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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 766 (1918)

St. Patrick's Catholic Church: Church
2267 Brunswick Street
Halifax, NS, CA

Images

2012-04-09 - Organ Case (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

2012-04-09 - Organ Case Detail (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

2012-04-09 - Keydesk (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

2012-04-09 - Keydesk - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

2012-04-09 - Keydesk - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

2012-04-09 - Keydesk - Builder's Nameplate (Photograph by Daniel Hopkins/Database Manager)

1980-04-05 - Organ Façade in Rear Gallery (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

1980-04-05 - Nave and Altar (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

1955-05-04 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

1955-05-04 - Console and Unidentified Organist (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
35 stops
35 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped 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)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. Rebuild of Op. 91. -Database Manager

2011-10-03 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- This was a rebuild with new console and electrification of 1898 Casavant Op. 91 that was damaged with the church by the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917. -Database Manager

2014-11-22 - Updated through online information from Hugh Creighton. -- Choir was originally unenclosed. This division was enclosed in 1917 renovation -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Halifax, Nova Scotia
       St. Patrick's R. C. Church

       Casavant   Op. 766   3/39   1918

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

       This was a rebuild of 1898 Casavant Op. 91 that was
       damaged by the December 1917 Halifax Harbor explosion.

       GREAT                            SWELL
   16' Double Open Diapason 61      16' Bourdon          61
    8' Open Diapason        61       8' Open Diapason    61
    8' Harmonic Flute       49 a     8' Stopped Diapason 61
    8' Stopped Diapason     61       8' Viola di Gamba   61
    8' Gamba                61       8' Gemshorn         61
    4' Principal            61       8' Voix Celeste     49
    4' Harmonic Flute       61       4' Flute Traverse   61
2 2/3' Twelfth              61       2' Flautino         61
    2' Fifteenth            61     III  Mixture         183
  III  Mixture             183       8' Cornopean        61
    8' Trumpet              61 b     8' Oboe & Bassoon   61
                                     8' Vox Humana       61
       CHOIR
    8' Violin Principal     61          PEDAL
    8' Melodia              61      16' Open Diapason    30
    8' Gedact [sic]         61      16' Bourdon          30
    8' Dulciana             61       8' Bass Flute       30
    4' Dolce Flute          61       8' Violoncello      30
    2' Piccolo              61      16' Trombone         30
    8' Clarinet             61
    
    a  1-12 Stopped Diapason
    b  harmonic trebles

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield October 12, 2011]

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