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Casavant Brothers Opus 38-SH (1916)

Ravenswood Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
4300 North Hermitage Avenue
Chicago, IL

Images


Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis (ca. 1920)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main


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 8 couplers on this organ. -Database Manager

2011-01-26 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Built in South Haven, Michigan. "All of the Great, except the Open Diapason, Violin Diapason and Octave stops, is to be placed in a separate swell box; the swell boxes are to be three inches thick. -Database Manager


Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The Diapason</i> April 1916 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

   Chicago, Illinois
   Ravenswood Presbyterian Church
   
   Casavant   Op. 38-SH   1916   2/18
   __________________________________________________________________

   GREAT                   SWELL                 PEDAL
8' Open Diapason *     16' Bourdon           16' Double Open Diapason
8' Violin Diapason *    8' Open Diapason     16' Bourdon
8' Doppelflöte          8' Stopped Diapason  16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
8' Melodia              8' Viola di Gamba     8' Grossflöte        12
8' Dulciana             8' Vox Celeste        8' Dolce Flute       12
8' Unda Maris           4' Flute d'Amour
4' Octave *             8' Cornopean
4' Harmonic Flute       8' Oboe
   Chimes                  Tremulant          *  unenclosed

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield  January 26, 2011]

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