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Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church
3087 Ocean Avenue at Voorhees Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11235
The Sheepshead Bay Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1884, through the generosity of John Y. McKane, a leader in the old Town of Gravesend. Two years later, the adjoining parsonage was built. In those days the area was a resort village of hotels, a racetrack and theaters for the well-to-do. As Brooklyn's Gold Coast (as it was called) faded, Sheepshead Bay become home to fishermen and commuters. By the 1980s demographics changed dramatically due to an influx of Asian and, later, Russian Jews in the neighborhood. In 2011, the frame Victorian Gothic building is home to a Korean congregation and the steeples are slated to be removed due to structural issues. |
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M.P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 7034 (1941)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 23 registers, 19 stops, 4 ranks
The Factory Specifications (July 25, 1941) show that this Möller organ had a two-manual stop-key console and was voiced on 4" wind. All of the pipes were enclosed in a single expression chamber. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
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8 |
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Diapason |
73 |
4 |
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Octave |
— |
8 |
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Lieblich Gedeckt |
73 |
4 |
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Flute |
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8 |
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Viole Dolce |
73 |
4 |
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Fugara |
— |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 |
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Bourdon [TC] |
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4 |
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Flute |
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8 |
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Open Diapason |
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4 |
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Fugara |
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8 |
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Flute |
— |
2 2/3 |
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Nazard |
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8 |
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Viole Dolce |
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8 |
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Oboe |
61 |
4 |
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Octave |
— |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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Bourdon [ext.] |
12 |
8 |
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Flute |
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8 |
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Diapason |
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8 |
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Viole |
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Couplers
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Great to Pedal |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Swell to Great |
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Mechanicals
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Tremulant |
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Voltmeter |
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Crescendo Indicator (lights) |
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Adjustable Combinations
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Pistons No. 1-2-3-4 affecting Full Organ |
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Pedal Movements
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Balanced Expression Pedal |
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Balanced Grand Crescendo Pedal |
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Reuben Midmer & Sons
Brooklyn, N.Y. (<1917)
Mechanical action
1 manual
The first known pipe organ for Sheepshead Bay Methodist was built sometime before 1917 by Reuben Midmer & Sons of Brooklyn. Specifications of this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
"Burned the Mortgage," Brooklyn Eagle (Mar. 31, 1902, p.2).
Trupiano, Larry. Factory Specifications for M.P. Möller organ, Op. 7034 (1941).
Photo:
The Brooklyn Paper (Dec. 1, 2010). Exterior. |
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