Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2101 (1952)

St. Francis Home for Boys
Linwood and Fenkel
Detroit, MI

Images

2011-05-13 - Building burning (Photograph by Operation Pedro Pan Group Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1921 - Building exterior (Photograph by Operation Pedro Pan Group Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1952 - Chapel interior (Photograph by Operation Pedro Pan Group Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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 toe pistons

Notes

2011-02-14 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2020-06-24 - The Home closed in 1992; the facility was used by other programs until a fire in May 2011; it was demolished in the Fall of 2012. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

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

   Detroit, Michigan
   St. Francis Home for Boys

   Casavant   Op. 2101   1952   2/8

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

   GREAT (enclosed)       SWELL                     PEDAL *
8' Open Diapason 68    8' Rohr Flute      68    16' Bourdon 32
8' Dulciana      68    8' Salicional      68
4' Principal     68    4' Flauto Traverso 68     *  encl w/GT
   Super               8' Oboe            68
   Chimes        pf       Tremulant
                          Sub
                          Super

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield  February 14, 2011]