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Casavant Brothers Opus 20-SH (1914)

DePauw University: Meharry Hall
408 South Locust Street
Greencastle, IN

Images

Unknown - Building Interior and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard (ca. 1915); image courtesy of Steven Lawson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
32 stops
29 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Combination action: Adjustable Combination 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 19 couplers on this organ. -Database Manager

2007-07-28 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-01-29 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Damaged by excessive heat and rebuilt in 1935 as Pilcher Op. 1799; Hall Organ Co. announced another rebuild in 1938; subsequent history not known, but the organ is gone; an Aeolian-Skinner is now installed in the balcony. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> January 1915 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Greencastle, Indiana
    De Pauw University, Meharry Hall

    Casavant   Op. 20-SH   1914   3/31
    _____________________________________________

    GREAT                        SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason     16' Bourdon
 8' Open Diapason             8' Open Diapason
 8' Violin Diapason           8' Stopped Diapason
 8' Doppel Flute              8' Viola di Gamba
 8' Dolce                     8' Voix Celeste
 4' Octave                    8' Aeoline
 4' Harmonic Flute            4' Traverse Flute
 2' Super Octave              2' Fifteenth
 8' Trumpet                 III  Mixture
    Chimes      20 bells      8' Cornopean
                              8' Oboe
    PEDAL                     8' Vox Humana
16' Double Open                  Tremulant
16' Bourdon
16' Gedeckt           SW         CHOIR
 8' Flute             12      8' Melodia
 8' Bourdon           12      8' Dulciana
16' Trombone                  4' Wald Flute
                              2' Piccolo
                              8' Clarinet
                                 Tremulant
                                 Harp

[Received online from Jeff Scofield January 26, 2011]

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#16593†* - Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1799 (1935)