Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 2013 (1950)

Wolfville Baptist Church: Sanctuary
487 Main St.
Wolfville, NS, CA

Images

2019-12-10 - Church exterior (Photograph by Aaron Blank Cameron via church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-12-10 - Organ chamber across rear gallery (Photograph by Aaron Blank Cameron via church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-12-10 - Stained-glass windows; console in front of side doors (Photograph by Aaron Blank Cameron via church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-12-10 - Chancel (Photograph by Aaron Blank Cameron via church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
2 manuals
23 stops
18 registers
3 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

Notes

2010-02-26 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2011-10-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- According to the church website, in 2009, "the organ was completely disassembled, cleaned and the reeds rebuilt." -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Wolfville, Nova Scotia
       Wolfville Baptist Church

       Casavant   Op. 2013   1950   2/20

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

       GREAT                    SWELL                      PEDAL
    8' Open Diapason  68     8' Violin Diapason 68     16' Contra Bass    32
    8' Hohl Flute     68     8' Chimney Flute   68     16' Bourdon        32
    8' Dulciana       68     8' Viola da Gamba  68      8' Octave         12
    4' Octave         68     8' Voix Celeste    61      8' Stopped Flute  12
    4' Harmonic Flute 68     4' Gemshorn        68      4' Choral Bass    12
2 2/3' Twelfth        61   III  Cornet         183      4' Flute          12
    2' Fifteenth      61    16' Contra Fagotto  68 h   16' Contra Fagotto SW
       Super                 8' Trumpet         68 h
                             4' Clarion         61 h
                                Tremulant
                                Sub
                                Unison Off
    h  high wind pressure       Super
                                Blank

             [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 31, 2011]