Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1369 (1930)

Sisters of the Sacred Heart: Chapel
171 Lake Shore Road
Grosse Pointe, MI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

1930-09-22 - Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
12 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
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
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2010-06-14 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Renamed Grosse Pointe Academy in 1969; replaced by small tracker and dispersed ca. 1980; console to a residence in Livonia. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Grosse Pointe, Michigan
   Sisters of the Sacred Heart

   Casavant   Op. 1369   1930   2/12

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

   GREAT                   SWELL                       PEDAL
8' Open Diapason  68    8' Open Diapason    61 *   16' Bourdon 32
8' Melodia        68    8' Stopped Diapason 68
8' Dulciana       68    8' Viola di Gamba   68
4' Principal      68    8' Voix Céleste     68
4' Lieblichflöte  68    4' Harmonic Flute   68
   Sub                  8' Cornopean        68
   Super                   Tremulant
                           Sub 
*  7 from Stpd Diapason    Super

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 15, 2010.]