2014-04-01 - Church Interior (Photograph by John Overton/Database Manager)
2014-01-14 - Console (Photograph by John Overton/Database Manager)
2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. The cost was $11,500.00. -Database Manager
2011-10-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Originally installed in 1902 as 3/26 Casavant Op. 168; rebuilt and electrified in 1955 as Casavant Op. 2283, including a new console and replacement reed pipework. -Database Manager
2014-08-25 - Updated through online information from Martin Jones. -- Blower punctured, Many pipes missing as a result many ranks are useless , Source: John Overton: Music Director, Choir master, and Organist of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Yarmouth, NS -Database Manager
2014-09-20 - Updated through online information from John Overton. -- The original 1902 Casavant organ was electrified in 1955, specifically with an electro-pneumatic system/console, including combinations. The number of speaking pipes remained unchanged, though some pipes were slightly altered. <br>Since 1955:<ul><li> The blower has been moved from the cellar to its present place in the Great+Swell+Pedal Division to the left of the High Altar. Some damage seems to been done in the move.</li><li>The console was moved from the 1955 left-hand side to its present right-hand side behind the choir-stalls during chancel alterations in the 1990's.</li><li>The back case of the console was built in by the raised wood floor during the 90's alterations, making it very difficult to do repair work on the console.</li><li>During the 1980s and 1990s pipes were removed and/or exchanged.</li><li>During the latter part of the 20th century many pipes were damaged.</li><li>The past 14 years (2000-2014) some incomplete ranks have been disconnected, and more pipes have been removed and/or damaged/destroyed, and, some say, stolen.</li><li>The organ was inspected by Casavant at the turn of the millenium. A 4-stage Casavant tender to restore the organ to working playable condition (no expansion, no re-voicing etc) was declined by the Parish.</li><li>As of 2014 - effectively no real work has been done on the instrument for the past 10 years and the instrument has not been tuned for at least 7 years (given the state of the organ, tuning was not considered worth its cost.)</li><li>The organ blower makes so much wheezing noise and plays so unexpectedly 'on its own' that the instrument is longer reliable as a musical instrument. The blower is now (2014) in such a deteriorated state, that it is effectively now no longer reparable.</li></ul> -- Both the Swell and Choir manuals have full 61-note keys but G2-C3 lack any connection to sounding pipes. Top pedal notes F, F# and G lack connection to speaking stops. In reality, therefore, the Pedalboard has a 30-note compass. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Casavant Op. 2283 1955 3/26
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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GREAT SWELL
8' Open Diapason 65 16' Bourdon 58
8' Salicional 65 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Doppel Flute 65 8' Stopped Diapason 58
4' Principal 65 8' Viola da Gamba 58
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 8' Voix Celeste 46
2' Fifteenth 61 4' Harmonic Flute 58
8' Trumpet 65 n 2' Piccolo 58
Super III Cornet 174
8' Cornopean 58 n
CHOIR (unenclosed) 8' Oboe 58 n
8' Melodia 58 Tremulant
8' Dulciana 58 Sub
4' Flute d'Amour 58 Super
2' Piccolo 58
8' Clarinet 58 n PEDAL
Tremulant pf 16' Open Diapason 30
Sub 16' Bourdon 30
Super 8' Flute (Open Diap)12
8' Violoncello pf
n new pipework 8' Stopped Flute pf
4' Flute pf
4' Choralbass pf
The specification says the that Choir division is
unenclosed and the Choir expression pedal prepared for.
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