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Casavant Opus 1740 (1944)

Images

2021-05-13 - Church exterior (Photograph by Church Facebook, by Ben Sagle, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-05-03 - Church interior to front (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2021-04-04 - Church interior to rear and organ (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-03-22 - Balcony, console and organ case (Photograph by Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

• Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
• Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
• 4 manuals
• 47 stops
• 52 registers
• 5 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: Computerized/Digital
• Has combination thumb pistons
• Has combination toe pistons
• Has coupler thumb pistons
• Has coupler toe pistons
• Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-09-08 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2017-02-26 - Updated by Paul A. Walrath, who has heard or played the organ.<br>The original organ was built by Woodstock Organ Company in 1915. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1944 by Casavant Frères with Healy Willan as consultant. The Trompette and Great Mixture were added in 1992. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Original document from Paul A. Walrath. Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives 2017-02-18

       Kitchener, Ontario
       St. Matthews Lutheran Church

       Casavant   Op. 1740   1944   4/48
       ______________________________________________________

       GREAT                            SWELL

   16' Dbl Open Diapason 49 a       16' Bourdon            68
    8' Open Diapason I   61          8' Open Diapason      68
    8' Open Diapason II  61          8' Stopped Diapason   68
    8' Hohlflöte         61 *        8' Viola da Gamba     68
    8' Salicional        61 *        8' Voix Celeste       61
    4' Principal         61          8' Aeoline            68
    4' Harmonic Flute    61          4' Gemshorn           68 *
2 2/3' Twelfth           61 *        4' Traverse Flute     68
    2' Fifteenth         61          2' Piccolo            61
   IV  Mixture          244 b      III  Cornet  12-15-17  183 *
    8' Tromba            CH c        8' Cornopean          68
       Chimes            EC          8' Oboe               68
                                        Tremulant
       ECHO                             Sub
                                        Super
    8' Viola             68 *           Chimes             EC
    8' Rohrflöte         68 *
    8' Spitzflöte        68 *           CHOIR
    8' Flute Céleste     68 *
    4' Violina           68 *       16' Double Dulciana    12 *
    8' Vox Humana        68          8' Violin Diapason    68 *
       Tremulant                     8' Melodia            68
       Sub                           8' Dulciana           68
       Super                         8' Unda Maris         61 * m
   16' Pedal Bourdon     32 *        4' Dolce Flute        68 * m
                                 2 2/3' Nazard             61 * m 
       PEDAL                         2' Flautino           61 * m 
                                 1 3/5' Tierce             61 * m
   32' Sub Bass          12 d        V  Collective Mixture -- 
   16' Open Diapason     32          8' Clarinet           68
   16' Bourdon           32             Tremulant
   16' Violone           32 *        8' Tromba             68 *
   16' Gedeckt           SW             Sub
   16' Dulciana          CH             Super
    8' Octave            12             Chimes             EC
    8' Flute             12
    8' Cello             12 *
    4' Octave            12
   16' Trombone          12 CH
    8' Tromba            CH     

    a  1-12 from Pedal Bourdon 16
    b  added 1991
    c  replaced by new Trompette 61 pipes in 1991
    d  indepedent quints with Open Diapason
    m  these stops comprise the Collective Mixture
    *  added in 1944 rebuild

             [Received from Jeff Scofield May 22, 2017]

Documents

• Write-up in THE DIAPASON August 1944 Stoplist and commentary -Jeff Scofield

Websites

• Église luthérienne St. Matthew\'s Lutheran Church - Description, stoplist, one photograph (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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