Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3599 (1985)

First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
723 Center Street
Little Rock, AR

Images

2017-07-10 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2017-07-10 - Sanctuary interior, console and chamber grille (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2017-07-10 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

2017-07-10 - Church interior, gallery (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
41 stops
52 registers
4 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
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

2009-10-05 - Identified by Riley Wes Mitchell from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. Altered by Nichols and Simpson -Database Manager

2010-03-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Retained some stops from 1931 Möller Op. 5854 -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Little Rock, Arkansas
       First United Methodist Church

       Casavant   Op. 3599   1985   3/58

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

    *  Pipes marked thus from the existing instrument
      [1931 Möller Op. 5854] may be incorporated into
       the new instrument at the discretion of the builder.

       GRAND ORGUE                    POSITIF EXPRESSIF
   16' Bourdon 61                  8' Principal 61
    8' Montre 61                   8' Nasongedeckt 61 *
    8' Flûte à cheminée 61         8' Gemshorn 61 *
    4' Prestant 61                 8' Gemshorn Celeste 49 tc *
    4' Flûte ouverte 61            4' Octave 61
    2' Doublette 61                4' Flûte à fuseau 61 *
   IV  Fourniture 244              2' Principal italien 61
  III  Cymbale 183             1 1/3' Quinte 61
    8' Trompette 61               II  Sesquialtera 122
       Unison Off                 IV  Cymbale 244
       Chimes (pf)                 8' Clarinette 61 *
                                      Tremblant
       RÉCIT                          Unison off
   16' Bourdon doux 12 (wood)         Super
    8' Flûte ouverte 61            8' Festival Trompette 61
      (1-12 stopped)
    8' Cor de nuit 61 *               PÉDALE
    8' Viole de gambe 61 *        32' Basse acoustique --
    8' Voix céleste 56 GG *       16' Contrebasse 32 *
    4' Octave 61                  16' Soubasse 32 *
    4' Flûte 61 *                 16' Bourdon GO
2 2/3' Nazard 61                  16' Bourdon doux RE
    2' Quarte de nazard 61 *       8' Octavebasse 32
1 3/5' Tierce 61                   8' Bourdon doux RE
    V  Plein jeu 305               4' Octave 32
   16' Basson-hautbois 12 L/2      4' Bourdon doux RE
    8' Trompette harmonique 61     V  Mixture 160
    8' Hautbois 61                16' Bombarde 32 *
    4' Clairon harmonique 61      16' Basson-hautbois RE
       Tremblant                   8' Trompette 12
       Super                       8' Hautbois RE
                                   4' Clairon 12
                                   4' Chalumeau 32 *

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield March 09, 2010.]

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#32132†* - M. P. Möller Opus 5854 (1930ca.)