Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Opus 2168 (1953)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
616 W.10th Ave.
Anchorage, AK

Images

1953-05-01 - Console and Chancel (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1953-05-01 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1953-05-01 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
2 manuals
15 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Stop Keys 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 combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2006-10-31 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Originally built for the previous edifice on 5th Ave. & Franklin. Dedicated June 1953. Cost $16,800.00. Moved to the present church in 1967. Original console was drawknob. Present console is clearly Casavant, and appears to be original console with new stopjambs. The Great 4' Lieblich Flöte is cylindrical metal pipes with bored wooden stoppers inserted. -Database Manager

2010-03-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2012-11-30 - Updated through online information from John Zimmerman. -- The organ was relocated in 1967 to the new (current) building - only the configuration altered when it was moved from the former church building to the current church building a few blocks away. It is in excellent condition and recently (circa 2010) had extensive restorative work done to the wind chests. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Anchorage, Alaska
   First Presbyterian Church

   Casavant   Op. 2168   1953   2/15

   Courtesy Casavant Frères Archives
   Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

   GREAT                   SWELL                      PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 68     8' Geigen Principal 68    16' Bourdon 32
8' Melodia 68           8' Stopped Diapason 68    16' Gedeckt 12 SW
8' Dulciana 68          8' Viola da Gamba 68       8' Cello 32
4' Octave 68            8' Voix Celeste 61 GG      8' Stopped Flute 12
4' Lieblich Flute 68    4' Octave Geigen 68
2' Fifteenth 61         4' Flauto Traverso 68
   Super                8' Closed Horn 68
                           Tremulant
                           Sub
                           Unison Off
                           Super

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 08, 2010.]

Websites

firstpres [The Casavant Freres Organ at First Presbyterian Church, Anchorage, Alaska] - Photographs, description, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)