterian
Op 1054 New York NY     residence of D. H. Morris
Op 1066 Detroit MI      North Baptist
Op 1071 Cleveland OH    Euclid Ave. Presbyterian        a four-manual
Op 1094 Detroit MI      Westmisnter Presbyterian
Op 1109 Columbus OH     St. John's Evangelical Protestant
Op 1125 Greenville OH   St. Clair Memorial Hall
Op 1156 Detroit MI      North Congregational
Op 1163 Charlestown SC  Citadel Square Baptist          a four-manual
Op 1164 BethlehemPA     Moravian Church
Op 1165 Hagerstown MD   Trinity Lutheran
 
        Apologies for typing errors.
 
        I'm not certain which of these last instrumentswere 1910, nor am I
certain as to which of this list were tubular pneumatic or perhaps even
electro-pneumatic, though I'd guess that quite a number WERE
tubular pneumatic--and perhaps even Moeller's "bar-and-membrane" action,
something I've never understood.
 
        I'd be surprised to hear that ANY of these three or four-manual
Moellers still exist.
 
        Corrections to this list would be welcome, as would be word as to
what happened to any of them.
                                                Cordially,
 
                                                Karl E. Moyer
                                                Lancaster PA
 
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