Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1266 (1928)

St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church
313 Bunker Hill Street
Boston (Charlestown), MA

Images

2010 - Church exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Church interior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Console (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Organ facade in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2010 - Builder's nameplate and couplers (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
32 stops
30 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: 30 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

2010-12-06 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Charlestown, Massachusetts
       St. Francis de Sales R. C. Church

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

       GREAT                    SWELL
   16' Bourdon        65    16' Bourdon          65
    8' Open Diapason  65     8' Open Diapason    65
    8' Hohlflöte      65     8' Stopped Diapason 65
    8' Gemshorn       65     8' Viola di Gamba   65
    4' Principal      65     8' Voix Céleste  tc 53
2 2/3' Twelfth        65     4' Principal        65
    2' Fifteenth      61     4' Flûte Douce      65
  III  Mixture       195     2' Piccolo          61
    8' Trumpet        65   III  Cornet          195
       Super                 8' Cornopean        65
                             8' Oboe             65
       CHOIR                 8' Vox Humana       65
    8' Open Diapason  65        Tremulant
    8' Gedeckt        65        Sub
    8' Dulciana       65        Unison Off
    4' Principal      65
    4' Flûte d'Amour  65        PEDAL
    2' Flautino       61    16' Open Diapason    30
    8' Clarinet       65    16' Bourdon          30
       Tremulant            16' Gedeckt          SW
       Sub                   8' Stopped Flute    12
       Super

[Received online from Jeff Scofield December 9, 2010]