Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 1151 (1926)

Westminster Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
114 Temperance Street
New Glasgow, NS, CA

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

Images

Unknown - Church exterior (postcard, courtesy of garth macphee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Console, 1985. (Photograph by garth macphee/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church interior, 1950s. (Photograph by walter tucker/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

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

Notes

2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. The cost was $7,600.00. -Database Manager

2011-10-17 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 6-stop Echo organ prepared-for; destroyed by fire January 8, 1986. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

     New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
     Westminster Presbyterian Church

     Casavant   Op. 1151   1926   3/31

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

     This was a rebuild of and new console for Casavant Op. 339 (1908)

     GREAT                        SWELL
  8' Open Diapason 1 73 n     16' Gedeckt           73
  8' Open Diapason 2 73        8' Open Diapason     73
  8' Salicional      73        8' Stopped Diapason  73
  8' Doppelflöte     73        8' Viola di Gamba    73 r
  4' Principal       73        8' Voix Céleste      61 r
  4' Harmonic Flute  73        8' Dolcissimo        73
  2' Fifteenth       61        4' Harmonic Flute    73
III  Mixture        219        2' Piccolo           61
  8' Trumpet         73 r      8' Cornopean         73 r
     Sub                       8' Oboe              73 r
     Unison Off                8' Vox Humana        73 r
     Super                        Tremulant
     Chimes          SW           Sub
                                  Unison Off
     ECHO (prep)                  Super
  8' Rohrflöte                    Chimes            25 n
  8' Muted Viole
  8' Viole Celeste                CHOIR
  4' Gemshorn                  8' Geigen Principal  73 n
  8' Vox Humana                8' Viole d'Orchestre 73 n
     Tremulant                 8' Melodia           73
                               8' Dulciana          73
     ECHO PEDAL (prep)         4' Concert Flute     73
 16' Bourdon                   2' Flageolet         61
                                  Tremulant            n
     PEDAL                        Sub
 16' Open Diapason   32           Unison Off
 16' Bourdon         32           Super
 16' Gedeckt         SW           Chimes            SW
  8' Flute           12
  8' Bourdon         12        n  new
     Chimes          SW        r  revoiced

[Received online from Jeff Scofield   October 21, 2011]

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