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JL Weiler, Inc. (2017)

St. Paul of the Cross Roman Catholic Church
320 S. Washington Avenue
Park Ridge, IL

Images

Unknown - Church interior to gallery and facade pipes (Photograph courtesy of Casavant Frères/Database Manager)

2017 ca. - Organ case/facade in the rear gallery (Casavant Freres/Jim Stettner)

Date unknown - Organ case/facade in the rear gallery (Unknown photographer/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
29 stops
39 registers
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 thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2015-08-10 - Originally installed in Sackville United Church, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Church closed. The organ was removed before the building was razed in September 2015. In 2016, J.L. Weiler, Inc., and Casavant restored the organ for installation in St. Paul of the Cross R.C. Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed Specification Source: From Jeffery L. Weiler Date not recorded

Park Ridge, Illinois
St. Paul of the Cross Roman Catholic Church

Casavant Frères Ltée   Opus 1279   1928
Casavant Frères Ltée   Opus 2543   1959
Jeffery L. Weiler & Associates, 2017 - Moving & Reinstallation
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GREAT ORGAN                               SWELL ORGAN (Expressive)
  16'    Lieblich Bourdon       68          8'     Open Diapason          68
  8'     Open Diapason          68          8'     Stopped Flute          68
  8'     Doppel Flute           68          8'     Viola di Gamba         68
  8'     Gemshorn               68          8'     Voix Céleste (TC)      56
  4'     Principal              68          8'     Aeoline                68
  4'     Harmonic Flute         68                 Blank stop knob
  2 2/3' Twelfth                61 *        4'     Traverse Flute         68
  2'     Fifteenth              61          III    Mixture III           204
  1 3/5' Tierce (TC)            49 *        16'    Contra Fagotto         68
  8'     Tromba                 61 *        8'     Cornopean              68
                                            8'     Oboe                   68
  Great 16'                                 8'     Vox Humana             68
  Great 4'                                         Tremulant
  
CHOIR ORGAN                                 Swell 16'
  8'     Geigen Principal       68          Swell 4'
  8'     Melodia                68
  8'     Dulciana               68        PEDAL ORGAN
  4'     Wald Flute             68          16'    Open Diapason          32 +
  8'     Clarinet               68          16'    Bourdon                32 ^
  16'    Trombone         (Gt)  -- *        16'    Gedeckt          (Gt)  --
  8'     Tromba           (Gt)  -- *        8'     Octave                 12 +
  4'     Clarion          (Gt)  -- *        8'     Stopped Diapason       12 ^
         Tremulant                          16'    Trombone         (Gt)  12 *
                                            16'    Fagotto          (Sw)  --
  Choir 16'                                 8'     Tromba           (Gt)  -- *
  Choir 4'                                  4'     Clarion          (Gt)  -- *

       *  Retained and revoiced from previous Casavant organ, Op. 1242

          COMBINATION ACTION (Capture)              COUPLERS
          Swell     5     (thumb)                   Great to Pedal      8  4
          Great     5     (thumb)                   Swell to Pedal      8  4
          Choir     5     (thumb)                   Choir to Pedal      8  4
          Pedal     5     (thumb)                   Swell to Great  16  8  4
          General   5     (toe)                     Choir to Great  16  8  4
          General Cancel  (thumb)                   Swell to Choir  16  8  4
          Adjuster        (thumb)

          REVERSIBLES                               BALANCED PEDALS
          Great to Pedal  (thumb & toe)             Swell Expression
          Swell to Pedal  (thumb)                   Choir Expression
          Choir to Pedal  (thumb)                   Crescendo
          Swell to Great  (thumb)
          Choir to Great  (thumb)
          Swell to Choir  (thumb)
          Full Organ      (toe)

NOTES
Originally in Sackville United Church, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada


[Received from Steven E. Lawson  2017-03-29]

Documents

(2017-04-27) Casavant pipe organ from former Sackville United Church finds new home History of relocated Casavant organ with photo -Jim Stettner

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