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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 840.5 (1920)

First Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
Woodward Avenue and Edmund Place
Detroit, MI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


1920 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikimedia.commons, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1920-11-01 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

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Notes

2007-07-30 - Identified through information from Douglas W. Craw. Replaced by a new Casavant in 1966, with some pipework retained in the new organ. Twelve pipes relocated to Ken Holden's Opus 1, Lutheran Church of the Epiphany. -Database Manager

2010-06-16 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The organ was a rebuild and enlargement of a 4-manual Farrand & Votey that was donated to the church by Jacob S. Farrand, Jr. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

       Detroit, Michigan
       First Presbyterian Church

       Casavant   Op. 840½   1920   4/69

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

       Each one of these pistons to cancel everything else:
         All Strings with Unison and Super Couplers (with indicator)
         All Reeds with Unison and Super Couplers (with indicator)
         All Foundation with Unison Couplers (with indicator)   

       * new pipework

       GREAT (enclosed)              SWELL
   16' Open Diapason     61      16' Bourdon           73
    8' 1st Open Diapason 61       8' Open Diapason     73
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 61       8' Clarabella        73 *
    8' Doppelflöte       61       8' Stopped Diapason  73
    8' Gamba             61       8' Viola di Gamba    73
    8' Gemshorn          61       8' Voix Céleste   tc 61
    4' Octave            61       8' Aeoline           73
    4' Harmonic Flute    61       8' Unda Maris     tc 61
2 2/3' Twelfth           61 *     4' Violina           73
    2' Fifteenth         61       4' Flauto Traverso   73
   IV  Mixture          244       4' Dulcet            73
    8' Trumpet           61       2' Piccolo           61
    4' Clarion           61       V  Dolce Cornet     365
       Super                     16' Contra Fagotto    73
       Chimes                     8' Cornopean         73
       Celesta                    8' Oboe              73
                                  8' Vox Humana        73 *
       ECHO GREAT                    Tremulant
    8' Open Diapason     65 *        Sub
    8' Rohrflöte         65 *        Super
    8' Dulciana          65 *        Chimes
    4' Flute             65 *        Celesta

       SOLO                          ECHO SWELL
    8' Stentorphone      73       8' Horn Diapason     65 *
    8' Grossflöte        73       8' Salicional        65
    8' Gross Gamba       73       8' Spitzflöte        65 *
    8' Viole d'Orchestre 73 *     8' Vox Angelica II  118 * (stringy)
    8' Viol Céleste   tc 61 *     4' Flauto Traverso   65 *
    8' Tuba              73       8' Vox Humana        65 *
    8' Oboe              73 *        Tremulant
       Tremulant
       Sub                           CHOIR
       Super                     16' Contra Gamba      73 *
       Chimes                     8' Diapason          73
       Celesta                    8' Geigen Principal  73
                                  8' Melodia           73
       PEDAL                      8' Quintadena        73
   32' Resultant         --       8' Dulciana          73
   16' Open Diapason     32       4' Flute d'Amour     73
   16' Bourdon           32       2' Flautino          61
   16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW       8' Clarinet          73
   16' Gamba             CH          Tremulant
    8' Octave            12          Sub
    8' Cello             32          Super
   16' Trombone          32 *        Chimes
   16' Fagotto           SW          Celesta

       ECHO PEDAL
   16' Bourdon           30
   16' Echo Bourdon      12 
      (from 16' Bourdon)

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 17, 2010.]

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