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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1288 (1928)

St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church
706 Beach Street
Flint, MI

Images

2006-11-15 - Organ Case (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

2006-11-15 - Nave, Gallery, and Organ Case (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
19 stops
3 divisions
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)
Has crescendo
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-08-19 - Identified through online information from Ray Ahrens. -- Restored 2006 by Brian M. Fowler -Database Manager

2018-03-06 - Pipework was restored, but console was altered with new stop knobs for prepared chancel divisions. Digital combination system and digital voices were added at some point. See organ ID 61565 for changes. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from console 6/27/2010 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

    Flint, Michigan
     St. Matthew's R. C. Church

     Casavant   Op. 1288   1928   2/21

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

     GALLERY ORGAN                CHANCEL ORGAN (prep)

     GREAT                        GREAT
  8' Open Diapason    68       8' Open Diapason     
  8' Melodia          68       8' Clarabella
  8' Dulciana         68       8' Gemshorn
  4' Principal        68       4' Octave
  4' Harmonic Flute   68          Sub
  8' Trumpet          68          Super
     Sub
     Super

     SWELL                        SWELL
 16' Gedeckt          68       8' Salicional
  8' Open Diapason    68       8' Voix Céleste
  8' Stopped Diapason 68       8' Stopped Diapason
  8' Viola di Gamba   68       4' Harmonic Flute
  8' Voix Céleste     68       8' Trumpet
  4' Traverse Flute   68          Tremulant
  2' Piccolo          61          Sub
III  Cornet          204          Super
  8' Cornopean        68
  8' Oboe             68
  8' Vox Humana       68
     Tremulant
     Sub
     Super

     PEDAL                        PEDAL
 16' Open Diapason    32      16' Bourdon
 16' Bourdon          32
 16' Gedeckt          12 SW
  8' Stopped Flute    12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield February 14, 2011]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#61463 - Brian M. Fowler (2006)