Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2640 (1963)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Richland Stake House
1720 Thayer Drive
Richland, WA

Images

2023-08-23 - Renovated console with new stops, pistons, and display screen with MIDI software (Photograph by William Thayer/William Thayer)

2017-11-09 - Exposed pipe work in sanctuary (Photograph by Andrea Slack/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console (Photograph by Andrea Slack/Database Manager)

2010-04-10 - Console (Photograph by John Spencer/Database Manager)

2024-05-18 - Swell pipework (William Thayer/William Thayer)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
13 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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: Freie Kombinationen
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2006-11-28 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Contract signed January 15, 1960. Cost: $14,000.00. Installed late in 1963. Dedication recital by Alexander Schreiner on Nov. 13, 1963. Front of room has organ in stacked formation. Blower, wind system, mechanical room at bottom. Swell chambered immediately overhead. Great and Pedal in symmetrical display over Swell. -Database Manager

2007-06-20 - Updated through online information from Stanley R. Scheer. -- The Swell is enclosed within a chamber. The Great is freestanding and visible. -Database Manager

2011-10-03 - Updated through online information from John Spencer. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist and notes from Stanley R. Scheer Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Unsupported filetype pdf, view here.

Stoplist copied from the console June, 1997 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Richland, Washington
Richland LDS Stake House - Chapel

CASAVANT FRÈRES, Ltée., Nº 2640, 1963 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
   8     Spitz Principal            61          Swell to Pedal                  [8]
   8     Rohr Flöte                 61          Great to Pedal                  [8]
   4     Principal                  61
   IV    Mixture 1⅓ [19-22-26-29]  220          Swell to Great                  [8]


SWELL (Expressive)                           FINGER PISTONS
   8     Lieblich Gedeckt           61          General                     0,1 - 4
   8     Viole de Gambe             61
   8     Voix Celeste         (tc)  49
   4     Nacht Horn                 61       TOE STUDS
   2-2/3 Nazard                     61          General                       1 - 4
   2     Principal                  61          Great to Pedal                (rev)
   8     Trompette                  61
         Tremulant
                                             PEDAL MOVEMENTS
                                                Swell Expression             (bal.)
PEDAL                                           Crescendo                    (bal.)
   16    Bourdon                    32
   8     Principal                  32
   4     Choral Bass                12


ACTION: E-P        VOICES: 13        STOPS: 14        RANKS: 16        PIPES: 894


NOTES
The organ is installed at the front of the auditorium with the wind system and relays
at the base. The enclosed Swell is over the wind and mechanical area, and the Great and
Pedal are exposed in symmetrical display on top.

The contract was signed on January 15, 1960, and the cost was $14,100.00. The organ was
installed in late 1963, and the dedication recital was performed by Mormon Tabernacle
organist Alexander Schreiner on Wednesday, November 13, 1963.

The Great Mixture tablet is engraved as IV, but the actual Mixture is III-IV.

Sources: CFOL; church files; JRS; extant organ

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-05-27.]