Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2049 (1951)

Methodist Church / Wilmot United Church: Sanctuary
473 King Street
Fredericton, NB, CA

Images

2002-08-01 - Console (Photograph by Peter Gough, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2001-08-01 - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Facades (Photograph by Rev. Garth Caseley, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2001-08-01 - Church Exterior (Photograph by Harvey Kaye/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
27 stops
32 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 Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-02-20 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2014-05-01 - Updated through online information from Harvey Kaye. -- On Sunday, February 18, 2001, exactly 50 years after the original dedication of the organ on February 18, 1951, the re-dedication of the organ took place. That evening, a golden jubilee recital was presented by Michael Capon, who at the time was the organist and choir director at Christ Church Cathedral. <br>Restoration work on the organ console continued in the summer of 2001.<br>The cost to install the original Casavant pipe organ in 1951 was $28,724. The restoration 50 years later cost approximately $105,000. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Freres Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Fredericton, New Brunswick
       Wilmot United Church

       Casavant   Op. 2049   1951   3/29
       ______________________________________________

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       St. Hyacinthe, Québec

       GREAT                      CHOIR
    8' Open Diapason   68      8' Geigen Principal 68
    8' Concert Flute   68      8' Melodia          68
    8' Gemshorn        68      8' Dulciana         68
    4' Principal       68      4' Lieblich Flute   68
    4' Harmonic Flute  68      2' Flageolet        61
2 2/3' Twelfth         61      8' Clarinet         68
    2' Fifteenth       61         Tremulant
       Super                      Sub
                                  Super
       SWELL
   16' Gedeckt         68         PEDAL
    8' Open Diapason   68     16' Contra Bass      32
    8' Rohr Flute      68     16' Bourdon          32
    8' Viola da Gamba  68     16' Gedeckt          SW
    8' Voix Celeste    61      8' Octave           12
    8' Aeoline         68      8' Stopped Flute    12
    4' Violin Diapason 68      4' Choral Bass      12
    4' Flauto Traverso 68     16' Trumpet          12 SW
    2' Piccolo         61
  III  Dolce Cornet   183
    8' Trumpet         68
    8' Oboe            68
       Tremulant
       Sub
       Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 8, 2014]

Websites

Wilmot United Church - Casavant Pipe Organ - Photographs, link to stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)