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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1086 (1925)

Union College: Memorial Chapel
807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY

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

Images

1925-10-28 - Organ Case and Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

2023-03-31 - Console (Jared Ovitt/Jared Ovitt)

2023-03-31 - Left stopjamb (Jared Ovitt/Jared Ovitt)

2023-03-31 - Right stopjamb (Jared Ovitt/Jared Ovitt)

2023-03-31 - Coupler rail (Jared Ovitt/Jared Ovitt)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
35 stops
38 registers
4 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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-08-14 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Renovated by Casavant in 1958 with tonal changes; movable platform and other miscellaneous parts furnished by Casavant in 1968. -Database Manager

2025-01-31 - There and playable as of 2024 when we last tuned this instrument. There are a few bad stop actions but is otherwise in OK shape. The console was built by Austin and sits on a movable dolly. Original switching system is still in use. -Jared Ovitt

Stoplist

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

       Schenectady, New York
       Union College

       Casavant   Op. 1086   1925   3/39

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

       GREAT                        SWELL
   16' Dbl Open Diapason 73     16' Bourdon           73
    8' Open Diapason     73      8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Hohlflöte         73      8' Stopped Diapason  73
    8' Dolce             73      8' Viola de Gamba    73
    4' Octave            73      8' Voix Céleste      73
    4' Harmonic Flute    73      8' Aeoline           73
    2' Fifteenth         61      4' Flauto Traverso   73
  III  Mixture          219      2' Piccolo           61
    8' Trumpet           73    III  Dolce Cornet     219
       Super                     8' Cornopean         73
       Chimes            CH      8' Oboe              73
                                 8' Vox Humana        73
       CHOIR                        Tremulant
    8' Geigen Principal  73         Sub
    8' Melodia           73         Super
    8' Viole d'Orchestre 73         Chimes            CH
    8' Quintadena        73
    8' Dulciana          73         PEDAL
    4' Waldflöte         73     16' Open Diapason     32
2 2/3' Nazard            73     16' Bourdon           32
    2' Flageolet         61     16' Gedeckt           SW
1 3/5' Tierce            73      8' Octave            12
    8' Tuba              73      8' Stopped Flute     12
    8' Clarinet          73     16' Trombone          32
       Tremulant                    Chimes            CH
       Sub
       Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  August 15, 2010]

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