2012-05-24 - Identified through online information from Ron Yeater. -- Exceedingly poor rebuild by a fortunately nameless worker! -Database Manager
stop list taken from console c.1994 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
HOSPITAL SISTERS OF THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
Chapel
unknown builder, 1970s
rebuild of 1951 Casavant
GREAT (in former Ch. chamber, misc. non-Casavant chests, etc.)
8 Open Diapason *
8 Nighthorn (Casavant Sw. Stopped Diapason?)
4 Principal (Casavant Gt.?)
2 Octave (Casavant Gt.?)
III Mixture *
SWELL
16 Gedeckt
8 Geigen Principal
8 Viola di Gamba
8 Viola Celeste
8 Melodia *
4 Octave Geigen
4 Flauto Traverso
2 Fifteenth *
8 Oboe
Tremulant
CHOIR (on former Great chest)
8 Gemshorn
8 Rohrflote
4 Nason Flute *
2 2/3 Twelfth
2 Piccolo (Casavant Sw?)
1 3/5 Tierce * (1-32 new unit chest, rest on old 8" Diapason chest)
8 Trumpet
Tremulant
PEDAL
32 Cornet (wired)
32 Resultant (wired)
16 Principal (12 pipes)
16 Bourdon (32 pipes)
16 Gedeckt (Sw)
8 Octave (former Gt, offset chest)
8 Flute (12 pipes)
4 Nighthorn (Gt)
4 Octave (Gt)
16 Trombone (12 pipes, Ch)
* miscellaneous used pipes
Wicks sent me to examine this organ in 1994, in order to propose a rebuild. The convent chose Casavant instead.
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