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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1994 (1950)

First Baptist Church: Sanctuary
1300 Oxford Street
Halifax, NS, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
28 stops
25 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)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2011-10-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 11 stops (18 ranks) added by Casavant in 1968 and six stops (10 ranks) added in 1983; the totals include some replacement stops; additional work done by J. Jean Girouard in 1984; console rebuilt in 2001 by Hugh Knapton & Son. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Halifax, Nova Scotia
   First Baptist Church

   Casavant   Op. 1994   1950   3/25

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

   GREAT                       SWELL
8' Open Diapason     68    16' Bourdon          68
8' Hohl Flute        68     8' Open Diapason    68
8' Gemshorn          68     8' Stopped Diapason 68
4' Principal         68     8' Viola da Gamba   68
4' Harmonic Flute    68     8' Voix Celeste     61
2' Fifteenth         61     8' Aeoline          68
   Super                    4' Flauto Traverso  68
                            2' Piccolo          68
   CHOIR                    8' Cornopean        68
8' Geigen Principal  68     8' Oboe             68
8' Melodia           68        Tremulant
8' Dulciana          68        Sub
4' Dolce Flute       68        Super
2' Flautino          61
8' Clarinet          68        PEDAL
8' Vox Humana        68    16' Open Diapason    32
   Tremulant               16' Bourdon          32
   Sub                     16' Gedeckt          SW
   Super                    8' Octave           12
   Chimes                   8' Stopped Flute    12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 7, 2011]

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