Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1362 (1930)

Hollywood United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
6817 Franklin Ave
Los Angeles: Hollywood, CA

Images

1930-09-22 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
4 manuals
44 stops
39 registers
6 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-12-11 - Identified through on-line information from Stephen Hall. -- In regular use for services (2007). -Database Manager

2010-04-10 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Enlarged to ca. 107 ranks by Williamson and Warne in 1992. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Hollywood, California
       First Methodist Church

       Casavant   Op. 1362   1930   4/41

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

       GREAT                                 SWELL
   16' Double Stopped Diapason 73        16' Gedeckt              73
    8' Open Diapason I         73         8' Open Diapason        73
    8' Open Diapason II        73         8' Stopped Diapason     73
    8' Hohl Flöte              73         8' Viola di Gamba       73
    8' Salicional              73         8' Voix Celeste         73
    4' Octave                  73         8' Aeoline              73
2 2/3' Twelfth                 73         4' Principal            73
    2' Super Octave            61     2 2/3' Nazard               73
    8' Trumpet                 73         2' Flautino             61
       Super                          1 3/5' Tierce               61
                                        III  Mixture             219
       CHOIR                              8' Cornopean            73
    8' Violin Diapason         73         8' Oboe                 73
    8' Melodia                 73            Tremulant
    8' Dulciana                73            Sub
    4' Wald Flöte              73            Super
    2' Flageolet               61
    8' Clarinet                73            ECHO
       Tremulant                          8' Viole Sourdine       61
       Sub                                8' Viola d'Amour        61
       Super                              8' Vox Humana           61
       Harp                    49            Tremulant
                                             Chimes               20
       SOLO
    8' Gross Flute             73            PEDAL
    8' Viole d'Orchestre       73        32' Double Open Diapason --
    4' Orchestral Flute        73        16' Open Diapason        32
    8' French Horn             73        16' Bourdon              32
       Tremulant                         16' Violone              32
       Sub                               16' Gedeckt              SW
       Super                              8' Flute (Open Diapason)12
                                          8' Stopped Diapason     12
                                          8' Violoncello          12
                                         16' Trombone             32

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 10, 2010.]

Websites

Hollywood United Methodist - Pipe Organ - Description (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)