Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2063 (1951)

Queen Street Baptist Church
57 Queen Street
St. Catharines, ON, CA

Images

2021-12-25 - Sanctuary interior with facade organ in front (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2016-03-23 - Church exterior (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-01-30 - Console (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-05-30 - Church interior to rear (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2017-02-04 - Church interior (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
25 stops
30 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-01-30 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2012-06-05 - Updated through online information from Andrew Henderson. -- - Choir division added 1960 (originally prepared in console) - Console renovated and SSL components installed, 1992 - Non-speaking casework from previous Legge organ retained; organ largely speaks through a ceiling grille above the choir loft. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from console 1990 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

St. Catharines, Ontario
Queen Street Baptist Church

Casavant Freres, Opus 2063 (1951)

GREAT

8'     Open Diapason
8'     Hohl Flute
8'     Dulciana
4'     Principal
4'     Flute d'amour
2'     Fifteenth
Chimes (from previous Legge organ)

SWELL

16'    Lieblich Gedeckt
8'     Geigen Principal
8'     Stopped Diapason
8'     Viola da gamba
8'     Voix Celeste
4'     Gemshorn
2'     Piccolo
1 1/3' Quint (originally Aeoline 8', replaced 1980s)
III    Mixture
8'     Trumpet
8'     Oboe
Tremulant

CHOIR (added 1960)

8'     Rohr Flute
8'     Viola
4'     Spitz Flute
2 2/3' Nazard
2/     Block Flute
8'     Krumhorn
Tremulant

PEDAL

16'    Major Bass (wood; added 1978, pipes from Christ Church, Toronto)
16'    Contra Bass
16'    Bourdon
16'    Gedackt (Swell)
8'     Octave
8'     Stopped Flute (ext)
4'     Choral Bass

 [Received from Andrew Henderson 2012-06-04.]