Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 899 (1921)

Eliot Congregational Church
474 Centre Street
Newton, MA

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

Images

1921-11-11 - Console (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
78 stops
70 registers
6 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: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2010-12-02 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Destroyed when the meeting house burned in February 1956. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Newton, Massachusetts
       The Elliot Church

       Casavant   Op. 899   1921   4/76

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

       * new pipework, the rest existing
       __________________________________________________

       GREAT                         SWELL
   16' Open Diapason    68       16' Bourdon           68
    8' First Diapason   68        8' Diapason Phonon   68 *
    8' Second Diapason  68        8' Open Diapason     68
    8' Gross Flute      68        8' Open Flute        68 *
    8' Harmonic Flute   68 *      8' Viol d'Orchestre  68 *
    8' Gamba            68        8' Voix Céleste      56 *
    8' Gemshorn         68 *      8' Salicional        68
    4' Octave           68        8' Gedeckt           68
    4' Harmonic Flute   68        8' Aeoline           68
2 2/3' Twelfth          68        4' Octave            68 *
    2' Fifteenth        61        4' Flauto Traverso   68
   IV  Mixture         272        4' Violina           68
   16' Double Trumpet   68 *      2' Flautino          61
    8' Trumpet          68       IV  Dolce Cornet     272
       Chimes           SO       16' Contra Fagotto    68 *
                                  8' Cornopean         68
       CHOIR                      8' Oboe              68
   16' Dulciana         68        8' Vox Humana        68
    8' Open Diapason    68           Tremulant
    8' Lieblich Gedeckt 68 *         Sub
    8' Melodia          68           Super
    8' Dulciana         68
    8' Unda Maris       68 *         ECHO
    4' Fugara           68        8' Open Diapason     68
    4' Flute d'Amour    68        8' Gedeckt           68 *
    2' Piccolo          61        8' Viola             68
    8' Clarinet         68        8' Viol d'Orchestre  68
    8' Orchestral Oboe  68 *      8' Unda Maris        68
    8' Musette          68 *      8' Quintadena        68
    8' Physharmonica    68      8+4  Bifera            68 *
       Tremulant                  4' Night Horn        68 *
       Tremulant-Physhrmnc        4' Salicet           68
       Super                      4' Flute Dolce       68
                                  8' Vox Humana        68
       SOLO                          Tremulant
    8' Stentorphone     68 *         Sub
    8' Diapason         68           Super
    8' Gross Flute      68           Carillons
    8' Gamba            68
    8' Gamba Céleste    68           PEDAL
    8' Tuba Mirabilis   68 *     32' Contra Bourdon    32
    8' Cor Anglais      68       16' First Diapason    32 wood
    8' Clarinet         68       16' Second Diapason   32 metal *
    8' Vox Humana       68       16' Bourdon           32
       Tremulant                 16' Violone           32
       Sub                       16' Lieblich Bourdon  SW
       Super                     16' Dulciana          CH
       Chimes           25   10 2/3' Quint              7
                                  8' Flute             12
                                  8' Gedeckt            5
                                  8' Cello             12
                                 16' Trombone          32
                                  8' Tromba            12

[Received online from Jeff Scofield  December 4, 2010]