Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 163 (1902)

Robie St. Methodist Church: Sanctuary
Halifax, NS, CA

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

Images

1902-04-23 - Chancel, Pipe Facade, and Keydesk (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
12 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 58 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. The cost was $ 1,725.00. -Database Manager

2011-10-08 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Casavant installed a new Open Diapason 8' in 1928. -Database Manager

2014-06-08 - Updated through online information from john montgomerie. -Database Manager

2014-08-06 - Updated through online information from James Craig Henderson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Halifax, Nova Scotia
   Robie Street Methodist Church

   Casavant   Op. 163   1902   2/12

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

   GREAT                     SWELL                             PEDAL
8' Open Diapason   58     8' Horn Principal          58    16' Bourdon 30
8' Melodia  Bass      *   8' Stopped Diapason Treble 58 *
8' Melodia  Treble 58 *   8' Stopped Diapason Bass      *
8' Dulciana        58     8' Viola di Gamba          58
4' Principal       58     8' Voix Céleste            46
2' Piccolo         58     4' Traverse Flute          58
                          8' Oboe                    58
   Bellows Signal            Tremulant         

*  Bass and Treble share the same knob

   Remarks January 3, 1951:  In 1928, a new Open Diapason 1-58 was added
   to the Great.

           [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 9, 2011]