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Casavant Frères Ltée. (1991)

St. Philip Catholic Church: Church
112 Capital Ave. NE
Battle Creek, MI

Images

2010-08-17 - Church Interior and Altar (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Nave, Balcony, and Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Left Pipe Chamber (Pedal Pipes) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Right Pipe Chamber (Choir Box) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Builder's Nameplate (rebuild) (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2010-08-17 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
29 stops
39 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2006-05-10 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Casavant additions and pedal reed from #604 added to E. M. Skinner Opus 787 (1930); nomenclature of stops changed; combination action replaced with solidstate. -Database Manager

2010-08-20 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma -- This rebuild was completed by Michael Perrault of Casavant. Work included: new keyboards and drawknobs (to replace the ones previously installed from a supply house), new thumb pistons, new toe studs, new balanced swell and crescendo pedals, releathering of the windchests, changing the console to solid state, and the installation of an eight-level memory system. Some stops/ranks were added at this time, and the Great First Diapason and Swell Diapason were restored to their original conditions. The Great's Grave Mixture II was placed in storage behind the Swell division. -Database Manager

2010-10-23 - Updated through online information from Chad Boorsma -- Ken Holden has completed a number of projects since the Casavant rebuild. They include: replacing the Rohrflute's wooden chimneys with metal caps (1999), removing and reinstalling much of the organ when the chamber walls needed to be replastered due to water damage (2001), adding the Tromba rank (2001), moving the Harp to the Great chamber (2001), installing a replacement Skinner nameplate (2009), and changing the name of the Pedal's 16' reed from the misnamed Bombarde to the correct name of Trombone (2010). -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console (August 17, 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Battle Creek, Michigan
ST PHILIP CATHOLIC CHURCH

Built by Skinner Organ Company (1930/Opus 787)
Rebuilt by Casavant (1991)
_____________________________________________________________________________________

GREAT:                             CHOIR:
   16' Bourdon 17                     16' Contra Gamba 73
    8' First Diapason 61               8' Concert Flute 73
    8' Second Diapason 61              8' Dulciana 73
    8' Bourdon [PD] *                  8' Unda Maris [TC] 61
    8' Harmonic Flute 61               4' Flute d'Amour 73
    4' Octave 61                   2 2/3' Nazard 61 *
    2' Fifteenth 61 •                  8' Tromba 61 +
   IV  Mixture 244 *                   8' Corno di Bassetto 73  
    8' Tromba [CH] +                      Celesta [rocking tablet]
       Harp [Rocking Tablet]              Tremolo

SWELL:    
    8' Diapason 73                 PEDAL:
    8' Rohrflute 73                   32' Resultant *
    8' Echo Salicional 73             16' Diapason 32
    8' Echo Salicional Celeste 73     16' Bourdon 32
    4' Octave 61 *                    16' Contra Gamba [CH]
    4' Flute Triangulaire 73           8' Octave 12
  III  Mixture 183                     8’ Diapason [GT] *
   16' Waldhorn 73                     8' Bourdon 12 *
    8' Trumpet 73                     16' Trombone 32 =
    8' Flugel Horn 73                 16' Waldhorn [SW] *
    8' Vox Humana 73                   8' Tromba 12 =
    4' Clarion 73
       Tremolo

    * additional stops added by Casavant
    = from Opus 604 at St. Paul's Episcopal in Jackson, MI
    + found stored in the attic at Jefferson Ave. Presbyterian Church (Detroit)
      and installed by Ken Holden in 2001
    • source unknown

[Received online from Chad Boorsma • April 6, 2011]

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#23546 - Skinner Organ Co. Opus 787 (1929)