Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. (1993)

Cornell College: King Memorial Chapel
600 First St. SW
Mount Vernon, IA

Images

2010-12-15 - Pipe Display and Console (Photograph by Nick Richards/Database Manager)

2010-12-15 - Console (Photograph by Nick Richards/Database Manager)

2016-06-11 - Church interior and exposed pipework (Cornell University/Jeff Scofield)

2023-01-18 - Church exterior (Preservation Iowa/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
65 stops
48 registers
5 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 thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2009-12-10 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The contract was for restoration and some tonal changes. -Database Manager

2009-12-13 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2021-12-14 - King Chapel sustained structural damage as a derecho with sustained winds of over 100mph passed through Eastern Iowa. The organ was removed to storage by the Organ Clearing House in December 2021. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist from rededication program Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

        Mount Vernon, Iowa
        Cornell Colege, King Chapel

        Casavant   1993   4/64

        This was a tonal restoration of the organ and did
        not include 'mechanical functioning of the organ.'

        GREAT                          SWELL
    16' Violone 61 (1)             16' Flauto Dolce 68
     8' Principal 61                8' Spitzgeigen 68
     8' Holzgedeckt 61              8' Rohrflöte 68
     4' Octave 61                   8' Salicional 68
     4' Spitzflöte 61               8' Voix Celeste 68
 2 2/3' Nazard 61                   8' Flauto Dolce 12
     2' Super Octave 61 (2)         8' Flauto Celeste 56 tc
     2' Waldflöte 61                4' Principal 68
 1 3/5' Tierce 61                   4' Nachthorn 68
II-III  Grand Fourniture (3)        2' Flautino 61
    IV  Fourniture 244 (2)         II  Kornett 122 (3)
     8' Trompete 61             III-V  Plein Jeu 269
        Tremolo                    16' Fagotto 68 (1-18 L/2)
        Unison Off                  8' Trompette 68
        Chimes 25                   8' Fagotto 12
        English Bells               4' Clairon 68
                                       Tremolo
        POSITIV                        Sub
     8' Gedeckt 61                     Unison Off
     8' Flauto Dolce II SW             Super
     4' Principal 61
     4' Koppelflöte 61                 PEDAL
     4' Flauto Dolce II SW         32' Bourdon 8
     2' Kleinoktav 61              16' Principal 32
 1 1/3' Larigot 61                 16' Bourdon 32
     1' Sifflöte 61                16' Quintaton GT
   III  Zimbel 183                 16' Flauto Dolce SW
     8' Krummhorn 61                8' Octave 32
        Tremolo                     8' Bourdon 12
        Sub                         8' Spitzflöte 32
        Unison Off                  8' Flauto Dolce SW
                                    4' Choralbass 32
        SOLO                        4' Flute Conique 12 (Spitzflöte)
     8' Doppelflöte 68              2' Flute Conique 12
     8' Viola 68                   IX  Grand Cornet 60
     8' Viola Celeste 68          III  Harmonics 96
     4' Doppelflöte 12            III  Mixtur 96
     8' English Horn 68            II  Acuta 24
        Tremolo                    32' Posaune 12 (3)
        Sub                        16' Posaune 32
        Unison Off                 16' Fagotto SW
        Super                       8' Trumpet 12
     8' Bombarde 68                 8' Fagotto SW
        Zimbelstern 4               4' Krummhorn PO

(1)Replaced 16' Quintaton; (2)replacement pipework; (3)new stop

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield December 13, 2009.]

Documents

Dedicatory program, via Jeff Scofield -Jeff Scofield

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#24439 - M. P. Möller Opus 10258 (1967)