Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 1564 (1937)

Cathedral Church of the Redeemer
604 First Street, SE
Calgary, AB, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
29 stops
33 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 thumb pistons

Notes

2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. The cost was $ 5,450.00. -Database Manager

2020-01-03 - Installed as 2/24 tubular-pneumatic Casavant Op. 249 in 1906; Op. 1564 was for a rebuild as electro-pneumatic, new console and tonal changes; renovation and additions in 1955; the cathedral website says: In 2002, the Calgary Universal Foundation for the Organ generously provided funds for the complete restoration of the instrument, including the replacement of the electro-pneumatic combination system with a solid state switching system and solid state logic combination system of 128 levels of memory. The present instrument consists of 39 stops over three manuals and pedal. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded

     Calgary, Alberta
     Cathedral Church of the Redeemer

     Casavant   Op. 249   1906   2/24
     Casavant   Op. 1564  1937   3/31
     _________________________________________________

     GREAT                         SWELL

 16' Dbl Open Diapason  68     16' Lieblich Bourdon 68 *
  8' 1st Open Diapason  68      8' Open Diapason    68
  8' 2nd Open Diapason  68 *    8' Stopped Diapason 68
  8' Hohl Flute         68 *    8' Viola da Gamba   68
  8' Gemshorn           68 *    8' Voix Celeste     56
  4' Principal          68      4' Violina          68
  4' Harmonic Flute     68      4' Flauto Traverso  68
  2' Fifteenth          61      2' Piccolo          61
III  Mixture           204      8' Cornopean        68
  8' Trumpet            68      8' Oboe & Bassoon   68
     Sub                           Tremulant
     Super                         Sub
                                   Super
     CHOIR
                                   PEDAL
  8' Melodia            68
  8' Viol d'Orchestre   68 *   16' Open Diapason    32
  8' Dulciana           68     16' Bourdon          32
  4' Lieblich Flute     68 *   16' Echo Bourdon     SW *
  8' Clarinet           68      8' Octave           12 *
  8' Orchestral Oboe    68 *    8' Violoncello      32
     Tremulant                  8' Stopped Flute    12 *
     Sub                       16' Trombone      GT 12 *
     Super

  *  new stops

       [Received from Jeff Scofield January 3, 2020]

Websites

Cathedral Website - Contains details of both Cathedral Organs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)