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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 530 (1913)

Halifax School for the Blind
Morris Street/University Avenue
Halifax, NS, CA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
26 stops
24 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes

Notes

2008-08-24 - Identified through on-line information from Douglas Burris. -- The Halifax School for the Blind was torn down in the late 1980s and the organ put into storage with the intention of installing it into the new school. This never happened. I purchased the organ in 1990 and have since restored a portion of it to playable condition in my private residence. -Database Manager

2011-10-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Halifax, Nova Scotia
   School for the Blind

   Casavant   Op. 530   1913   3/24

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

   GREAT                      SWELL
8' Open Diapason    68    16' Bourdon          68
8' Violin Diapason  68     8' Open Diapason    68
8' Stopped Diapason 68     8' Stopped Diapason 68
4' Principal        68     8' Viola di Gamba   68
2' Fifteenth        61     8' Voix Celeste     49
8' Trumpet          68     8' Aeoline          68
                           4' Harmonic Flute   68
   CHOIR                   2' Piccolo          61
8' Melodia          68     8' Cornopean        68
8' Dulciana         68     8' Oboe             68
4' Waldflöte        68     8' Vox Humana       68
2' Flautino         61        Tremulant
8' Clarinet         68
   Tremulant                  PEDAL
                          16' Open Diapason    30
                          16' Bourdon          30
                          16' Gedeckt          SW
                           8' Stopped Flute    12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 9, 2011]

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