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Walker Memorial Baptist Church
120 East 169th Street
The Bronx, N.Y. 10452
http://www.walkermemorialbaptistchurch.com/
Walker Memorial Baptist Church was organized in 1891 as Mount Gilead Baptist Church, the first black Baptist church in Harlem, by the Rev. Benjamin H. Walker. The church's first services were held over a stable at 104 East 126th Street, and as the congregation grew in numbers they moved to a series of progressively larger renovated homes in Harlem. Rev. Walker served as pastor for thirteen years, until 1904, and in September 1916 the church was renamed Walker Memorial in his honor. From 1945 to 1975, the congregation met at 37-43 West 116th Street, occupying the former Cooper Junior High School that had been built in 1903 for the Columbia Typewriter Company. In 1975, the congregation moved to their present home in the Bronx when they purchased the former Sephardic Jewish Center on East 169th Street near the Grand Concourse. |
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M.P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 5953 (1931)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 15 registers, 9 stops, 9 ranks
This organ was built in 1931 for the church building on East 132nd Street in Manhattan. For that installation, Möller provided a two-manual stop-key console and display pipes of gold bronze. The organ was enclosed in one swell box and voiced on 5" wind pressure. In 1945, Möller moved the organ (as job R-214) to the church's new location at 41 West 116th Street. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
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Open Diapason |
61 |
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Flute d'Amour [St. Diap.] |
SW |
8 |
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Melodia |
73 |
8 |
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Oboe |
SW |
8 |
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Dulciana |
73 |
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Salicional |
73 |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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Open Diapason |
73 |
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Dulciana |
GT |
8 |
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Stopped Diapason |
73 |
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Flute Traverso [Melodia] |
GT |
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Salicional |
GT |
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Oboe |
73 |
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Vox Celeste (TC) |
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Tremulant |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes, enclosed
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Bourdon |
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Lieblich Gedeckt [lo-press.] |
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Couplers
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Great to Pedal |
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Great 16', 4' |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Swell 16', 4', Unison Separation |
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Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' |
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Adjustable Combinations
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Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Great and Pedal stops |
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Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Swell and Pedal stops |
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Pedal Movements
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Balanced Swell Pedal |
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Great to Pedal Reversible |
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Balanced Crescendo Pedal with Indicator |
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Sources:
Correspondence (Apr. 2, 1945) from Walker Memorial Baptist Church to M.P. Möller. Courtesy Larry Trupiano.
Trupiano, Larry. Factory Specification of M.P.
Möller Organ, Op. 5953 (1931).
Walker Memorial Baptist Church website: http://www.walkermemorialbaptistchurch.com/ |
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