Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 2730 (1963)

Acadia University
School of Music
Wolfville, NS, CA

Images

2011-02-27 - Organ case from right side (Photograph by Devin Johnstone/Database Manager)

2011-02-27 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Devin Johnstone/Database Manager)

2011-02-27 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Devin Johnstone/Database Manager)

2012-05-07 - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph by Gordon Callon/Database Manager)

2012-05-07 - Organ Case (Photograph by Gordon Callon/Database Manager)

2012-01-01 - Organ Façade (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
20 stops
20 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: No Enclosed Divisions
Combination action: None
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2004-10-30 - Phelps design, construction & installation supervised by Karl Wilhelm. Rear gallery installation. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Wind pressure, Hauptwerk 50mm, Brustwerk 45mm, Pedal 55mm. -Database Manager

2011-03-04 - Updated through on-line information from Devin Johnstone. -Database Manager

2017-05-07 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. The tonal director was Lawrence Phelps. -Database Manager

2012-04-15 - Updated through online information from AB. -- Small correction in that the organ is associated with the Manning Memorial Chapel and not the School of Music, although music students studying organ usually have the privilege of using the instrument. There are also some small corrections to the stoplist. On this organ, Manual I is referred to as the Hauptwerke, not the "Great." You may want to note the Mixtur IV is 1'. Manual II is referred to as the Oberwerke, not the "Swell." You may want to note the Zimbel as II 1/4'. On the pedal, it is spelled Prinzipal on the stop (not Principal). Also, it is a Mixtur IV 1 1/3'. -Database Manager

2012-04-15 - Updated through online information from AB. -- My apologies: although my teacher, the late Clarence Ledbetter, University Organist, referred to the "swell" (which isn't a swell anyway since it is not enclosed...) as the "Oberwerk," it is a Brustwerk. -Database Manager

2012-05-11 - Updated through online information from Gordon J Callon. -Database Manager

2016-09-03 - Updated through online information from John M. Scott. <br>In July 2013 a 10-bell Zimbelstern was added to the organ. This was a gift of the Class of 1963. The Zimbelstern is hidden from view, suspended from the top of the center tower, and is activated by a button on the left stop jamb. Also, while your records indicate the instrument is in an unaltered state, the original specification included a Holzregal. This was replaced with the Krumhorn in the 1980's. I am currently University Organist and was when the Zimbelstern was installed. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console February 27, 2011 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Manning Memorial Chapel, Acadia University

Casavant Freres Ltd., opus 2730, 1963

       HAUPTWERK                   BRUSTWERK
   16' Quintaden   56         8' Gedackt      56
    8' Prinzipal   56         4' Spitz Flote  56
    8' Rohr Flote  56         2' Prinzipal    56
    4' Oktave      56     1 1/3' Quinte       56 
    4' Wald Flote  56        II' Sesquialtera 88
    2' Flach Flote 56        II  Zimbel      112
   IV  Mixtur     224         8' Krumhorn     56
    8' Trompete    56            Tremulant
                                                                                                         
       PEDAL
   16' Sub Bass    32
    8' Principal   32
    4' Choral Bass 32
   IV  Mixtur     128
   16' Fagott      32

Couplers 
    I - II 
    I - Ped
    II - Ped    

[Received from Devin Johnstone 2011-03-04.]