St. James Methodist Church: Sanctuary
4611 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2010-11-28 - Console (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-11-28 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-11-28 - Sanctuary interior to rear (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-11-28 - Coupler rail and builder nameplate (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-11-28 - Chamber and facade pipes (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
2010-11-28 - Church exterior (Photograph by Stephen Schnurr/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 55 stops
- 50 registers
- 6 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
- Has sequencer
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2010-07-25 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2011-09-01 - Updated through online information from Steven Aycock. -- As of Sept, 2011 plans are that the organ is to be moved to St. John Cantius. -Database Manager
2013-10-21 - Restored by Casavant and moved to St. John Cantius R. C. Church, Chicago, in 2013. -Database Manager
2014-02-07 - Updated through online information from Jeff Weiler. -- This instrument was restored in a collaborative effort by the original builder and JL Weiler, Inc., Chicago. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Chicago, Illinois
St. James Methodist Church
Casavant Op. 1130 1926 4/55
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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GREAT SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason 73 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Open Diapason 73 8' Open Diapason 73
8' Second Open Diapason 73 8' Violin Diapason 73
8' Doppelflöte 73 8' Salicional 73
8' Gemshorn 73 8' Stopped Diapason 73
4' Octave 73 8' Viole da Gamba 73
4' Harmonic Flute 73 8' Voix Céleste II 134
IV Mixture 292 8' Aeoline 73
8' Trumpet 73 4' Violina 73
Super 4' Flauto Traverso 73
Chimes EC 2' Piccolo 61
III Dolce Cornet 219
CHOIR 16' Double Trumpet 73
16' Contra Gamba 73 8' Cornopean 73
8' Open Diapason 73 8' Oboe 73
8' Concert Flute 73 8' Vox Humana (soft) 73
8' Dulciana 73 4' Clarion 73
8' Unda Maris 73 Tremulant
4' Flute d'Amour 73 Sub
2 2/3' Nazard 73 Super
2' Flageolet 61 Chimes EC
8' Cor Anglais 73
8' Clarinet 73 SOLO
Tremulant 8' Stentorphone 73
Sub 8' Gross Flute 73
Super 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
Celesta 61 8' Viole Céleste 73
Celesta Sub 8' Tuba 73
Tremulant
PEDAL Sub
32' Double Open Diapason -- Super
16' Open Diapason 32
16' Bourdon 32 ECHO
16' Gamba CH 8' Echo Diapason 73
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW 8' Cor de Nuit 73
8' Flute (Open Diap) 12 4' Fern Flute 73
8' Stopped Flute 12 8' Musette 73
8' Cello 32 Tremulant
16' Trombone 32 Chimes (existing)
Chimes EC
In addition to a "16' stops On & Off" reversible piston,
there is also a "2' stops On & Off" reversible. Both have
indicator lights and do not affect the knobs.
[Received online from Jeff Scofield July 25, 2010]
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