Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1015 (1924)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church
232 Wyoming Avenue
Scranton, PA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
4 manuals
31 stops
34 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs
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 coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons

Notes

2010-10-18 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Designed by Charles Courboin; fourth manual (Echo) prepared-for; replaced in 1964 by 3/32 Möller Op. 9916. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Scranton, Pennsylvania
       St. Luke's Episcopal Church

       Casavant   Op. 1015   1924   4/34

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

       GREAT * (encl w/CH)           CHOIR (7")
   16' Open Diapason    73        8' Concert Flute         73
    8' First Diapason   73        8' Quintadena            73
    8' Second Diapason  73        8' Erzähler              73
    8' Gross Flute      73        8' Erzähler Celeste      73
    8' Wald Flute       73        4' Flute                 73
    4' Octave           73        8' Orchestral Oboe       73
   IV  Mixture         292           Tremolo
    8' Tromba           73           Sub
       Super                         Super
       Cathedral Chimes 20           Harp                  61
                                     Celesta
    *  Entire Great to be         8' Processional Diapason 61
       vigorously voiced            (located in Choir Room)
       and on 10" wind
                                     ECHO & ANTIPHONAL
       SWELL (5½")                   Blank
   16' Bourdon          73           Blank
    8' Diapason         73           Blank
    8' Gedeckt          73           Blank
    8' Salicional       73           Blank
    8' Voix Celeste     73           Blank
    8' Aeoline          73           Blank
    4' Flute            73           Blank
2 2/3' Nazard           61 *
    2' Piccolo          61 *         PEDAL
1 1/7' Septième         61 *     16' Diapason              32
  III  Mixture (draws *)         16' Bourdon               32
    8' Cornopean        73       16' Echo Bourdon          SW
    8' Flugel Horn      73   10 2/3' Quint                  7
    8' Vox Humana  pp   73        8' Octave                12
       Tremolo                    8' Gedeckt                5
       Sub                       16' Trombone              32
       Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 19, 2010]

Documents

(1933-03-03) Leon Verrees Organ Recital St. Luke Episcopal Scranton PA 1933 Scranton Tribune article announcing the Leon Verrees organ recital at St Luke Episcopal, Scranton PA on 3/3/1933 -Craig Otto