Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2514 (1959)

St. Matthew's Anglican Cathedral: Cathedral
403 Thirteenth Street
Brandon, MB, CA

Images

Date unknown - Console (Photograph from an archival source: Cathedral website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Original facade (Photograph from an archival source: Cathedral website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2013-11-08 - Console (Photograph by Chris Macdonald/Database Manager)

2013-11-08 - Pipe Display (Photograph by Chris Macdonald/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
33 stops
40 registers
4 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)
Has crescendo
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

2007-05-28 - Identified through on-line information from Stanley R. Scheer. -- The Great Organ is visible in the chancel arch with the remainder of the organ located in the gallery. -Database Manager

2014-12-20 - In 2014, Casavant refurbished the console and did minor pipe repairs, as well as redoing the Great and Pedal Mixtures. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded

Brandon, Manitoba
St. Matthew's Anglical Cathedral

Casavant, Op. 2514, 1959/2014   3/39
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Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
              St. Hyacinthe, Québec


       GREAT                                   CHOIR (Expressive)
16'    Quintaton            61          8'     Cor de Nuit          61
8'     Principal            61 a        8'     Erzähler             61
8'     Spitzflöte           61          8'     Unda Maris           61
4'     Octave               61          4'     Dolce Principal      61
4'     Chimney Flute        61          4'     Koppelflöte          61
2 2/3' Octave Quint         61          2 2/3' Nazard               61
2'     Super Octave         61          2'     Blockflöte           61
IV     Fourniture          244 b        1 3/5' Tierce               61
                                        8'     Cromorne             61
Unison Off                                     Tremulant
Super
                                        Sub
                                        Unison Off
       SWELL (Expressive)               Super
8'     Rohrflöte            61
8'     Spitz Viola          61    
8'     Voix Celeste   (GG)  54                 PEDAL
4'     Geigen Octave        61          16'    Contrebasse          32
4'     Harmonic Flute       61          16'    Gemshorn             32
2'     Fifteenth            61          16'    Quintaton      (Gt)  --
III    Cymbel              183          8'     Octave               12
16'    Bassoon              12          8'     Gedeckt              32
8'     Trompette            61          8'     Gemshorn             12
8'     Hautbois             61 c        4'     Super Octave         32 d
4'     Clarion              61          4'     Flute                12
       Tremulant                        II     Mixture              64 e
                                        16'    Posaune              32
Sub                                     16'    Bassoon        (Sw)  --
Unison Off                              8'     Hautbois       (Sw)  --
Super


Work done as part of the 2014 renovation:

    a  Pipes 1-8 repaired in Builder's workshop
    b  Revoiced in the Builder's workshop to achieve its
       role to suitably crown the principal chorus
    c  New pipe resonator for G#
    d  New, drawn from existing Mixture III
    e  Two separate actions

[Received from Jeff Scofield December 20, 2014]

Documents

Organ Specifications Stoplist and notes from Stanley Scheer -Jim Stettner