Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3583 (1984)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
847 Cleveland Street
Greenville, SC

Images

2004-10-20 - Stained Glass Window (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2004-10-20 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2004-10-20 - Chancel and Pipe Display (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2004-10-20 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Display (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2004-10-20 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
57 stops
74 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-03-27 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-01-29 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Retained 31 ranks from the 1973 Schantz Op. 1206 that was in the old downtown building; Antiphonal and Antiphonal Pedal prepared-for; Trompette Royale added in 1993. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

        Greenville, South Carolina
        First Baptist Church

        Casavant   Op. 3583   1984   4/87

        Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
        St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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        GRAND ORGUE                     RÉCIT
    16' Violon             61       16' Bourdon doux         12 (cdnuit)
     8' Montre             61        8' Flûte à pavillon     61
     8' Flûte harmonique   61        8' Cor de nuit          61
     8' Bourdon            61        8' Viole de gambe       61
     4' Prestant           61        8' Voix céleste      GG 54
     4' Flûte              61        4' Principal            61
     2' Doublette          61        4' Flûte octaviante     61
     V  Cornet         MC 185        2' Octavin              61
 II-IV  Grande fourniture 208       II  Sesquialtera        122
 IV-VI  Fourniture        330       VI  Plein jeu           366
    16' Contre trompette   61 a     16' Basson-hautbois L/2  12
     8' Trompette          61        8' Trompette harmonique 61
     4' Clairon            61        8' Hautbois             61
        Tremblant                    8' Voix humaine         61
        Unison Off                   4' Clairon harmonique   61
        Chimes                          Tremblant
                                        Unison Off
        ANTIPHONAL (prepared)           Super
     8' Montre
     8' Bourdon                         POSITIF EXPRESSIF
     4' Octave                      16' Quintaton            61 c
     4' Flûte à cheminée             8' Principal            61 c
     2' Doublette                    8' Voce umana        tc 49
    IV  Fourniture                   8' Flûte à cheminée     61 c
     8' Trompette-en-chamade         4' Octave               61 c
                                     4' Flûte                61 c
        ANTIPHONAL PEDAL (pf)    2 2/3' Nazard               61
    16' Bourdon           ext        2' Doublette            61 c
                                 1 3/5' Tierce               61
        PEDAL                    1 1/3' Larigot              61
    32' Basse acoustique   --       IV  Fourniture          244 c
    16' Principal          32 b    III  Cymbale             183 c
    16' Soubasse           32 b      8' Trompette            61 c
    16' Violon             GO        8' Cromorne             61 c
    16' Quintaton          PO           Tremblant
    16' Bourdon doux       RE           Unison Off
10 2/3' Quinte             RE        8' Trompette royale     61 (1993)
     8' Octavebasse        12 b
     8' Flûte              12           CHOEUR (existing pipes and chest)
     8' Cor de nuit        RE        8' Bourdon              61            
     4' Octave             32 b      8' Gemshorn             61
     4' Flûte              12        8' Gemshorn Celeste  tc 49
    II  Mixture            64 b      4' Principal            61
    IV  Fourniture        128        4' Flûte à fuseau       61
    32' Contre bombarde    12 L/2    2' Principal italien    61
    16' Bombarde           32        1' Sifflet (rescaled)   61
    16' Contre trompette   GO       IV  Cymbale             244
    16' Basson-hautbois    RE        8' Ranquette            61 d
     8' Trompette          12           Tremblant
     8' Trompette          GO           Unison Off
     4' Clairon            GO           Super

a - existing Pedal Posaune   b - existing pipes and chests
c - existing Great pipes and chest  d - existing Krummhorn

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  January 30, 2011]