Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1989 (1950)

Main Street United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
154 Main Street
Nashua, NH

Images

2018-06-30 - Church exterior (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-03-22 - Church interior (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-04-11 - Pipe Façade (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1950-08-11 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
25 stops
33 registers
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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2010-02-19 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-04-07 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The website said that the organ is being restored by Casavant over a 3-year period. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Nashua, New Hampshire
       Main Street Methodist Church

       Casavant   Op. 1989   1949   2/28

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

       * old pipework retained from the 1870 Steere & Turner

       GREAT (+ enclosed)            SWELL
+  16' Bourdon       68           8' Geigen Principal  68 (new bass)
    8' Open Diapason 68           8' Stopped Diapason  68 *
+   8' Hohlflute     68 *         8' Viole de Gambe    68
+   8' Dulciana      68           8' Voix Celeste      61 * GG
       (new bass)                 4' Principal         68 *
    4' Octave        68           4' Flûte Harmonique  68 *
+   4' Rohr Flute    68       2 2/3' Nazard            61
2 2/3' Quinte        61 *         2' Piccolo           61
    2' Super Octave  61 *     1 3/5' Tierce            61
   IV  Mixture      244          16' Clarinet          68
       Tremulant                  8' Trompette         68
       Unison Off                 8' Vox Humana        68
       Super                      4' Oboe Clarion      68
                                     Tremulant
       PEDAL                         Sub
   16' Contra Bass   32              Unison Off
   16' Gemshorn      32              Super
   16' Bourdon       GT
    8' Octave        32 (1)
    8' Gemshorn      12
    8' Bourdon       GT
5 1/3' Quint          7 (2)
    4' Choral Bass   12
    4' Bourdon       GT
   16' Trombone      12 SW
    8' Trumpet       SW

   (1) Old Great Diapason
   (2) From Pedal Gemshorn

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 07, 2010.]