Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 2813 (1964)

Assumption Catholic Church
45 North Sprague Avenue
Bellevue, PA

OHS convention: 2010

Images

2018 - Interior from gallery to front (Photograph by Adam Boyle, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Organ and chambers in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2014-06-07 - Great and Pedal Pipework (Photograph by Joseph Rulli/Database Manager)

2014-06-07 - Great and Pedal Pipe Facade (Photograph by Joseph Rulli/Database Manager)

2014-06-07 - Nave, Balcony, and Pipe Facade (Photograph by Joseph Rulli/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
33 stops
33 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-11-18 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2014-06-23 - Updated through online information from Joseph Rulli. -- According to the organist, Dr. Neil Stahurski, the organ is scheduled to be releathered and refurbished in 2015. -Database Manager

2015-07-24 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Lawrence Phelps. -Database Manager

2022-12-15 - John Rutter's well-known "Candlelight Carol" was commission by this church. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

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

       Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
       Church of the Assumption, Bellevue

       Casavant   Op. 2813   1964   3/42

       GREAT                           SWELL
   16' Quintade 61                  8' Nachthorn 61
    8' Principal 61                 8' Salicional 61
    8' Rohrflöte 61                 8' Salicional Celeste 54 GG
    4' Octave 61                    4' Principal 61
    4' Rohrflöte 61                 2' Octave 61
    2' Octave 61                   IV  Scharf 244
   IV  Mixture 244                 16' Fagott 61  L/2
                                    8' Trompete 61
       CHOIR                           Tremulant
    8' Gedackt 61
    8' Spitzflöte 61                   PEDAL
    8' Spitzflöte Celeste 54 GG    16' Principal 32
    4' Gemshorn 61                 16' Subbass 32
2 2/3' Nasat 61                     8' Octave 32
    2' Blackflöte [sic] 61          8' Gedackt 32
1 3/5' Terz 61                      4' Choralbass 32
1 1/3' Quintflöte 61               IV  Mixture 128
    8' Krummhorn 61                16' Posaune 32
       Tremulant                    8' Trompete 32
                                    4' Schalmei 32

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield November 19, 2009.]