Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 961 (1923)

First Presbyterian Church
362 State Street
Albany, NY

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
4 manuals
38 stops
44 registers
5 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2010-08-12 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Originally installed behind a center façade; pipework moved to chambers above the chancel in 1927; a new movable console was installed in 1988; organ cleaned and restored in 1996 by Luc Santoire (a descendant of the original installers), with a new Trumpet and IV Mixture added to the Great; in 2005, eleven Walker digital stops were added. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Albany, New York
       First Presbyterian Church

       Casavant   Op. 961   1923   4/44

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

    *  furnished by Casavant in 1996

       GREAT                            SWELL
   16' Open Diapason        68      16' Bourdon                  68
    8' 1st Open Diapason    68       8' Open Diapason            68
    8' 2nd Open Diapason    68       8' Stopped Diapason         68
    8' Hohlflöte            68       8' Viola da Gamba           68
      (hardwood, bright)             8' Voix Céleste          tc 56
    8' Rohrflote            68       8' Aeoline    (very soft)   68
    4' Principal            68       4' Flauto Traverso          68
    4' Harmonic Flute       68       4' Violina                  68
2 2/3' Twelfth              68       2' Piccolo                  61
    2' Fifteenth            61      IV  Cornet  (for ensemble)  272
   IV  Mixture             244 *     8' Cornopean                68
    8' Trumpet              68       8' Oboe       (French)      68
    8' Trumpet              61 *     8' Vox Humana (rather soft) 68
       Chimes               CH          Tremulant
       Celesta              CH          Sub
                                        Super
       SOLO                             Chimes                   CH
    8' Grossflöte           68          Celesta                  CH
    8' Viole d'Orchestre    68
    8' Viole Celeste        68          CHOIR
    8' Tuba                 68       8' Violin Diapason          68
      (English type, to              8' Melodia   (not thick)    68
       top the organ)                8' Quintadena               68
    8' Cor Anglais          68       8' Dulciana                 68
       Tremulant                     4' Flute d'Amour            68
       Sub                           8' Clarinet                 68
       Super                            Tremulant
                                        Sub
       PEDAL                            Super
   16' Open Diapason        32          Chimes                   25
   16' Open Diapason        GT          Harp                     61
   16' Bourdon              32          Celesta Sub
   16' Gedeckt              SW
    8' Octave               12            
    8' Bass Flute           12
    8' Still Gedeckt        SW
   16' Trombone             32
    8' Tromba               12
       Chimes               CH

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 12, 2010]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON August 1922 Description and stoplist -Jeff Scofield