Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2135 (1952)

Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School: Chapel
101 Mason Boulevard
Toronto, ON, CA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2020-10-20 - Console (Dedication plaque, the blower's "on" indicator, some stop tabs, the crescendo pedal, and the swell expression pedal) (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

2020-10-20 - Console (Manuals and the stop tabs, with focus on the swell stops. The cornopean, which is too out of tune to be usable, is marked X) (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

2020-10-20 - Console (crescendo dial, some pistons, the pedal stops, the great stops, and the couplers) (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

2020-10-20 - Console (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

2020-10-21 - Organ chamber at top of nave rear wall (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

2020-10-21 - Nave interior (Photograph by Alessandro Sisti/Alessandro Sisti)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
14 stops
16 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2010-02-27 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2015-07-14 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2022-11-26 - The blower for the organ stopped working circa June 2021. I have been an organist with the NCBC's Daily TV Mass, which uses this location to record. -Alessandro Sisti

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives

   Toronto, Ontario
   Loretto Abbey

   Casavant   Op. 2135   1952   2/14
   ____________________________________________________________________

   GREAT (enclosed)       SWELL                        PEDAL

8' Open Diapason 68    8' Open Diapason    68 *    16' Bourdon       32 
8' Melodia       68    8' Stopped Diapason 68      16' Gedeckt    SW 12
8' Dulciana      68    8' Gamba            68       8' Stopped Flute 12
4' Principal     68    8' Celeste          61 *
2' Piccolo       61    8' Aeoline          68       *  new
   Super               4' Traverse Flute   68
                       8' Cornopean        68
                       8' Oboe             68
                          Tremulant
                          Sub
                          Super

              [Received from Jeff Scofield June 30, 2020]