Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3740 (1995)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
512 Seventh Street
Columbus, IN

Images

2007-07-17 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2007-07-17 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2007-07-17 - Nave and Antiphonal Pipe Display (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
37 stops
63 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

2007-07-28 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2011-02-01 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- "The action shall be slider chests with electric pull-down magnets for the Grand Orgue and Récit. The other divisions and some duplexed and/or extended stops shall be located on electro-pneumatic chests. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

     Columbus, Indiana
     First Presbyterian Church

     Casavant   Op. 3740   1995   3/47

     Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
     St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
     _____________________________________________________

     GRAND ORGUE                      RÉCIT
 16' Violonbasse         12 *     16' Bourdon           12 *
  8' Montre              61        8' Bourdon           61
  8' Violon              61        8' Viole de gambe    61
  8' Flûte à cheminée    61        8' Voix céleste   tc 49
  8' Flûte harmonique    49        4' Principal         61
    (1-12 Flûte à chem)            4' Flûte à fuseau    61
  4' Prestant            61    2 2/3' Nazard            61
  4' Flûte conique       61        2' Quarte de nazard  61
  2' Doublette           61    1 3/5' Tierce            61
 II  Sesquialtera     tc 98    1 1/3' Larigot           61
 IV  Fourniture         244       IV  Cymbale          244
 16' Douçaine            RE       16' Douçaine          12
  8' Trompette           61        8' Trompette         61
  8' Douçaine            RE        8' Douçaine          61
     Tremblant                     8' Hautbois          61
     Unison Off                    4' Clairon           61
  8' Trompette-de-fête   AN           Tremblant
                                      Sub
     PÉDALE                           Unison Off
 32' Basse acoustique I  --           Super
 32' Basse acoustique II --        8' Trompette-de-fête AN
 16' Montre (ext of 8')  12
 16' Soubasse            32           ANTIPHONAL (exp)
 16' Violonbasse         GO        8' Montre            61 a
 16' Bourdon             RE        8' Bourdon           61 *
  8' Octavebasse         32        8' Flûte douce       61
  8' Flûte bouchée       12        8' Flûte céleste  tc 49
  8' Violon              GO        4' Octave            61 *
  8' Bourdon             RE        2' Principal         61 *
  4' Octave              32    1 1/3' Quinte            61 *
  4' Bourdon             RE        1' Fifre             61 *
III  Mixture             96           Tremblant
 16' Bombarde            32           Sub
 16' Douçaine            RE           Unison Off
  8' Trompette           GO           Super
  8' Douçaine            RE           Chimes (existing)
  4' Clairon             GO        8' Trompette-de-fête 61 
  4' Douçaine            RE          (hooded from CC)
  8' Trompette-de-fête   AN       
     Chimes              AN           ANTIPHONAL PÉDALE
                                  16' Bourdon           12 *
                                   8' Bourdon           AN
                                      Main Pédale OFF

  *  existing pipework            
  a  existing pipework except for new pipes for the façade

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield  February 9, 2011]

Documents

(1995-09-17) Dedication Booklet, Part I via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield
(1995-09-17) Dedication Booklet, Part II via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield

Websites

Southern Indiana Chapter of the American Guild of Organists - Extensive photographs, stoplist, description (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)