Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3062 (1970)

Emmanuel Episcopal Church: Sanctuary; front
203 South Kensington Avenue
La Grange, IL

OHS convention: 2012

Images

Unknown - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

Unknown - Chancel (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Chancel and Pipe Display (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Sanctuary Interior, Pipe Facade, and Pipe Display (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Chancel and Pipe Display (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Console (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-05-10 - Church Exterior (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
44 stops
46 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 56 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

2010-01-17 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-08-02 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Seven-stop Antiphonal prepared-for, but never installed. -Database Manager

2019-06-06 - The church has a three year fund raising project to refurbish the organ, it will be concluded in 2020. Casavant will take the pipes and chests back to the factory for the work. (source: "Pipe organ restoration fundraiser strikes a chord in La Grange " by Jesse Wright (Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2019) online edition, https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/la-grange/ct-dlg-episcopal-queen-of-hearts-tl-0530-story.html) -Database Manager

2020-12-08 - The church is completing the full restoration of its 1970 Casavant organ. The project is done collaboratively by Casavant Frères and Chicago-based JL Weiler, Inc. It includes complete releathering (windchests, wind system, expression), thorough cleaning, repairs and tonal reconditioning of the original pipework. The original Casavant console was retained, restored and provided with new solid-state multilevel combination and switching system. The Antiphonal division remains prepared for future addition. -Simon Couture / Casavant Frères

Stoplist

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

     La Grange, Illinois
     Emmanuel Episcopal Church

     Casavant   Op. 3062   1970   3/63

     Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
     St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
     ________________________________________________________

     GREAT                            RÉCIT
 16' Quintaden          56         8' Salicional           56
  8' Prinzipal          56         8' Voix céleste         56
  8' Rohrflöte          56         8' Cor de nuit          56
  4' Oktav              56         4' Principal conique    56
  4' Spitzflöte         56         4' Flûte                56
  2' Oktav              56     2 2/3' Nasard               56
  2' Blockflöte         56         2' Quarte de nasard     56
  V  Mixtur            280     1 3/5' Tierce               56
 16' Trompete    L/2    56         V  Plein Jeu           280
  8' Trompete           56        16' Basson    L/2        56
     Chimes                        8' Trompette            56
                                   8' Hautbois             56
     ANTIPHONAL [prepared]         4' Clairon              56
     7 blank drawknobs                Tremulant

     PEDAL                            POSITIV
 16' Prinzipal          32         8' Gedackt              56
 16' Subbass            32         8' Erzähler celeste II 100
 16' Quintaden          GT         4' Prinzipal            56
  8' Oktav              32         4' Koppelflöte          56
  8' Spitzgedackt       32         2' Oktav                56
  4' Choralbass         32     1 1/3' Quintflöte           56
  4' Rohrpfeife         32         1' Oktavlein            56
  V  Mixtur            160        II  Sesquialtera      gc 88
 16' Posaune            32        IV  Scharf              244
 16' Basson             RE       III  Zimbel              183
  8' Trompete           32         8' Krummhorn            56
  4' Rohrschalmei       32            Tremulant

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 2, 2010]