Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1973 (1949)

Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church
354 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, ON, CA

Images

2020-02-04 - 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
2 manuals
25 stops
35 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat 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

Notes

2010-02-09 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2014-02-09 - Updated through online information from Lew Williams. -- Organ designed by Quentin Maclean in collaboration with Stephen Stoot -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives

       Toronto, Ontario
       Church of the Holy Rosary, R.C.

       Casavant   Op. 1973   1949   2/25
       ______________________________________________________________________

       GREAT (enclosed)        SWELL                         PEDAL

   16' Quintaton      68   16' Contra Gamba     68       16' Sub Bass      32
    8' Open Diapason  68    8' Horn Diapason    68       16' Quintaton     GT
    8' Hohlflöte      68    8' Doppelflöte      68       16' Gamba         SW
    8' Spitzflöte     68    8' Salicional       68   10 2/3' Octave Quint  32
    8' Flute Celeste  56    8' Gamba            12        8' Octave        32
    4' Principal      68    8' Gamba Celeste    61        8' Flute Bass    12
    4' Harmonic Flute 68    4' Octave Gamba     12        8' Gamba         SW
    4' Gemshorn       68    4' Rohrflöte        68    5 1/3' Quint         12
2 2/3' Twelfth        61  III  Cornet 12-15-17 183        4' Super Octave  12
    2' Fifteenth      61    8' Trumpet          68        4' Octave Gamba  12
       Tremulant            8' Vox Humana       68       16' Trombone      32
       Sub                     Tremulant                  8' Posaune       12
       Unison Off              Sub
       Super                   Unison Off
                               Super

                    [Received from Jeff Scofield June 9, 2020]

Stoplist from Lew Williams Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

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Documents

(1951-09-16) "Background Music" Which Can Steal the Show Article in <em>CBC Times</em>, September 1951 -Database Manager