Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 1685 (1941)

St. Joseph's Catholic Church
180 Wellington St. W.
Chatham, ON, CA

Images

2023-06-08 - Console (Photograph by Tate Pumfrey/Tate Pumfrey )

2018-03-30 - Church interior to front (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-03-30 - Church interior to gallery and organ case (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-03-30 - Organ case in gallery (Photograph by From church Facebook page, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
28 stops
32 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 coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-09-06 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2020-04-09 - This was a rebuild of the existing organ with tonal changes and a new console. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Chatham, Ontario
       St. Joseph's R. C. Church

       Casavant   Op. 1685   1941   3/30
       _________________________________________________

       GREAT                        SWELL

   16' Open Diapason    68      16' Lieblich Bourdon  68      
    8' Open Diapason    68       8' Violin Diapason   68 *
    8' Clarabella       68       8' Stopped Diapason  68
    8' Dolce            68       8' Viola da Gamba    68 *
    4' Principal        68       8' Voix Celeste      61
    4' Flute            68       4' Principal         68
2 2/3' Twelfth          61       4' Flute             68
    2' Fifteenth        61     III  Cornet 12-15-17  183
    8' Trumpet          68 *     8' Cornopean         68 *
       Super                     8' Oboe              68 *
                                    Tremulant
       CHOIR                        Sub
                                    Super
    8' Open Diapason    68
    8' Stopped Diapason 68          PEDAL
    8' Dulciana         68
    4' Principal        68      16' Open Diapason     32
    4' Flute            68      16' Stopped Diapason  GT *
    2' Flautino         61      16' Bourdon           32
    8' Clarinet         68 *    16' Lieblich Bourdon  SW *
       Tremulant                 8' Octave            12 *
       Sub                       8' Stopped FLute     12 *
       Super

    *  new

          [Received from Jeff Scofield March 9, 2020]