St. Luke's Episcopal Church
5421 Germantown Avenue
Germantown
Philadelphia, PA
OHS convention: 1996, 2016
Images
2023-10-26 - 1956 rebuilding memento (in console). (Photograph by Kreg Ulery/Jim Stettner)
2023-10-26 - Trompette en Chamade (Photograph by Kreg Ulery/Kreg Ulery)
2023-10-26 - Trompette en Chamade on back wall (Photograph by Kreg Ulery/Kreg Ulery)
2022-05-25 - Console (Photograph by Luke Staisiunas, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-08-25 - Chancel and right organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-08-25 - Left organ case (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-08-25 - Chancel (Photograph by Len Levasseur, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2016-06-28 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2024-05-10 - Console (Rasaan Bourke/Rasaan Bourke)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 3 manuals
- 37 stops
- 42 registers
- 7 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 toe pistons
Notes
2010-01-30 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager
2010-10-24 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Op. 2304 was a contract for new windchests and console for the 1894 organ built by Carlton C. Michell in conjunction with Cole & Woodberry; a Trompette en Chamade was added in 1970 and Wicks rebuilt the Casavant windchests in 1992; renovated by Patrick J. Murphy & Associates ca. 2000; described as the "first full developed ... romantic organ in the United States." -Database Manager
2015-07-25 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Casavant Op. 2304 1955 3/43
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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GREAT First Div. SWELL First Div.
(unenclosed, 3½" wind) (4" wind pressure)
16' Bourdon 61 8' Geigen Diapason 61
8' Principal 61 8' Rohr Flute 61
8' Small Diapason 61 8' Viole d'Orchestre 61
8' Harmonic Flute 61 8' Voix Celeste GG 54
4' Octave 61 16' Contra Basson 61
2 2/3' Octave Quint 61 8' Vox Humana 61
2' Super Octave 61
SWELL Second Div.
GREAT Second Div. (7" wind pressure)
(enclosed, 7" wind) 4' Octave 61
V Mixture 305 III Mixture 183
16' Trombone 61 8' Cornopean 61
8' Tromba 61 8' Oboe 61
4' Clarion 61 Tremulant
Sub
CHOIR First Div. Super
(unenclosed, 3½" wind)
8' Viola 61 PEDAL
8' Flute Harmonique 61 32' Great Bass 12
8' Echo Viole 61 16' Open Diapason 32 wood
4' Orchestral Flute 61 16' Sub Bass 32
4' Salicet 61 8' Flute 32 wood
2' Piccolo 61 8' Viole d'Amour 32
8' Orchestral Oboe 61 new 8' Stopped Flute 12 new
(from 16' Sub Bass)
CHOIR Second Div. 4' Super Octave 12 new
(enclosed, 7" wind) (from 8' Flute)
8' Quintadena 61 16' Trombone 32
8' Echo Salicional 61 8' Tromba 12 new
4' Flute Octaviante 61 4' Clarion 12
8' Clarinet 61
Tremulant
[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 26, 2010]
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