Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3606 (1986)

St. George's Episcopal Church
4715 Harding Pike
Nashville, TN

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

Images

1987-04-16 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-04-16 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Display (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-04-16 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-04-16 - Left Stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-04-16 - Right Stopjamb (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1987-04-16 - Console Center (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
59 stops
82 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)
Has crescendo
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

2009-03-12 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Includes floating Antiphonal division and Antiphonal Pedal -Database Manager

2021-07-16 - This organ will be replaced with a 2022 John-Paul Buzard Organ Builders designated as Opus 48. According to a document from May 2019, the current Casavant (Opus 3606 from 1986) is up for sale. The new instrument will have 4 manuals, 50 stops and 58 ranks, and when the preparations get installed, it will have 65 stops and 73 ranks. -William G.

2024-03-04 - This organ has been uninstalled and a new pipe organ installed in its place. -Justin Little

Stoplist

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

       Nashville, Tennessee
       St. George's Episcopal Church

       Casavant   Op. 3606   1986   3/85

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

       GRAND ORGUE                      RÉCIT
   16' Violon             12        16' Bourdon doux (wood)   12
    8' Montre             61         8' Flûte harmonique      61
    8' Violon             61         8' Cor de nuit           61   
    8' Flûte à cheminée   61         8' Viole de gambe        61
    4' Prestant           61         8' Voix céleste       GG 54
    4' Flûte              61         4' Principal             61
    2' Doublette          61         4' Flûte octaviante      61
  III  Cornet            183     2 2/3' Nazard                61
II-IV  Grande fourniture 208         2' Octavin               61
   IV  Fourniture        244     1 3/5' Tierce                61
  III  Cymbale           183        VI  Plein jeu            366
   16' Douçaine           61        16' Bombarde     L/2      12
    8' Trompette          61         8' Trompette harmonique  61
       Tremblant                     8' Hautbois              61
       Unison Off                    8' Voix humaine          61
    8' Trompette royale   PO         4' Clairon harmonique    61
    8' Trompette-de-fête  61            Tremblant
       Chimes (enclosed)                Super
                                     8' Trompette royale      PO
       POSITIF EXPRESSIF             8' Trompette-de-fête     GO
   16' Bourdon            12
    8' Principal          61            PÉDALE
    8' Voce umana      GG 54        32' Basse acoustique I    -- (1)
    8' Bourdon            61        32' Basse acoustique II   -- (2)
    8' Flûte célestes II 110        16' Montre                32 (1)
    4' Octave             61        16' Soubasse              32
    4' Flûte à fuseau     61        16' Violon                GO
2 2/3' Nazard             61        16' Bourdon               PO (2)
    2' Quarte de nazard   61        16' Bourdon doux          RE
1 3/5' Tierce             61         8' Octavebasse           32
1 1/3' Larigot            61         8' Flûte bouchée         12
   IV  Fourniture        244         8' Violon                GO
   II  Cymbale           122         8' Bourdon doux          RE
    8' Trompette          61         4' Octave                32
    8' Cromorne           61         4' Flûte                 32
    4' Clairon            61         2' Flûte                 12
       Tremblant                    IV  Mixture              128
    8' Trompette royale   61        32' Contre bombarde  L/2  12
    8' Trompette-de-fête  GO        16' Bombarde              32
       Sub                          16' Douçaine              GO
       Unison Off                    8' Trompette             12
       Super                         4' Cromorne              PO
                                     8' Trompette royale      PO
       ANTIPHONAL                    8' Trompette-de-fête     GO
   16' Bourdon            12            Chimes
    8' Montre             61
    8' Bourdon            61            ANTIPHONAL PÉDALE
    8' Unda maris II     110        16' Soubasse (wood)       32
    4' Prestant           61        16' Bourdon               AN
    4' Flûte ouverte      61
    2' Doublette          61
   IV  Fourniture        244
    8' Trompette          pf

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield May 19, 2010.]

Websites

[No title -- Nashville AGO web site, St. George's Nashville] - Photographs, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)