Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1035 (1924)

St. Agnes [later Martyrs of Uganda] Roman Catholic Church
7601 Rosa Parks Boulevard
Detroit, MI

OHS convention: 1995

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

Images

1924-11-01 - Nave, Gallery, and Pipe Facades (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
22 stops
20 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - The church closed June 1989 and merged with St. Theresa Church to become Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church, using the St. Agnes building; it closed in 2006 and the building was abandoned. -Database Manager

2008-10-26 - Updated through on-line information from Helderop Pipe Organs. -- We are currently storing the pipe work with the intent of building new mechanisms. -Database Manager

2009-04-30 - Updated through on-line information from Ray Ahrens. -- Church has been abandoned; console, lead tubing, most facade pipes have been destroyed/vandalized; case and framing are unstable, chests and most rack boards are basically intact. -Database Manager

2010-06-11 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Stoplist Source: Courtesy of the Casavant FrÃ¨res Archives Date not recorded

   Detroit, Michigan
   St. Agnes R. C. Church

   Casavant   Op. 1035   1924   2/20
   _____________________________________________________________________

   GREAT (*unencl)           SWELL                      PEDAL

8' Open Diapason  65 *   16' Bourdon          65    16' Open Diapason 30
8' Melodia        65      8' Oopen Diapason   65    16' Bourdon       30
8' Dulciana       65      8' Stopped Diapason 65    16' Gedeckt       SW
4' Principal      65      8' Viola di Gamba   65     8' Octave        12
4' Harmonic Flute 65      8' Aeoline          65
2' Fifteenth      61      8' Voix Céleste     49
8' Trumpet        65      4' Traverse Flute   65
8' Clarinet       65      2' Piccolo          61
   Super                  8' Oboe             65
                          8' Vox Humana       65
                             Tremulant
                             Sub
                             Super

              [Received from Jeff Scofield March 22, 2017]

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