Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 248 (1906)

Trinity United (Methodist) Church: Sanctuary
15 Matilda St.
Sydney, NS, CA

Images

Unknown - Organ case, chancel, choir loft and front of church, 1907. (Vintage postcard, courtesy of William Dunklin/Database Manager)

1975-08-09 - Chancel and Organ Façade (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

1975-08-09 - Organ Façade (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

1975-08-09 - Console (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

1975-08-09 - Console Detail - Nameplate (Photograph by Clyde Dollimount/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
13 stops
13 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
Pedal Type: Concave Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. The cost was $ 2,115.00. -Database Manager

2011-10-26 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Spencer hydraulic motor to work at 50 lbs. water pressure. -Database Manager

2013-01-30 - Updated through online information from S. Peter Fraser. -- The chests are definitely not slider chests, but ventil chests, operating on exhaust tubular pneumatic action. The wind is supplied by a 1 hp. Century electric motor. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Sydney, Nova Scotia
   The Methodist Church

   Casavant   Op. 248   1906   2/13

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

   GREAT                    SWELL                       PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 65      8' Oepn Diapason    51 b   16' Bourdon 30
8' Melodia       65      8' Stopped Diapason 58
8' Dulciana      53 a    8' Viola di Gamba   58
4' Octave        65      8' Voix Celeste     46
2' Fifteenth     65      4' Harmonic Flute   58
8' Trumpet       65      8' Oboe & Bassoon   58
   Octaves                  Tremulant

a  1-12 Melodia          b  1-7 Stopped Diapason

        [Received online from Jeff Scofield  November 5, 2011]