Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1285 (1928)

St. Giles United Church
85 Holton Avenue South
Hamilton, ON, CA

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

Images

2015-01-15 - Chancel and Organ Cases (Photograph by Karen Mathewson/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Console (Photograph by Karen Mathewson/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Left Drawknobs (Choir and Swell) (Photograph by Karen Mathewson/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Right Drawknobs (Great and Pedal) (Photograph by Karen Mathewson/Database Manager)

2015-01-15 - Console (Photograph by Karen Mathewson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
31 stops
34 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)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2019-04-16 - The congregation, once 1,000-strong, merged into Centenary United Church in 2013 with the combined congregation being renamed New Vision United Church; the organ was sold to an area organbuilder for parts. -Database Manager

2014-09-06 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Bruce Cross. Source: recorded by the tuner 2014

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Typed Specification Source: from document by Bruce Cross Date not recorded

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
St. Giles United Church

Casavant Frères Ltée   Opus 1285   1928               3 manuals, 31 stops, 35 ranks
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         GREAT ORGAN                             SWELL ORGAN
     16' Double Diapason           56        16' Bourdon                   68
           (1-12 fr. Ped 16' Bdn)             8' Open Diapason             68
      8' Open Diapason             68         8' Stopped Diapason  (wood)  68
      8' Violin Diapason           68         8' Salicional                68
      8' Doppel Flöte      (wood)  68         8' Æoline                    68
      8' Dolce                     68         8' Voix Celeste              68
      4' Harmonic Flute            68         4' Flauto Traverso           68
      4' Octave                    68         2' Piccolo                   61
      2' Fifteenth                 61            Dolce Cornet III         183
         Mixture III              183         8' Cornopean                 68
      8' Trumpet                   68         8' Oboe                      68
         Chimes (Ch)                          8' Vox Humana                68
                                                 Tremulant
         CHOIR ORGAN                             Chimes (Ch)
      8' Geigen Principal          68
      8' Melodia           (wood)  68            PEDAL ORGAN
      8' Viole d'Orchestre         68        16' Open Diapason             44
      8' Dulciana                  68        16' Bourdon                   44
      4' Wald Flöte                68        16' Gedeckt (Sw)              --
      8' Clarinet                  68         8' Octave (fr. Open Diap)    --
         Tremulant                            8' Stopped Flute (fr. Bdn)   --
         Chimes                              16' Trombone                  32
                                                 Chimes (Ch)


         ADJUSTABLE COMBINATIONS                 COUPLERS
         General     3   (toe)                   Great to Pedal      8  4
         Swell       5   (thumb)                 Swell to Pedal      8  4
         Great       4   (thumb)                 Choir to Pedal      8  4
         Choir       3   (thumb)                 Swell to Great  16  8  4
         Pedal       3   (thumb)                 Choir to Great  16  8  4
         General Cancel  (thumb)                 Great to Great         4
         Adjuster        (thumb)                 Swell to Swell  16     4
                                                 Swell to Choir  16  8  4
         REVERSIBLES                             Choir to Choir  16     4
         Swell to Pedal  (thumb)
         Great to Pedal  (thumb & toe)           BALANCED SWELL PEDALS
         Choir to Pedal  (thumb)                 Swell Expression
         Swell to Great  (thumb)                 Choir Expression
         Choir to Great  (thumb)                 Crescendo
         Swell to Choir  (thumb)
         Full Organ      (toe)


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2018-06-29]