Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Opus 3886 (2010)

First Presbyterian Church
Charleston, WV

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
23 stops
36 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: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-10-06 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-02-28 - Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- The church is retaining their Fisk organ in the rear gallery. The new organ will allow the choirs to sing from the chancel. It will be heard in services for the first time on Easter Sunday - April 4, 2010. (Information compiled from church and Casavant websites (accessed Feb 27, 2010) and an on-line article in "The Charleston Gazette" dated Feb 23, 2010) -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

     Charleston, West Virginia
     First Presbyterian Church

     Casavant   Op. 3886   2010   3/28
     _______________________________________________

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

     GREAT                          CHOIR
 16' Bourdon          12         8' Cor de nuit   61
  8' Open Diapason    61         8' Flute Douce   61
  8' Chimney Flute    61         8' Flute Celeste 49
  8' Dolce            61         4' Spindle Flute 61
  4' Octave           61         2' Principal     61
  4' Spire Flute      61     1 1/3' Quint         61
  2' Super Octave     61         8' Clarinet      61
 IV  Mixture         244            Tremulant
 16' Posaune          SW            Sub
  8' Trumpet          SW            Unison Off
                                    Super
     SWELL                      16' Posaune       SW
  8' Stopped Diapason 61         8' Trumpet       SW
  8' Viola da Gamba   61         4' Clarion       SW
  8' Vox Coelestis    49            Cymbelstern   10
  4' Principal        61
  4' Harmonic Flute   61            PEDAL
  2' Gemshorn         61        16' Open Diapason 12 GT
III  Mixture         183        16' Bourdon       GT
 16' Posaune          12         8' Octave        32
  8' Trumpet          61         8' Chimney Flute GT
     Tremulant                   4' Choralbass    12
     Sub                        16' Posaune       SW
     Unison Off                  8' Trumpet       SW
     Super

 [Received online from Jeff Scofield August 16, 2013]

Websites

[Casavant web site -- Charleston First Presbyterian page] - Photograph and digital image, stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)