Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2195 (1953)

First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
1008 Eleventh Street
Santa Monica, CA

Images

1953-07-11 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1953-07-11 - Console and Choir Loft (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1953-07-11 - Chancel and Chamber Grillework (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
40 stops
33 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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-03-08 - Identified by Rae Bolton from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager

2010-04-13 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 16 ranks (including entire Choir division) added in 1960. -Database Manager

2011-04-18 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Rebuilt and enlarged by Robert M. Turner 1986 and 1994, with new 4-manual console. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Santa Monica, California
       First Methodist Church

       Casavant   Op. 2195   1953   3/38

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

       GREAT                              CHOIR
    8' Open Diapason     68 (1)        8' Viola            68 (1960)
    8' Hohl Flöte        68            8' Nachthorn        68 (1960)
    8' Gemshorn          68            8' Erzähler         68 (1960)
    4' Octave            68            8' Flute Celeste tc 54 (1960)
    4' Harmonic Flute    68            4' Spitzflöte       68 (1960)
    2' Fifteenth         61            4' Koppelflöte      68 (1960)
  III  Mixture          183        2 2/3' Nazard           61 (1960)
    8' Trompette         68 (1960)     2' Blockflöte       61 (1960)
       Blank                           8' Krummhorn        68 (1960)
       Blank                              Tremulant
       Chimes            pf               Sub
                                          Super
       SWELL                              Chimes
   16' Bourdon           68               Harp
    8' Violin Diapason   68
    8' Rohr Flöte        68               PEDAL
    8' Viola da Gamba    68           16' Open Diapason GT 12 (1960)
    8' Salicional        68           16' Bourdon          32
    8' Voix Celeste GG   61           16' Gedeckt          SW
    8' Aeoline           pf (2)        8' Octave           GT (1960)
    4' Octave Geigen     68            8' Violoncello      32
    4' Flauto Traverso   68            8' Stopped Flute    12
    2' Piccolo           61 (1960)     4' Super Octave     GT (1960)
   IV  Cornet           244 (1960)    16' Posaune       GT 12 (1960)
    8' Trumpet           68
    8' Oboe              pf
    8' Vox Humana        68
    4' Clarion           68 (1960)
       Tremulant
       Sub
       Super

   (1) Replaced by 8' Principal 68 in 1960; (2) the Aeoline chest was
       added in 1960, but no pipes

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield April 13, 2010.]