Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2050 (1951)

St. Mary of the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church
134 Norfolk Street
Cambridge, MA

Images

2023-07-02 - Looking towards gallery, showing top of console and empty chamber. (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Exterior front (Photograph by FourSquare, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2011 - Exterior side (Photograph by FourSquare, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2020-01-05 - Church interior (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
27 stops
30 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler 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

2010-12-15 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The pipes and blower came from the existing organ at Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, Jamaica Plain, MA, when it was replaced in 1950 by Casavant Op. 2016. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Cambridge, Massachusetts
       St. Mary of the Annunciation R. C. Church

       Casavant   Op. 2050   1951   3/29

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

       * new pipework

       GREAT                        SWELL
    8' Open Diapason     68     16' Bourdon           68
    8' Hohl Flute        68 *    8' Open Diapason     68
    8' Dulciana          68      8' Stopped Diapason  68
    4' Octave            68      8' Viole de Gambe    68
2 2/3' Twelfth           61      8' Voix Celeste   GG 61
    2' Fifteenth         61      4' Harmonic Flute    68
  III  Mixture          183      2' Flautino          61
    8' Trumpet           68      8' Cornopean         68
       Super                     8' Oboe              68
       Chimes                       Tremulant
       Blank                        Sub
                                    Super
       CHOIR
    8' Geigen Principal  68         PEDAL
    8' Melodia           68     16' Open Diapason     32
    8' Gemshorn          68 *   16' Bourdon           32
    4' Flute d'Amour     68     16' Gedeckt           SW
2 2/3' Nazard            61 *    8' Principal         32
    2' Piccolo           61      8' Soft Flute        12
    8' Clarinet          68      4' Choral Bass       12
       Tremulant                    Blank
       Sub                          Blank
       Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield December 16, 2010]