Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2165 (1953)

St-Esprit
750, 2e avenue
Québec, QC, CA

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

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
49 stops
57 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 tutti toe pistons

Notes

2011-11-04 - Identified through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2015-08-11 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2020-07-06 - The church closed and the organ was relocated in 2002 by Jean-François Mailhot to Eglise St-Fidèle, Québec QC, where it remains unaltered; St-Esprit was sold to Ecole de Cirque to Québec, a circus arts school. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded

       Limoilou, Québec
       Église Saint-Esprit

       Casavant   Op. 2165   1953   3/63

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

       GRAND ORGUE (3½")              CHORAL (3 3/4")
   16' Flûte Conique     68       16' Lieblich Bourdon   68
    8' Montre            68        8' Diapason           68
    8' Principal         68        8' Flûte Triangulaire 68
    8' Flûte Traversière 68        8' Flûte à Cheminée   68
    8' Bourdon           68        8' Salicional         68
    8' Spitzflöte        68        8' Quintaton          68
    4' Prestant          68        4' Octave             68
    4' Flûte d'Amour     68        4' Flûte douce        68
2 2/3' Quinte            61    2 2/3' Nazard             61
    2' Doublette         61        2' Flautino           61
    V  Fourniture       305    1 3/5' Tierce             61
       Sub                     1 1/3' Larigot            61
       Unison Off                  1' Sifflöte           61
       Super                       8' Cromorne           68
                                      Tremolo
       RÉCIT (3 3/4")                 Sub
   16' Quintaton         68           Unison off
    8' Principal         68           Super
    8' Flûte double      68
    8' Cor de Nuit       68           PÉDALE
    8' Viole de Gambe    68       16' Principal          32
    8' Voix Céleste      61       16' Soubasse           32
    4' Gemshorn          68       16' Violon             32
    4' Waldflöte         68       16' Dulciane           32
2 2/3' Quinte            61       16' Flûte Conique      GO
    2' Flageolet         61   10 2/3' Quinte             32
   IV  Cornet           244        8' Octave             12
   IV  Fourniture       244        8' Bourdon            12
  III  Cymbale          183        8' Violoncelle        12
   16' Contrebasson      68        4' Basse Chorale      12
    8' Trompette    6"   68      III  Mixture            96
    8' Hautbois          68       16' Bombarde           32
    4' Clairon      6"   68       16' Contrebasson       RE
       Tremolo                     8' Trompette          12
       Sub                         4' Clairon            12
       Unison Off
       Super

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  November 4, 2011]

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