Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2343 (1956)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
196 St. George St.
Toronto, ON, CA

Images

2024-05-08 - Console position in center of auditorium and organ screen above platform (Rob Landry/Rob Landry)

2024-05-08 - Console (Rob Landry/Rob Landry)

2024-05-08 - Builder's nameplate (Rob Landry/Rob Landry)

2024-05-08 - Building exterior (Rob Landry/Rob Landry)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
3 manuals
43 stops
56 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs
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 tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-10-08 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives

       Toronto, Ontario
       First Church of Christ, Scientist

       Casavant   Op. 2343   1956   3/54
       ___________________________________________________

       GREAT                          CHOIR

   16' Quintaton         61        8' Viola             68
    8' Principal         61        8' Cor de Nuit       68
    8' Bourdon           61        8' Spitz Flute       68
    8' Erzähler          61        8' Flute Celeste     61
    4' Octave            61        4' Gemshorn          68
    4' Chimney Flute     61        4' Koppelflöte       68
2 2/3' Octave Quinte     61    2 2/3' Nazard            61
    2' Super Octave      61        2' Blockflöte        61
   IV  Fourniture     a 244    1 3/5' Tierce            61
  III  Cymbal         b 183    1 1/3' Larigot           61
       Unison Off                  1' Sifflöte          61
       Super                       8' Clarinet          68
    8' Harmonic Trumpet  CH           Tremulant
       Chimes            CH        8' Harmonic Trumpet  68
                                      Sub
       SWELL                          Unison Off
                                      Super
   16' Flute Conique     68           Chimes            20
    8' Geigen Principal  68           Harp              49
    8' Rohrflöte         68
    8' Salicional        68           PEDAL
    8' Voix Celeste      68
    4' Geigen Octave     68       16' Contrebasse       32
    4' Flute Couverte    68       16' Subbass           32
2 2/3' Spitz Quint       61       16' Quintaton         GT
    2' Fifteenth         61       16' Flute Conique     SW
   IV  Plein Jeu      c 244       16' Cor de Nuit    CH 12
   16' Contra Fagotto    68   10 2/3' Gemshorn Quint    32
    8' Trompette         68        8' Spitz Principal   32
    8' Hautbois          68        8' Cello             32
    4' Clarion           68        8' Bass Flute        12
       Tremulant                   8' Cor de Nuit       CH
       Sub                     5 1/3' Octave Quint      12
       Unison Off                  4' Choralbass     d  --
       Super                       4' Cor de Nuit       CH
       Chimes            CH       IV  Mixture        e 128
                                  16' Posaune           32
    a  19-22-26-29                16' Fagotto           SW
    b  29-33-36                    8' Trumpet           12
    c  19-22-26-29                 4' Clarion           12
    d  from Mixture                   Chimes            CH
    e  15-17-19-22

          [Received from Jeff Scofield August 22, 2020]