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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1440 (1931)

The Juilliard School: Borden Auditorium
132 Claremont Avenue
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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


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1932-02-02 - Borden Auditorium (Photo courtesy of the Juilliard School Archives via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)

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Notes

2009-06-19 - Identified through information in e-mail from Steve Lawson. -Database Manager

2009-07-04 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2010-08-18 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The organ was located in the ceiling, speaking through grills into the stage and auditorium; some pipework ended up at Calvary Episcopal Church, New York City, in Aeolian-Skinner Op. 945. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

       New York, New York
       Juilliard School, Borden Auditorium

       Casavant   Op. 1440   1931   4/53

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

       GREAT                            SWELL
   16' Dbl Open Diapason  73        16' Lieblich Gedeckt   73
    8' Open Diapason 1    73         8' Open Diapason      73
    8' Open Diapason 2    73         8' Stopped Flute      73
    8' Clarabella         73         8' Salicional         73
    8' Gemshorn           73         8' Voix Céleste       73
    4' Octave             73         8' Aeoline            73
    4' Harmonic Flute     73         4' Octave             73
2 2/3' Twelfth            73         4' Flute Triangulaire 73
    2' Fifteenth          61         2' Piccolo            61
    8' Trumpet            73     1 3/5' Tierce             61
       Sub                         III  Mixture           219
       Unison Off                   16' Double Trumpet     73
       Super                         8' Cornopean          73
                                     8' Oboe               73
       SOLO                          8' Vox Humana         73
    8' Diapason           73         4' Clarion            73
    8' Gross Flute        73            Tremulant
    8' Gamba              73            Sub
    8' Grambe Céleste     73            Unison Off
    4' Orchestral Flute   73            Super
   16' Posaune            73
    8' Tuba               73            CHOIR
    8' French Horn        73        16' Echo Gamba         73
    4' Octave Tuba        73         8' Violin Diapason    73
       Tremulant                     8' Concert Flute      73
       Sub                           8' Dolce              73
       Unison Off                    8' Unda Maris         73
       Super                         4' Violina            73
                                     4' Flûte Traverse     73
       PEDAL                     2 2/3' Nazard             73
   32' Contra Bourdon     32         2' Flageolet          61
   16' Open Diapason      32     1 3/5' Tierce             61
   16' Open Diapason      GT         8' Clarinet           73
   16' Bourdon            12            Tremulant
   16' Violone            32            Sub
   16' Gedeckt            SW            Unison Off
    8' Octave             32            Super
    8' Flute              12            Celesta            61
    8' Violoncello        32            Harp (Celesta Sub)
    4' Super Octave       12
   32' Contra Trombone    32
   16' Trombone           12
    8' Trumpet            12

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 19, 2010]

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