[rodgersorgan] Congratulations on your new (Moller) baby!


Dear Paul,
        Congratulations! I've always wanted a pipe organ in my home--but have 
never had the courage to build the high-ceiling addition to house it.
         I've retired from the bench now, but spent over 10 years playing the 
Moller organs around Hagerstown, Maryland. As you may know, the Moller Pipe 
Organ Company factory was in Hagerstown, so many area churches have Moller 
organs. 
         My favorite is probably the one in the Sharpsburg Reformed Church, 
UCC. It's a two manual, 6 rank, built in 1946. Legend has it that it was the 
first post-war pipe organ built by Moller after they stopped making airplane 
parts for the war effort.
         The old church was shelled during the Civil War Battle of Antietam 
and used afterwards as a field hospital---first by the Confederates, then by 
the Yankees (and a few gravely injured Confederates).  
        There are gorgeous stained glass windows in the church designed and 
donated by the Connecticul soldiers who were in the field hospital. Every 
September, during the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival, you'll find the reenactor 
families coming to church in period clothing. Although there are no ushers, 
the Confederates sit on the left while the Union troops occupy the pews on 
the right of the center isle.  The minister usually adds a hymn, done first 
as a reading, then sung: "In Christ there is no East nor West...."
Yours,
Pat Holland
P.S.  If you ever have a Moller tech question, call Rick Morrison of the 
Eastern Pipe Organ Company, Hagerstown, Md. He also has a Moller pipe organ 
in his home.


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