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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1690 (1942)

St. Paul's Lutheran Church
25 W. Springettsbury Ave.
York, PA

Images

2012-12-12 - Console (Photograph by Evan Brickner/Database Manager)

2019-10-17 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
50 stops
59 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-11-09 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Replaced 1926 4/57 Casavant Op. 1149 that burned in 1939. -Database Manager

2012-12-12 - Updated through online information from Evan Brickner. -Database Manager

2017-06-29 - Updated by Scott Crowell, who has heard or played the organ.<br> A new movable console will be built by Létourneau later this year. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       York, Pennsylvania
       St. Paul's Lutheran Church

       Casavant   Op. 1690   1942   3/60

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

       GREAT                            CHOIR
   16' Diapason          73         16' Contra Viole      73
    8' Diapason          73          8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Diapason          73          8' Gross Flute       73 hp
    8' Hohlflöte         73          8' Concert Flute     73
    8' Gemshorn          73          8' Viola             73
    4' Octave            73          8' Viole d'Orchestre 73 hp
    4' Principal         73          8' Viole Celeste     73 hp
    4' Flute d'Amour     73          8' Dulciana          73
2 2/3' Twelfth           61          8' Unda Maris        73
    2' Fifteenth         61          4' Gemshorn          73
   IV  Mixture          244          4' Lieblich Flute    73
       Great                     2 2/3' Nazard            61
    8' Tuba Minor        CH          2' Piccolo           61
    8' French Horn       CH      1 3/5' Tierce            61
       Chimes            CH          8' Clarinet          73
       Celesta           CH             Tremulant
       Celesta Sub       CH          8' Tuba Minor        73 hp
                                     8' French Horn       73 hp
       SWELL                            Sub
   16' Lieblich Bourdon  73             Super
    8' Open Diapason     73             Chimes (existing) 25
    8' Gedeckt           73             Celesta           61
    8' Salicional        73             Celesta Sub
    8' Voix Celeste      73
    8' Flauto Dolce      73             PEDAL
    8' Flute Celeste     73         16' Open Diapason     32 w
    4' Octave            73         16' Open Diapason     GT m
    4' Flauto Traverso   73         16' Bourdon           32
    2' Flautino          61         16' Violone           32
    V  Mixture          305         16' Viole             CH
   16' Double Trumpet    73         16' Echo Bourdon      SW
    8' Cornopean (large) 73          8' Octave            12
    8' Oboe              73          8' Principal         32 m bearded
    8' Vox Humana (soft) 73          8' Flute             12
    4' Clarion           73          8' Gedeckt           SW
       Tremulant                 5 1/3' Twelfth           32
       Sub                           4' Flute             12
       Super                        IV  Mixture          128
       Chimes            CH         16' Tuba              12 CH
       Celesta           CH         16' Trumpet           SW
       Celesta Sub       CH             Chimes            CH

[Received online from Jeff Scofield  November 9, 2010]

Documents

Write-up from THE DIAPASON December 1941 Stoplist and description -Jeff Scofield

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