Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3067 (1970)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
321 W. South Street
Kalamazoo, MI

Images

2021-05-12 - En-Chamade (Photograph by Joe Granger, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2012-04-24 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Ruckpositive Pipe Display (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Gallery, Pipe Displays, Enclosed Divisions, and Trompette en Chamade (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Nave, Gallery, and Pipe Displays (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Trompette en Chamade and Enclosed Divisions (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Console (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

2012-04-24 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Chad Boorsma/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
50 stops
47 registers
5 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

2006-10-06 - Ruckpositiv is on the gallery rail. Designed by Lawrence I. Phelps. -Database Manager

2009-11-27 - Updated through on-line information from John Gouwens. -- Ruckpositif is an open-frame "box" with pipes quite exposed. The company who services it more recently added a re-worked Möller Trompette, mounted "en chamade." -Database Manager

2010-07-06 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-04-30 - Updated through on-line information from Joe Granger -- Our Company, Scott Smith Pipe Organs of Lansing, Michigan, added an en chamade (8' 61 pipes) to the Positiv division in 2008. It is also available on the Great. The pipes were a Moller Trompette Heroique reworked and voiced by Trivo Inc. -Database Manager

2012-04-24 - The Trompette en Chamade was dedicated on April 13, 2008, and was given in honor of Thomas R. Kasdorf's 40th Anniversary as Director of Music. Lauck Pipe Organ Company added 128 levels of memory in 2012. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Kalamazoo, Michigan
       First Presbyterian Church

       Casavant   Op. 3067   1970   3/62

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
       ______________________________________________

       GREAT                       SWELL
   16' Quintaden        61      8' Salicional       61
    8' Prinzipal        61      8' Vox coelestis GG 54
    8' Rohrflöte        61      8' Bordun           61
    4' Oktav            61      4' Spitzprinzipal   61
    4' Spitzflöte       61      4' Nachthorn        61
    2' Oktav            61      2' Hohlflöte        61
   IV  Mixtur          244      V  Mixtur          305
    8' Trompete         61     16' Fagott    L/2    61
    8' Chamade          61 *    8' Trompete         61
       Unison off               4' Klarine          61
       Chimes                      Tremulant
                                   Unison Off
       CHOIR
    8' Gedacktflöte     61         PEDAL
    8' Stillflöte       61     16' Prinzipal        32
    8' Unda Maris    tc 49     16' Subbass          32
    4' Rohrflöte        61     16' Quintaden        GT
2 2/3' Nasat            61      8' Oktav            32
    2' Blockflöte       61      8' Gedacktpommer    32
1 3/5' Terz             61      4' Choralbass       32
    8' Oboe             61      4' Rohrpfeife       32
       Tremulant                2' Nachthorn        32
                               IV  Mixtur          128
       RUCKPOSITIV             16' Posaune          32
    8' Holzgedackt      61      8' Trompete         32
    4' Prinzipal        61      4' Schalmei         32
    4' Koppelflöte      61
    2' Oktav            61
1 1/3' Quintflöte       61
   II  Sesquialtera  tc 98
   IV  Scharf          244
  III  Zimbel          183
    8' Krummhorn        61
    8' Chamade          GT *

    * added by Scott Smith Pipe Organs in 2008

    [Received on line from Jeff Scofield  July 5, 2010]