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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 454 (1911)

Sinai Temple: Sanctuary
47th St. and Grand Blvd.
Chicago, IL

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

Images

1911-12-30 - Temple Interior and Twin Pipe Facades (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
63 stops
58 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-08-03 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- When the building was sold, Op. 454 was put in storage until replaced in a new building by 1950 3/31 Wicks Op. 2996, retaining some of the Casavant pipework. -Database Manager

2010-08-04 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Chicago, Illinois
       Sinai Temple

       Casavant   Op. 454   1911   3/67

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

       GREAT                           SWELL
   16' Double Open       68        16' Bourdon           68
   16' Bourdon           68         8' Open Diapason     68 *
    8' 1st Open Diapason 68 *       8' Violin Diapason   68
    8' 2nd Open Diapason 68         8' Clarabella        68
    8' 3rd Open Diapason 68         8' Salicional        68
    8' Harmonic Flute    68         8' Stopped Flute     68
    8' Gemshorn          68         8' Voix Céleste II  136
    8' Doppelflöte       68         8' Viole d'Orchestre 68
    8' Gamba             68         8' Aeoline           68
    4' Principal         68         4' Octave            68
    4' Traverse Flute    68 *       4' Flûte Traverse    68
    4' Waldflöte         68         4' Violin            68
2 2/3' Twelfth           68         2' Harmonic Piccolo  61
    2' Fifteenth         61       III  Dolce Cornet     204
  III  Mixture          204        IV  Mixture          272
   II  Mixture          136        16' Contra Fagotto    68
   16' Double Trumpet    68         8' Cornopean         68 *
    8' Trumpet           68 *       8' Oboe              68
    4' Clarion           68         8' Vox Humana        68
       Super                        4' Clarion           68
                                       Tremulant
    *  on 6-7" wind                    Sub
                                       Super
       CHOIR
    8' Geigen Principal  68         *  on 6-8" wind
    8' Open Diapason     68
    8' Dulciana          68            PEDAL
    8' Melodia           68        32' Double Open        6
    4' Flûte d'Amour     68           (polyphonic)
    4' Salicet           68        16' Open Diapason     30
    2' Piccolo           61        16' Bourdon           30
    8' Cor Anglais       68        16' Violone           30
    8' Clarinet          68        16' Lieblich Gedeckt  SW
       Tremulant                    8' Flute             12 (Open Diap)
       Sub                          8' Principal         30 *
       Super                        8' Bourdon           30 
                                    8' Violoncello       12
       SOLO (floating, 10" wind)    4' Flute             12 (Open Diap)
    8' Stentorphone      68        16' Trombone          30 *
    4' Concert Flute     68         8' Tromba            30 *
    8' Tuba Mirabilis    68
       Sub                          *  on 8" wind
       Super

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 4, 2010]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#36562†* - Wicks Organ Co. Opus 2996 (1952ca.)