Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1223 (1927)

First Unitarian Church
1 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI

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

Images

Unknown - Nave, Balcony, and Organ Case (Photograph from the OHS Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
39 stops
43 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-09-01 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Destroyed by fire in 1966; replaced in 1968 by Möller 3/53 Op. 10424 -Database Manager

2010-03-29 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Providence, Rhode Island
       First Unitarian Church

       Casavant   Op. 1223   1927   3/44

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

       GREAT (enclosed)                 SWELL
 * 16' Double Open Diapason 68      16' Bourdon           68
 *  8' Open Diapason        68       8' Open Diapason     68
 *  8' Violin Diapason      68       8' Stopped Diapason  68
    8' Clarabella           68       8' Viola di Gamba    68
    8' Gemshorn             68       8' Voix Céleste      56 tc
 *  4' Octave               68       8' Aeoline           68
    4' Harmonic Flute (m)   68       4' Principal         68
2 2/3' Twelfth              68       4' Flauto Traverso   68
    2' Fifteenth            61       2' Piccolo           61
  III  Mixture             204      IV  Cornet           272
    8' Trumpet              68    * 16' Double Trumpet    68
       Super                      *  8' Cornopean         68
                                     8' Oboe              68
       CHOIR                         8' Vox Humana        68
    8' Geigen Principal     68    *  4' Clarion           68
    8' Melodia              68          Tremulant
    8' Dulciana             68
    8' Unda Maris           68          PEDAL
    8' Viole d'Orchestre    68      16' Open Diapason     32
    4' Lieblichflöte        68      16' Bourdon           32
2 2/3' Nazard               68      16' Gedeckt           SW
    2' Flageolet            61       8' Octave            12
    8' Clarinet             68       8' Stopped Diapason  12
       Tremulant                     8' Violoncello       32
       Sub                           4' Flute             12
       Super                      * 16' Trombone          32

       No case or display pipes      *  On heavy wind

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 29, 2010.]