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Larkin Administration Building
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The atrium of the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo featured a substantial Möller concert organ. Opus 4335 was installed in 1925.
The late Julian Rhodes wrote:
"The central atrium was surrounded by five stories of open balconies and was top-lit. Staircase towers stood at each of the four corners. No distinction was made between managers and employees - it was a model of open-plan, non-hierarchical, democratic office planning. The building housed more than 1,800 employees and had over 50,000 visitors annually. There was an employees' lounge with a piano, and the management provided weekly lunchtime concerts. Möller was commissioned to install a 146-stop concert organ, an apt focal point for the interior and a fitting symbol of a united community. It cost $63,000 and stood at one end of the Atrium on the third storey."
GREAT
16 Double Diapason (front)
16 Tibia Clausa (wood)
8 First Diapason (wood & metal)
8 Second Diapason
8 Third Diapason
8 Fourth Diapason
8 Gross Flute (wood)
8 Gross Gedeckt (wood)
8 Fern Flute (wood)
8 Fern Celeste (wood)
8 Violoncello (mild tone)
8 Cello Celeste
8 Gemshorn
8 Gemshorn Celeste
5-1/3 Solo Flute (wood & metal)
4 Octave
4 Flute Harmonic
2-2/3 Twelfth
2 Fifteenth
III Cornet 12.15.17
16 Double Trumpet
8 Tromba
8 Trumpet (ext.)
4 Clarion
Chimes (25 bars)
Harp 8 (TC; 61 bars)
Harp 4 (ext.; 61 notes)
Piano 8
Piano 4
CHORUS GREAT (enclosed)
8 Choral Diapason
8 Violin 2rks
8 Cello 2rks
8 Tibia Plena (wood)
8 Major Tibia Clausa (wood)
5-1/3 Salicional Quint [given as 2 2/3ft. in the source]
4 Suabe Flute
2 Solo Piccolo
8 Harmonic Tuba
8 Harmonic Trumpet
8 English Post Horn
8 Major Vox Humana
Marimba (49 notes)
Marimbaphone (49 notes)
Orchestral Bells (49 notes)
Glockenspiel (49 notes)
GREAT DUPLEX (from Choir)
8 Concert Flute
8 Flute Celeste
8 Dulciana
4 Flute d'Amour
8 French Horn
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Musette
SWELL
16 Contra Viole
16 Bourdon (wood)
8 Diapason Phonon
8 Open Diapason
8 Violin Diapason
8 Hohl Flute (wood)
8 Gedeckt (wood)
8 Flauto Dolce Celeste (wood)[2 ranks?]
8 Viole d'Gamba
8 Viole Celeste
8 Viole d'Orchestre
8 Viole Celeste
8 Salicional
8 Salicional Celeste
5-1/3 Gemshorn
4 Principal
4 Violina
4 Rohr Flute (wood)
2-2/3 Flute Twelfth
2 Flageolet
V Dulciana Mixture
16 Posaune
8 Cornopean
8 Oboe
4 Clarion
8 Vox Humana
Tremolo
Chimes (Great)
CHORUS SWELL (enclosed)
8 Choral Diapason
8 Violin 2rks
8 Cello 2rks
8 Tibia Plena (wood)
8 Major Tibia Clausa (wood)
5-1/3 Salicional Quint
4 Suabe Flute
2 Harmonic Piccolo
8 Harmonic Tuba
8 Harmonic Trumpet
8 English Post Horn
8 Major Vox Humana
Marimba (49 notes)
Marimbaphone (49 notes)
Orchestral Bells (49 notes)
Glockenspiel (49 notes)
SWELL DUPLEX (from Solo)
8 Philomela
8 Gross Gamba
8 Gross Gamba Celeste
8 Major Violin
4 Hohl Pfeife
8 French Trumpet
8 Cor Anglais
CHOIR
16 Quintaton
8 English Diapason
8 Geigen Principal
8 Concert Flute (wood)
8 Flute Celeste (wood)
8 Dulciana
8 Unda Maris
8 Mezzo Violin
4 Flute d'Amour (wood & metal)
2-2/3 Nazard
2 Harmonic Piccolo
1-3/5 Tiercina
1-1/3 Larigot
8 Clarinet
8 French Horn
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Musette
8 Ethereal Dulciana
(5 ranks "as at West Point", each rank drawing independently. 341 pipes.)
Tremolo
Harp 8
Harp 4
SOLO
8 Stentorphone (wood & metal)
8 Philomela (wood)
8 Gross Gamba
8 Gross Gamba Celeste
8 Major Violin (very keen tone)
4 Hohl Pfeife (wood & metal)
8 French Trumpet
8 Cor Anglais
16 Tuba Profunda (ext.)
8 Tuba Mirabilis
4 Tuba Clarion (ext.)
Tremolo
PEDAL
32 Contra Bourdon (wood)
32 Resultant (wood)[?]
16 First Diapason (wood)
16 Second Diapason (wood)
16 Third Diapason (Great)
16 Violone (wood)
16 Contra Viole (Swell)
16 Tibia Clausa (Great)
16 Bourdon (ext.)
16 Lieblich Gedeckt (Swell)
10-2/3 Quint (ext. Bourdon)
8 Octave Bass (ext.)
8 Cello (Great)
8 Bass Flute (ext.)
32 Bombard
16 Trombone
16 Trumpet (Great)
16 Posaune (Swell)
16 Tuba Profunda (Solo)
8 Tromba (Great)
8 Tuba Mirabilis (Solo)
4 Clarion (Solo)
Piano 16
Piano 8
PEDAL CHORUS (enclosed)
16 Open Diapason (ext. manual Tibia Plena)
16 Bourdon (wood)
8 Tibia Plena (manual)
8 Cello (manual)
8 Flute (ext.)
16 Tuba (manual ext.)
8 Tuba (manual)
Expression pedals: Swell, Choir, Solo, Chorus, Register Crescendo.
Piano expression and sustain.
In the Möller stoplist the piano was specified as a 8ft. 11 1/2in. Steinway; in other sources it was noted as a 9ft. Chickering. The Choir five-rank Ethereal Dulciana was presumably modelled after the Choir Unda Maris ranks at West Point, which included very sharp, sharp, flat and very flat celeste ranks.
The Larkin Building was demolished in the 1950s; the organ was sold to the Schlicker Organ Co. and was broken up for parts.
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