2015-01-12 - Console (Photograph by Morgan Byrd/Jeff Scofield)
2015-01-12 - Chancel and Pipe Display (Photograph by Morgan Byrd/Jeff Scofield)
2015-01-12 - Pedal Rocking Tablets (Photograph by Morgan Byrd/Database Manager)
2010-06-20 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The specification describes the project as the rebuilding and installation of the A. J. Fisher Memorial Organ, with new pipework and parts; the organ and console were renovated by Casavant in 1968. Seminary closed in 1988; reopened by diocese in 2000 as The Inn at St. John's Golf and Conference Center; the chapel is used for weddings and the organ is there, though a photo shows that it was evidently rebuilt with exposed pipework. -Database Manager
2015-01-24 - Updated through online information from Morgan Byrd. -Database Manager
2021-12-01 - The organ shown in the photos is not Opus 2233: It is the former chapel organ from Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Detroit, built by Casavant, I believe in the 1920s. It was rebuilt by Casavant with exposed pipework and an altered stoplist and erected in the north transpet of the cathedral in the late 1960s or very early 1970s. In anticipation of the new Austin chancel organ in the cathedral, the diocese moved it to St. John's. -William M. Worden
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Plymouth, Michigan
St. John's Seminary
Casavant Op. 2233 1954 2/25
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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* new pipework
GREAT SWELL
8' Open Diapason 68 8' Violin Diapason 68
8' Flute 68 8' Melodia 68
8' Gemshorn 68 8' Viol d'Orchestre 68
4' Octave 68 * 8' Viol Celeste 68
4' Flute 68 * 8' Viol d'Amour 68
2' Fifteenth 61 * 8' Unda Maris 68
III Mixture 183 * 4' Principal 68 *
8' Cornopean 68 4' Flauto Traverso 68
Tremulant 2' Piccolo 61 *
Super 8' French Horn 68
Chimes 8' Oboe 68
8' Vox Humana 68
PEDAL Tremulant
16' Open Diapason 32 Sub
16' Bourdon 32 Super
16' Gedeckt 32 Harp
8' Octave 12 *
8' Bass Flute 12 *
8' Gedeckt 12 *
4' Choralbass 12 *
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