I’m uploading a picture of the Moller Organ Console which I own and rebuilt that was originally installed in this theatre. Moller OPUS 5214 installed 1928. I’m from PA living in South Florida and found this console in 2003 in Gas City Indiana. Started rebuilding it almost as soon as I got home (PA at that time). Humidity destroyed the keyboards as they were all warped and it had an extremely thick layer of stain on the wood. I later learned that seeing natural wood grain was not in vogue back in the 20’s. At any rate, I spend weeks sanding it down and found beautiful tiger oak wood grain underneath all that stain. I completely gutted the console and due to it’s rather large size cut 6" off each side of the console. I don’t know what happened to the original pipes from the organ (7 ranks I think) but I had intended on connecting it to my 18 rank Moller I had installed at home at that time. Shortly after rebuilding the console I moved to Fla. and had no room for my pipe organ any longer. I donated the pipes to a church and connected the 3 manual Moller using the Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ system.
At any rate, wanted to post a few pictures of the console as it is today and document it’s new home for this website.
I’m uploading a picture of the Moller Organ Console which I own and rebuilt that was originally installed in this theatre. Moller OPUS 5214 installed 1928. I’m from PA living in South Florida and found this console in 2003 in Gas City Indiana. Started rebuilding it almost as soon as I got home (PA at that time). Humidity destroyed the keyboards as they were all warped and it had an extremely thick layer of stain on the wood. I later learned that seeing natural wood grain was not in vogue back in the 20’s. At any rate, I spend weeks sanding it down and found beautiful tiger oak wood grain underneath all that stain. I completely gutted the console and due to it’s rather large size cut 6" off each side of the console. I don’t know what happened to the original pipes from the organ (7 ranks I think) but I had intended on connecting it to my 18 rank Moller I had installed at home at that time. Shortly after rebuilding the console I moved to Fla. and had no room for my pipe organ any longer. I donated the pipes to a church and connected the 3 manual Moller using the Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ system. At any rate, wanted to post a few pictures of the console as it is today and document it’s new home for this website.