Lehigh Organ Co.
Opus 30, 1986
Originally M. P. Möller (1958)
First United Church of Christ
611 Washington Street
Reading, PA, US
80 Ranks
Instrument ID: 51088 ● Builder ID: 3685 ● Location ID: 44768
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal6 Divisions81 Stops62 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Computerized/Digital
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
In 2017, the historic church building, completed in 1832, was given to Reading City Church and First UCC’s endowment of almost $800,000 established the First United Church of Christ Fund at Berks County Community Foundation; the Foundation provides for, among other things, organ and piano tuning, building maintenance, or ministry and outreach for the Reading City Church.
Database Manager on April 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Great, Positiv,and Antiphonal are 56 notes. Swell and Choir are 61 notes.
Database Manager on April 3rd, 2013:
This entry describes alterations to an existing organ.
Identified by James R. Stettner, using information from this web site: http://firstchurchrdg.org/organ.html.
-- According to the church website, "The pipework for the instrument was more than 55% new, with the remainder being rebuilt from the organs in First Church, (M.P. Möller of Hagerstown, Maryland, 1920 and 1958), and in the former Second United Church of Christ, (Samuel Bohler Organ Company, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1897; M.P.Möller, 1926; Gundling Organ Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1973). First Church and Second Church merged in 1979."
Related Instrument Entries: M. P. Möller (Opus R-612, 1958)
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