Avondale United Church
194 Avondale Avenue
Stratford, ON, CA
Images
2013-04-15 - Chancel and Pipe Displays (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Pipe Displays and Trompette en Chamade (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Right Pipe Display (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
Unknown - Left Pipe Display (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Console (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Left Stop Jamb (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Right Stop Jamb (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Couplers (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Pedalboard, Toe Studs, and Expression Pedals (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
2013-04-15 - Chimes (Photograph by Bill Douglas/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 46 stops
- 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)
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2013-01-30 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
Identified by James R. Stettner, using information found in Walcker "Organ Digest No. 2" July 1968, pg. 7.
-- -Database Manager
2014-09-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The installation was done for Walcker by the Knoch Organ Co. of London, Ontario, Canada. -Database Manager
2016-01-01 - Updated through online information from Lori Millian, Music Director. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist copied from photos, and from info provided by the church Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Central United Church
WALCKER, Opus 4___, 1962 - Original Specifications
Knoch Organ Company, London, ONT., Canada - Installation
GREAT SWELL (Expressive)
16' Pommer 61 8' Italian Principal 61
8' Principal 61 8' Bleigedackt 61
8' Rohrflöte 61 8' Gamba 61
8' Gemshorn 61 8' Celeste (tc) 49
4' Octave 61 4' Prestant 61
4' Nachthorn 61 4' Koppelflöte 61
2-2/3' Quint 61 2' Octave 61
2' Principal 61 II-III Sesquialtera 171
IV Fourniture 244 V Plein Jeu 305
III Scharf 183 16' Dulcian 61
8' Trompette 61 8' Trompette 61
8' Trompette en Chamade 61 8' Hautbois 61
4' Rohrschalmay 61
Great Super Tremulant
Swell Super
PEDAL
16' Principal 32
16' Subbass 32 CHOIR (Expressive)
16' Quintaton 32 8' Holzgedackt 61
10 ⅔' Quintbass 32 8' Salicional 61
8' Octave 32 4' Rohrflöte 61
8' Bassflöte 32 2-2/3' Nazard 61
4' Choralbass 32 2' Hohlflöte 61
IV Hintersatz 128 1' Sifflöte 61
16' Posaune 32 III Cymbel 183
16' Fagotto 32 8' Krummhorn 61
8' Trumpet 32 Tremulant
4' Clarion 32 8' Trompette en Chamade --
COUPLERS FINGER PISTONS
Swell to Pedal [8] General 1 - 5
Great to Pedal [8] Swell 1 - 5
Choir to Pedal [8] Swell to Ped. (rev)
Swell to Great (rev)
Swell to Great Sub [16] Rel
Swell to Great [8] Great 1 - 5
Swell to Great Super [4] Great to Ped. (rev)
Choir to Great Sub [16] Rel
Choir to Great [8] Choir 1 - 4
Choir to Great Super [4] Choir to Ped. (rev)
Rel
Swell to Choir [8] Setter
Swell to Choir Super [4] Gen Can
PEDAL MOVEMENTS (l - r) TOE STUDS
Choir Expression (bal.) Gen.-Comb. 1 - 5
Swell Expression (bal.) Pedal-Comb. 1 - 4
Crescendo (bal.) Great to Ped. (rev)
Reeds Off (rev)
Full Organ (rev)
ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic VOICES: 45 STOPS: 46 RANKS: 61 PIPES: 3,262
NOTES
The organ is installed at the front with much of the pipework exposed to view. The
central section with the cross holds the Swell below and the Choir at the top. The
Great ranks are divided to either side of the Swell enclosure. And the Pedal is
behind the Great, and diatonically divided on both sides of the Swell enclosure.
The Great 8' Trompette en Chamade projects from the top of the stacked Choir/Swell
enclosure. Interestingly, most of the exposed Trumpet-style reed ranks are hooded.
Sources: Walcker opus list; photographs of the organ & pipes by parishioner Bill
Douglas in April 2013.
[Received from James R. Stettner 2015-04-16.]
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