Better Pipe Organ Database

R. S. Williams & Sons (1896)

St. John the Divine Anglican Church
37 Ottawa St. N
Cayuga, ON, CA

Images

2012-10-13 - Pipe Facade and Keydesk (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Keydesk and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Detail on Pipe Facade (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Keydesk (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Left Drawknobs (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Right Drawknobs (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Pedalboard, Swell Pedal, and Foot Levers (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Chancel and Organ Case (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2012-10-13 - Side of Organ Bench (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
10 stops
10 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 27 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2006-08-08 - Rededication program states that the organ has "145 keys and 575 pieps". Numbers add to calculated compasses given. -Database Manager

2006-08-08 - Display pipes are speaking pipes. -Database Manager

2012-10-17 - Updated through online information from Bruce Cross. -- site visit Oct 13, 2012; Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle: The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments, by Ladislav Cselenyi-Granch. Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc, Toronto, 1996. The Viola 8' in the Swell is presently tuned as a celeste. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Date not recorded

Cayuga, Ontario
St. John the Divine Anglican Church

R. S. Williams & Sons, 1897


     GREAT (brown knobs):
8    Open Diapason
8 Ft Melodia
8    Dulciana
4 Ft Principal
2    Fifteenth


     SWELL (Expressive - black knobs):
8    Stopᵈ Diapason
8    Gamba
8    Viola
4    Harmonic Flute
     Tremolo


     PEDAL:
16   Bourdon


     COUPLERS (white knobs)
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great
Swell to Great Octave


     FOOT TRUNDLES
Piano -

Forte -


     PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)


     ACCESSORIES
Bellows Signal


[stoplist: Gordon Angus 1997]
[updated by James R. Stettner 2022-11-08]