Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 1260 (1928)

Chalmers United Church [1914]
355 Cooper Street
Ottawa, ON, CA

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

Images

1943 - Chancel with grille behind choir seats (Photograph from an archival source: Dominion-Chalmers Church Archives, courtesy of Dr. Garth Bray, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)

before 1955 - Church Exterior, taken before the addition built in 1955 (Photograph from an archival source: Dominion-Chalmers Church Archives, courtesy of Dr. Garth Bray, submitted by The Zach/The Zach)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
4 manuals
55 stops
63 registers
5 divisions
Key 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 combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2016-12-06 - The Chalmers sanctuary sustained extensive smoke and water damage on Easter Sunday April 10, 1955, by a fire that destroyed the Sunday School building and hall; after Dominion United (Methodist) Church burned in 1961, the congregation merged in 1962 with Chalmers United (Presbyterian) Church to become Dominion-Chalmers United Church; Op. 1260 was relocated when it was replaced in 1964 by 4/95 Casavant Op. 2815. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Ottawa, Ontario
       Chalmers United Church

       Casavant   Op. 1260   1928   4/63
       ____________________________________________________

       GREAT                           CHOIR

   16' Dbl Open Diapason  73       16' Double Dulciana   73
    8' 1st Open Diapason  73        8' Open Diapason     73
    8' 3rd Open Diapason  73        8' Concert Flute     73
    8' Violin Diapason    73        8' Dulciana          73
    8' Doppelflöte        73        4' Harmonic Flute    73
    8' Flûte Harmonique   73        4' Violina           73
    8' Gemshorn           73    2 2/3' Nazard            73
    4' Octave             73        2' Flageolet         61
    4' Wald Flute         73        8' Clarinet          73
2 2/3' Twelfth            73           Tremulant
    2' Fifteenth          61           Sub
    V  Mixture           365           Super
   16' Double Trumpet     73           Chimes            SO
    8' Trumpet            73
    4' Clarion            73           SOLO
       Sub
       Super                        8' Stentorphone      73
       Chimes             SO        8' Grossflöte        73
                                    8' Cello             73
       SWELL                        8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
                                    8' Viole Céleste     73
   16' Bourdon            73        4' Orchestral Flute  73
    8' Open Diapason      73        4' Fugara            73
    8' Clarabella         73       16' Tuba Magna        73
    8' Stopped Diapason   73        8' Tuba Mirabilis    73
    8' Viola di Gamba     73        8' Orchestral Oboe   73
    8' Voix Céleste       73        4' Tuba Clarion      73
    8' Aeoline            73           Tremulant
    4' Principal          73           Sub
    4' Flauto Traverso    73           Super
    2' Piccolo            61           Chimes            25
    V  Cornet            365
   16' Double Trumpet     73           PEDAL
    8' Cornopean          73
    8' Oboe               73       32' Dbl Open Diapason 12
    8' Vox Humana         73       16' Open Diapason     32
    4' Clarion            73       16' Bourdon           32
       Tremulant                   16' Violone           32
       Sub                         16' Gedeckt           SW
       Super                        8' Flute (Open Dia)  12
       Chimes             SO        8' Bourdon           12
                                    8' Violoncello       12
                                    4' Flute (Open Dia)  12
                                   16' Trombone          32
                                    8' Trumpet           12
                                    4' Clarion           12
                                       Chimes            SO

           [Received from Jeff Scofield April 8, 2019]

Documents

(1928-01-01) Inaugural concert program -Jeff Scofield