Better Pipe Organ Database

Unknown Builder (1959)

Newtonbrook United Church: Sanctuary
53 Cummer Ave.
Toronto, ON, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
36 stops
20 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)
Has crescendo
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

2011-10-08 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Originally installed in the Theatre of the Hotel Nova Scotian, Halifax, in 1930, with an Aeolian Duo-Art Cabinet; moved to Newtonbrook in 1959; 11 stops (18 ranks) built by Casavant in 1976 and installed by Alan T. Jackson. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

     Toronto, Ontario
     Newtonbrook United Church

     Casavant   Op. 1370   1976   /17

     Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
     St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
     _________________________________________________________
    
     Contracted with Alan Jackson for the church

     GREAT
  8' Principal  61
  4' Oktave     61
  2' Oktave     61
III  Mixtur    183  (to go on Clarinet space)

     SWELL
III  Scharf    183  (to go on Vox Humana space)
  8' Trompete       (existing Cornopean 8' revoice)

     ANTIPHONAL
  8' Gedackt    56
  4' Prinzipal  56
III  Mixtur    168

     Blower for Antiphonal and oak covering for exposed chest

     PEDAL
  8' Prinzipal  32
  4' Oktave     32
 16' Fagott     32  (cylindrical)

    [Received online from Jeff Scofield  October 9, 2011]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#48855†* - Casavant Brothers, Ltd. Opus 1370 (1930)