Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3249 (1975)

First Baptist Church: sanctuary/auditorium
425 E University Ave
Gainesville, FL

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Unknown - Chancel and Facade (Photograph by Dan Darmanin/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
32 stops
36 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has sequencer
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2006-10-06 - Identified through on-line information from Bruce Cornely. -Database Manager

2012-01-25 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Church moved to a new campus in 2010, organ was relocated and altered by Temple Organ company of St Joseph, Missouri. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives and Bruce Cornely

    Gainesville, Florida
    First Baptist Church

    Casavant   Op. 3249   1974   3/44
    _____________________________________________

    GREAT                      SWELL
16' Quintaden      61       8' Rohrflöte       61
 8' Prinzipal      61       8' Gemshorn        61
 8' Bordun         61       8' Vox Coelestis   54
 4' Oktave         61       4' Spitzprinzipal  61
 4' Spitzflöte     61       4' Nachthorn       61
 2' Flachflöte     61       2' Waldflöte       61
II  Sesquialtera  122      IV  Grossmixtur    244
IV  Mixtur 1 1/3' 244      16' Fagott   L/2    61
 8' Trompete       61       8' Oboe            61
    Chimes       prep          Tremulant
    Harp         prep          Sub
                               Unison Off
    PEDAL                      Super
16' Subbass        32
16' Quintaden      GT          POSITIV
16' Rohrbass    SW 12       8' Gedackt         61
 8' Prinzipal      32       8' Fernflöte       61
 8' Gedacktpommer  32       4' Prinzipal       61
 4' Oktave         32       4' Koppelflöte     61
IV  Mixtur    2'  128       2' Oktave          61
16' Posaune L/2    12   1 1/3' Quintflöte      61
16' Fagott         SW     III  Scharf   2/3'  183
 8' Trompete       32       8' Krummhorn       61
                               Tremulant

Great:   Functionally exposed, right chamber
Swell:   Behind Positiv, left chamber
Positiv: Functionally exposed, left chamber
Pedal:   Behind Great, right chamber

       [Received from Jeff Scofield June 3, 2023]

Websites

Pipe Organs - Photographs, stoplist, description of Casavant Op. 3249 (1975) (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#49159 - Temple Organ Co. (2010)