My understanding was that all 61 M&E opus were tubular pneumatic. As Muller and Able were both from Germany, they might have had the advantage selling to German Lutheran churches.
I dismantled the remains of a Muller & Abel organ in NYC back in 1999 from a church building that was to be closed and torn down. Unfortunately, a less-than-competent local builder had gotten to it in the 1960's, and all that was original by that point was some pipework on an assortment of secondhand pitman, ventil, and unit chests. Tonally, there seemed to be much in common with Roosevelt, and the voicing was about what you would expect from the prevailing style of the 1890's overall.
I think, like the organ you list, the one I had contact with was originally tubular pneumatic action, and interestingly, was also in a German Lutheran Church on the Upper East Side.
Opus 58 from Muller & Able is still intact in Broklyn. Do any of you know of it? Have any of you played it? I know that Muller & Able were employees of Roosevelt. http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/ht...GerEvLuth.html
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