Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Opus 843 (1920)

Calvary Baptist Church: Sanctuary
5 Beech St.
North Sydney, NS, CA

Images

1920-10-21 - Chancel and Pipe Facade (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
2 manuals
14 stops
13 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
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: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

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

2011-10-22 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Installed as 2/11 tubular-pneumatic in 1920; in 1965, Casavant supplied a new Pedal 16' Bourdon 30 pipes via G. R. Ledoux; organ electrified by G. R. Ledoux possibly in 1976, at which time Casavant supplied a new console, a replacement Swell Flute 4' 65 pipes and upperwork for the Great, as well as miscellaneous parts; the 1976 pipe were factory-revoiced in 2003 via Maritime Pipe Organ Builders, Moncton NB, and other parts were supplied. -Database Manager

2011-11-09 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

     North Sydney, Nova Scotia
     Calvary Baptist Church

     Casavant   Op. 843   1920/1976   2/15

     Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
     St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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     GREAT                    SWELL                         PEDAL
  8' Open Diapason 65      8' Open Diapason    58 c     16' Bourdon     30
  8' Melodia       65      8' Stopped Diapason 65       16' Echo Bourdon d 
  8' Dulciana      53 a    8' Aeoline          65
  4' Principal     65      8' Voix Celeste     53
  2' Fifteenth     61 b    4' Harmonic Flute   65
III  Mixture      183 b    8' Oboe             65     d   from 16' Bourdon
     Super                    Sub
                              Super
  a  1-12 from Melodia
  b  added 1976            c  1-7 Stopped Diapason   

            [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 24, 2011]