Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Brothers Opus 6-SH (1913)

Christ Church, Episcopal: Church
318 East Fourth Street
Cincinnati, OH

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

Images

ca. 1913 - View down center aisle of nave showing mirror image facades (Photograph from an archival source: Parish archives; on parish website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
40 stops
36 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2007-03-07 - Identified through information received from Stan Scheer, Casavant Frères. The figure recorded under "Registers" in the list above refers to the total number of speaking stops, including including duplexed and extended stops but excluding couplers, tremulants and controls. "Stops" refers to the number of independent or straight stops excluding duplexed and extended stops as well as couplers and controls. There are 23 couplers on this organ. -Database Manager

2011-01-19 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Built in South Haven, Michigan; replaced by Holtkamp in 1957 and stored for eventual installation at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Cincinnati, which never happened. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> May 1913 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Cincinnati, Ohio
     Christ Church, Episcopal

     Casavant   Op. 6-SH   1913   3/42
     Built in South Haven, Michigan
     _______________________________________________

     GREAT                      SWELL
 16' Double Open Diapason   16' Bourdon
  8' Open Diapason           8' Open Diapason
  8' Violin Diapason         8' Stopped Diapason
  8' Doppel Flute            8' Viol di Gamba
  8' Clarabella              8' Vox Celeste II
  8' Dolce                   8' Aeoline
  4' Octave                  4' Principal
  4' Harmonic Flute          4' Flauto Traverso
  2' Super Octave            2' Flautino
III  Mixture               III  Dolce Cornet
  8' Trumpet                16' Contra Fagotto
     Super                   8' Cornopean
                             8' Oboe
     CHOIR                   8' Vox Humana
  8' Open Diapason              Tremulant
  8' Melodia                    Sub
  8' Dulciana                   Super
  8' Unda maris II
  4' Flute d'Amour              PEDAL
  2' Piccolo                16' Double Open Diapason
  8' Clarinet               16' Bourdon
  8' Cor Anglais            16' Gedacht           12 SW
     Tremulant               8' Flute             12
     Sub                     8' Bourdon           12
     Super                  16' Trombone           
                             8' Tromba            12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield  January 21, 2011]