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Casavant Opus 1653 (1940)

Bishop's College School: St. Mark's Chapel
Lennoxville, QC, CA

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


Consoles

Main


Notes

2015-08-11 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2020-04-09 - The factory specification says: "Old pipes to be removed to St. Hyacinthe for cleaning, repairing and re-voicing; new basses to be made for the existing stops of short compass; a new low C pipe added to each stop to lower the pitch to International A-440, and new trebles supplied to all stops of 16, 8 and 4' pitches to extend the upper compass to 68 notes; replaced in 1959 by 2/29 Casavant Op. 2541 and relocated to Roxboro United Church, Roxboro, Quebec. -Database Manager


Stoplist

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

       Lennoxville, Québec
       Bishop's College
       St. Mark's Chapel

       Casavant   Op. 1653   1940   2/17
       ____________________________________________________________________________

       GREAT                     SWELL                        PEDAL

    8' Open Diapason 68      16' Lieblich Gedeckt 68 n    16' Major Bass       32 n
    8' Melodia       68       8' Geigen Principal 68      16' Bourdon          32
    8' Dulciana      68 a     8' Stopped Diapason 68      16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW n
    4' Principal     68       8' Viola da Gamba   68 a     8' Stopped Flute    SW n
2 2/3' Twelfth       61       8' Voix celeste     56
    2' Fifteenth     61       8' Aeoline          68 n
       Sub                    4' Harmonic Flute   68
       Super                  8' Cornopean        68 n
                              8' Oboe             68
                                 Tremulant
    a  new bass                  Sub
    n  new                       Super

                       [Received from Jeff Scofield March 7, 2020]

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