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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1662 (1940)

Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit
1000 Ste. Anne Street
Detroit, MI

OHS convention: 1995

Images

2019-05-04 - Console (Photograph by Roman Lizak, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2019-05-04 - Church interior to gallery and organ case (Photograph by Roman Lizak, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Unknown - Organ case (Photograph by Matthias Reed/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ case and church Church interior, ca. 1986. (Photograph by Wayne T. Warren/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals
26 stops
24 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Rebuild of 1887 Granville Wood & Son tracker, using case and pipework, with new EP chests and additional pipework. -Database Manager

2010-06-14 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- This was a rebuild with tonal changes to the 1887 Granville Wood & Son instrument; it was to be restored ca. 2000 by John D. Lyon of Eastpointe, MI, and Wayne T. Warren of Apollo Beach, FL - the latter the former organist of the church. -Database Manager

2016-12-05 - Updated through online information from Matthias Reed. <br>Blower motor dead. -Database Manager

2017-11-24 - Updated by Matthias Reed, who has heard or played the organ.<br> Organ has since been repaired. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       Detroit, Michigan
       Ste. Anne of Detroit R.C. Church

       Casavant   Op. 1662   1940   2/26

       Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
       St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
       _______________________________________________

       * new stops

       GREAT                      SWELL
    8' Open Diapason  65      16' Bourdon           65
    8' Melodia        65       8' Open Diapason     65
    8' Gamba          65       8' Salicional        65
    8' Dulciana       65       8' Stopped Diapason  65
    8' Gedeckt        65       8' Viola da Gamba    65 *
    4' Octave         65       8' Voix Celeste   GG 58 *
    4' Flûte d'Amour  65       4' Fugara            65
2 2/3' Twelfth        61       4' Harmonic Flute    65
    2' Fifteenth      61       2' Piccolo           61
    8' Trumpet        65 *   III  Mixture          183
       Sub                     8' Oboe              65 *
       Super                   8' Vox Humana        65 *
       Chimes         SW          Tremulant
       Tower Chimes   pf          Sub
                                  Super
       PEDAL                      Chimes            25
   16' Open Diapason  32
   16' Bourdon        32
   16' Gedeckt        SW
    8' Octave         12 *

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 14, 2010.]

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