Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 532 (1913)

Fort Massey United Church: Sanctuary
5303 Tobin St.
Halifax, NS, CA

Images

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
32 stops
29 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2011-10-03 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- New console installed by Casavant in 1951 as Op. 2081. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Halifax, Nova Scotia
   Fort Massey Church

   Casavant   Op. 532   1913   3/31

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

   GREAT                        SWELL
8' Open Diapason     68     16' Bourdon          68
8' Violin Diapason   68      8' Open Diapason    68
8' Hohlflöte         68      8' Stopped Diapason 68
8' Dolce             68      8' Viola di Gamba   68
4' Octave            68      8' Voix Celeste     49
4' Harmonic Flute    68      8' Aeoline          68
2' Super Octave      61      4' Flauto Traverso  68
8' Trumpet           68      2' Flautino         61
   Super                   III  Dolce Cornet    204
                             8' Cornopean        68
   CHOIR                     8' Oboe             68
8' Melodia           68      8' Vox Humana       68
8' Viole d'Orchestre 68         Tremulant
8' Dulciana          68         Sub
4' Waldflöte         68         Super
2' Piccolo           61
8' Clarinet          68         PEDAL
   Tremulant                16' Open Diapason    30
   Sub                      16' Bourdon          30
   Super                    16' Gedeckt          SW
                             8' Octave           12
                             8' Stopped Flute    12
*  medium size              16' Trombone         30 *

[Received online from Jeff Scofield October 11, 2011]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#48811 - Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 2081 (1951)