Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 1161 (1926)

St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral
200 Fourth Avenue West
Prince Rupert, BC, CA

Images

2021-03-02 - Organ keydesk and lower facade (Photograph from an archival source: Cathedral Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2022-08-10 - Chancel with organ on the right (Photograph from an archival source: Still capture from a Facebook page video, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021-12-23 - Cathedral exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Cathedral Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

ca. 1930's - Cathedral exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
8 stops
8 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)

Notes

2014-09-04 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. -Database Manager

2022-08-18 - The organ is installed at the front of the room on the right-hand side. There are gold-painted facades facing into both the chancel and the nave. The keydesk is attached on the chancel side. At the time of this entry, there has been no organist for 10 years. The Pedal 16' Bourdon presently does not turn-on. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

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

   Prince Rupert, British Columbia
   St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral

   Casavant   Op. 1161   1926   2/8
   ____________________________________________________________

    GREAT
8'  Open Diapason                65
8'  Melodia                      65
8'  Dulciana                     65

Super


    SWELL (Expressive)
8'  Violin Diapason              65
8'  Stopped Diapason             65
4'  Principal                    65
8'  Oboe                         65
    Tremulant

Sub
Super


    PEDAL
16' Bourdon                      30


    COUPLERS
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal

Swell to Great


    PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Swell Expression             (bal.)
Crescendo  (?)               (bal.)


[Received from Jeff Scofield March 30, 2019]