Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3636 (1987)

Birmingham-Southern College: Hill Music Building, Recital Hall
900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, AL

Images

2006-12-21 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2006-12-21 - Organ Case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1988-01-14 - Organ Façade; full height, diagonal view. (Photograph by Jim Cook/Database Manager)

Date unknown - Stopjamb (Unknown photographer/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Keydesk

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
3 manuals
36 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Gift of Distinguished Alumnus Coleman Cooper. -Database Manager

2004-11-16 - The original plan did not call for a Full Organ piston, and a reversible toe stud for the Clochettes was installed where one normally expects a Full Organ toe stud to be. Two months later, the Clochettes toe stud was moved to the opposite side of the knee board, and a Full Organ toe stud installed. There is still no Full Organ thumb piston on the organ. -Database Manager

2006-12-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

2010-01-26 - Updated through online information from Jim Cook. -Database Manager

2017-05-07 - The first twelve notes of the Grand Orgue Bourdon 16 are on an EP chest. The rest of the organ is on straight slider chests. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from Jim Cook; Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 08, 2010 Source: Taken from the console January 1988

Grand Orgue Bourdon 16, Montre 8, Flûte à cheminée 8, Flûte harmonique 8 (1-12 from Flûte à cheminée), Prestant 4, Doublette 2, Trompette 8, Fourniture 1 1/3' IV, Cornet (g) V

Positif Montre 8, Bourdon 8, Flûte à fuseau 4, Nazard 2 2/3, Prestant 4, Tierce 1 3/5, Quarte de nazard 2, Cymbale 1' IV, Tremblant, Cromorne 8

Pédale Octavebasse 8, Soubasse 32 16, Octave 4, Flûte bouchée 8, Mixture IV, Bombarde 16, Trompette 8

Récit Viole de gambe 8, Cor de nuit 8, Voix céleste (tc) 8, Principal 4, Flûte octaviante 4, Octavin 2, Plein jeu 2' V, Trompette harmonique 8, Basson 16 ( 1 - 12; L/2), Hautbois 8, Tremblant, Clairon 4

Récit to Pédale 8 (Récit / Pédale), Grand Orgue to Pédale 8 (G.O. / Pédale), Positif to Pédale 8 (Positif / Pédale), Récit to Grand Orgue 8 (Récit / G.O.), Positif to Grand Orgue 8 (Pos. / G.O.), Récit to Positif 8 (Récit / Pos.)

Documents

(1980-12-15) Proposed Specification for an Organ for Birmingham-Southern College Initial proposal and specification, later modified. -Database Manager
(1981-06-10) Proposed Stoplist Stoplist with pencil notes added. -Database Manager
(1981-06-10) Proposed Stoplist: BSC Counter-Proposal Annotated Stoplist. -Database Manager