Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 940 (1922)

Grace Episcopal Church
924 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL

OHS convention: 2012

Images

1922-04-23 - Console (Casavant Promotional Photograph; image courtesy of Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)

2011-04-28 - Sanctuary Interior and Chancel (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-04-28 - Chancel and Pipe Facades (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

2011-04-28 - Baptistry (Photograph by William T. Van Pelt/Database Manager)

1922-11-01 - Twin Pipe Facades (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1922-11-01 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
4 manuals
58 stops
64 registers
7 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2010-07-25 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Alterations over the years, including an Austin console; now 4/76. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Oak Park, Illinois
    Grace Episcopal Church

    Casavant   Op. 940   1922   4/67

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

    GREAT                             SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason 61       16' Bourdon           73
   (1-12 from Pedal Bourdon)       8' Open Diapason     73
 8' First Open Diapason  73        8' Clarabella        73
 8' Second Open Diapason 73        8' Stopped Diapason  73
 8' Open Diapason        73 *      8' Viola da Gamba    73
 8' Violin Diapason      73        8' Voix Céleste      73
 8' Doppelflöte          73        8' Aeoline           73
 8' Salicional           73        4' Principal         73
 4' Octave               73        4' Flauto Traverso   73
 4' Harmonic Flute       73        2' Piccolo           61
 2' Super Octave         61       IV  Cornet           292
IV  Mixture             292       16' Double Trumpet    73
 8' Trumpet              73        8' Cornopean         73
 4' Clarion              73        8' Oboe              73
    Sub                            8' Vox Humana        73
    Unison Off                        Tremulant
    Super                             Sub
    Chimes               SO           Unison Off
                                      Super
 *  Located in corridor               Chimes            SO
    50' from the organ
                                      CHOIR
    ECHO                           8' Open Diapason     73
 8' Open Diapason        73        8' Melodia           73
 8' Hohlflöte            73        8' Ducliana          73
 8' Cor-de-Nuit          73        8' Quintadena        73
 8' Gamba                73        8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
 8' Viola Céleste II    146        4' Waldflöte         73
 8' Unda Maris II       146        2' Flageolet         61
 4' Octave               73        8' Clarinet          73
 4' Fern Flute           73           Tremulant
 8' Vox Humana           73           Sub
    Tremulant                         Unison Off
 8' Tuba Magna           73           Super
                                      Chimes            SO
    ECHO PEDAL
16' Bourdon              32           SOLO
                                   8' Stentorphone      73
    PEDAL                          8' Grossflöte        73
32' Double Open Diapason  7        8' Violoncello       73
16' Open Diapason        32        4' Flute Ouverte     73
16' Bourdon              32        8' Tuba              73
16' Violone              32        8' French Horn       73
16' Gedeckt              SW           Tremulant
 8' Flute  (Open Diap)   12           Sub
 8' Bourdon              32           Unison Off
 8' Violoncello          12           Super
16' Trombone             32           Chimes            25
 8' Trumpet              12
 4' Clarion              12

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield  July 25, 2010]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON December 1922 Description, stoplist and console photo -Jeff Scofield
Write-up from THE DIAPASON May 1922 Description and stoplist -Jeff Scofield