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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2070 (1951)

Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis: St. Francis of Assisi R. C. Church
4849 Laverna Road
Springfield, IL

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2018-04-19 - Church interior; organ installed in second-level arches (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

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Notes

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

2010-07-26 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- Choir division prepared-for; there was also a one-manual console 'in the organ loft' that controlled four Swell and two Pedal stops; new Great installed by somebody else, but it was replaced when Casavant renovated the organ in phases beginning c.1995, which also included a Choir division; the one-manual console was given St. Agnes Cathedral, Springfield IL, as a second console for Casavant Op. 3841. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

       Springfield, Illinois
       St. Francis Convent

       Casavant   Op. 2070   1951   3/17

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

       GREAT (enclosed)           SWELL
    8' Open Diapason   68     16' Gedeckt           68
    8' Rohr Flute      68      8' Geigen Diapason   68
    8' Gemshorn        68      8' Stopped Diapason  68
    4' Principal       68      8' Viola da Gamba    68
2 2/3' Twelfth         61      8' Voix Celeste   GG 61
    2' Fifteenth       61      4' Octave Geigen     68
    8' Trumpet         68      4' Traverse Flute    68
       Tremulant               2' Piccolo           61
       Sub                     8' Oboe              68
       Super                      Tremulant
                                  Sub
       CHOIR (prepared)           Super
    8' Viola
    8' Melodia                    PEDAL (encl w/GT)
    8' Dulciana               16' Principal         12 GT
    4' Lieblich Flute         16' Bourdon           32
2 2/3' Nazard                 16' Gedeckt           SW
    2' Flageolet               8' Octave            12
       Tremulant               8' Stopped Flute     12
       Sub                    16' Trumpet           12 GT
       Super
       Chimes

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  July 29, 2010]

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