Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1243 (1928)

Sacred Heart Convent
17 Union Park
Boston, MA

Images

2024-12-10 - Builder's nameplate (Bill Czelusniak via Facebook/Paul Marchesano)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
15 stops
17 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
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 toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Identified through information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2010-12-07 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Case of oak 15 feet wide, with front pipes either decorated in gold and colors, or finished in plain gold bronze. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Boston, Massachusetts
    Convent of the Sacred Heart

    Casavant   Op. 1243   1928   2/15

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

    GREAT                     SWELL
 8' Open Diapason   65    16' Gedeckt          65
 8' Melodia         65     8' Open Diapason    65
 8' Dulciana        65     8' Stopped Diapason 65
 4' Principal       65     8' Viola di Gamba   65
 4' Harmonic Flute  65     8' Voix Céleste     65
 8' Closed Horn     65     8' Aeoline          65
    Super                  4' Traverse Flute   65
                           8' Oboe             65
    PEDAL                     Tremulant
16' Bourdon         32        Sub
16' Gedeckt         12        Super
 8' Stopped Flute   12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield December 9,2010]