Better Pipe Organ Database

Breckels & Matthews (1906)

St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church
477 Manning Avenue
Toronto, ON, CA

Images

Unknown - Console ((2013) Photograph by Andrew Adair/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals

Notes

2015-02-16 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on information from A film about Healy Wiliam called "Man of Music" by the National Film Board of Canada.. -- This was Healy Willan's church from 1921 until his passing in 1968. He referred to the organ as the "Old Girl." The console was moved to the rear gallery in 1931 which was the beginning of tonal changes and additions to the organ. But the original console remains to this day. -Database Manager

2023-07-21 - Around 1906 Breckels & Matthews built a pneumatic-action chancel organ of about 29 ranks. Acting on Willan’s request, in 1931 L.E. Morel electrified the action and moved the console to the gallery. Later came the addition of an English-built Tuba at 16ʹ–8ʹ–4ʹ, and Franklin Legge unified the Choir Flute to sound also at 4ʹ pitch. The Healey Willan Memorial Fund was established in 1971, and a rebuilding of the organ began that same year under the organist Giles Bryant. -- *2023 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Stoplist taken from the console 3 August 2015. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Church of St. Mary Magdalene

1906 Breckles and Matthews, rebuilt c.1970-80

GREAT

16 Double Open Diapason (extension of Open Diapason II, bottom octave from pedal metal)
8 Open Diapason I 61
8 Open Diapason II 61
8 Stopped Diapason 61
8 Gamba 61
4 Octave 61
4 Nason Flute 61 (actually an open metal spitzflute)
2 2/3 Twelfth 61
2 Fifteenth 61
IV Mixture 244
V Cornet 185 (from middle C, mounted)
8 Trumpet 61
4 Clarion 61

SWELL (enclosed)

16 Lieblich Bourdon 61
8 Stopped Diapason 61
8 Salicional 61
8 Viola da Gamba 61
8 Vox Angelica 49 (from tenor C, sharp)
4 Principal 61
4 Suabe Flute 61
2 2/3 Nazard 61
2 Octave 61
1 3/5 Tierce 49 (from tenor C)
IV Sharp Mixture 244
16 Bassoon 61 (half length)
8 Trumpet 61 
8 Hautboy 61
4 Shawm 61
Tremulant

CHOIR (enclosed)

8 Gedackt 61
8 Dulciana 61
8 Unda Maris 49 (from tenor C, flat)
4 Chimney Flute 61
2 Spire Principal 61
1 1/3 Larigot 61
III Cymbal 183
8 Cremona 61 (clarinet)
Tremulant
8 Tuba 61 (unenclosed)

PEDAL

32 Sub Bourdon (resultant)
16 Open Metal 32
16 Open Wood 32
16 Subbass 32
16 Lieblich Bourdon (from Swell)
8 Octave 32
8 Flute 32
4 Fifteenth 32
4 Recorder 32
IV Mixture 96
16 Ophicleide 32
16 Bassoon (from Swell)
8 Trumpet (from Great)
4 Clarion (from Great)

 

 [Received from Andrew Adair 2015-08-06.]