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Casavant Brothers Opus 11-SH (1913)

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

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• 4 manuals
• 49 stops
• 56 registers
• 5 divisions
• Key action Type: Electrical
• Stop action Type: Electrical
• 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 combination toe pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons
• Has tutti 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 25 couplers on this organ. -Database Manager

2007-03-08 - Destroyed by Fire in September 1916; replaced in rebuilt sanctuary by a 4/68 Skinner.; William Zeuch was organist at the time of the fire. -Database Manager

2011-01-26 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

        Oak Park, Illinois
        First Congregational Church

        Casavant   Op. 11-SH   1913   4/53
        ___________________________________________

        GREAT                      SWELL
    16' Double Open Diapason   16' Bourdon
     8' Open Diapason           8' Open Diapason
     8' Violin Diapason         8' Stopped Diapason
     8' Doppelflöte             8' Viola di Gamba
     8' Clarabella              8' Vox Celeste
     8' Gemshorn                8' Quintadena
     4' Octave                  8' Aeoline
     4' Harmonic Flute          4' Principal
 2 2/3' Twelfth                 4' Flute Traverse
     2' Fifteenth               2' Flautino
   III  Mixture (soft)        III  Dolce Cornet
     8' Trumpet                16' Contra Fagotto
                                8' Cornopean
        ECHO                    8' Oboe
     8' Stopped Diapason        8' Vox Humana
     8' Viola di Gamba             Tremulant
     8' Echo Dulciana
     4' Wald Flute                 CHOIR
     8' Vox Humana              8' Open Diapason
        Tremulant               8' Melodia
        Tubular Chimes 20       8' Dulciana
                                8' Unda Maris
        PEDAL                   4' Violina
    32' Acoustic Bass --        4' Flute d'Amour
    16' Violone       32        2' Piccolo
    16' Bourdon       32        8' Clarinet
    16' Gedeckt       SW        8' Cor Anglais
10 2/3' Quint         32           Tremulant
     8' Cello         32
     8' Bourdon       12           SOLO
     8' Flute         SW        8' Stentorphone
    16' Trombone      32        4' Concert Flute
     8' Tromba        12        8' Tuba Mirabilis

[Received online from Jeff Scofield January 26, 2011]

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