Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 8 (1885)

Cathédrale St-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur
1900 rue Girouard Ouest
St-Hyacinthe, QC, CA

Images

2013 - Organ in rear gallery (Gérard Gendron/Anick Chandonnet)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
38 stops
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons
Has hitchdown couplers

Notes

2011-01-18 - Updated through on-line information from The Zach. -Database Manager

2011-10-14 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

St. Hyacinthe, Québec
La Cathédrale-Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur

Casavant Frères Ltée.   Op. 8   1885   3/42

       GRAND ORGUE                      RÉCIT
   16' Montre 56                    16' Quintaton 56
    8' Montre 56                     8' Principal 56
    8' Principal 56                  8' Bourdon 56
    8' Bourdon 56                    8' Gambe 56
    8' Flûte Harmonique 56           8' Voix Céleste (TC) 44
    4' Prestant 56                   4' Flûte Octaviante 56
    4' Flûte 56                      2' Octavin 56
    2' Doublette 56                 III Cornet 168
    II Mixture Grave 112             8' Trompette 56       
   III Mixture Aigue 168             8' Hautbois-Basson 56
    8' Trompette 56                  8' Voix Humaine 56
    4' Clarion 56                       Trémolo

       PÉDALE                           POSITIF
   16' Flûte 30                     16' Bourdon 56
   16' Bourdon 30                    8' Principal 56
   16' Violon 30                     8' Melodia 56
    8' Flûte 30                      8' Bourdon 56
    8' Violoncelle 30                8' Salicional 56
   16' Bombarde 30                   4' Flûte Harmonique 56
    8' Trompette (ext.) 12       2 2/3' Quinte Douce 56
                                     8' Coromone 56
    
[Received from The Zach 2011-01-18.]