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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2985 (1968)

Choate School: Chapel
333 Christian St.
Wallingford, CT

Images

1968 - Console and exposed pipes (Photograph by Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

1968 - Rear of chapel and organ case (Photograph by Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2009-06-06 - Chapel exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Detached Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
3 manuals
45 stops
45 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Computerized/Digital
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1974 -Database Manager

2006-03-04 - Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: Replaced E. M. Skinner Opus 502 (1924). -Database Manager

2007-03-03 - Updated through online information from Ralph Valentine. Rebuilt by Casavant, 2006 -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Wallingford, Connecticut
       Choate Rosemary Hall School

       Casavant   Op. 2985   1969   3/66

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

       GRAND ORGUE                       POSITIF
   16' Bourdon              56        8' Bourdon          56
    8' Montre               56        8' Salicional       56
    8' Flûte à cheminée     56        4' Prestant         56
    4' Prestant             56        4' Flûte à fuseau   56
    4' Flûte ouverte        56    2 2/3' Nasard           56
2 2/3' Quinte               56        2' Doublette        56
    2' Doublette            56        2' Quarte de nasard 56
    2' Flûte à bec          56    1 3/5' Tierce           56
    V  Cornet tc-37 notes  185    1 1/3' Larigot          56
   IV  Fourniture          224        V  Fourniture      280
   IV  Cymbale             224       16' Ranquette        56
    8' Trompette            56        8' Cromorne         56
    8' Trompette-en-chamade 56           Tremolo

       RÉCIT                             PÉDALE
    8' Flûte bouchée        56       16' Montre           32
    8' Viole de gambe       56       16' Soubasse         32
    8' Voix céleste      tc 44        8' Octave basse     32
    4' Flûte conique        56        8' Bourdon          32
    2' Flûte des bois       56        4' Octave           32
   II  Cornet FF-51 notes  102        4' Flûte            32
  III  Petite fourniture   168        V  Fourniture      160
    8' Hautbois             56       16' Bombarde         32 L/2
       Tremolo                       16' Basson           32 cylindrical
                                      8' Trompette        32
                                      4' Chalumeau        32

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield  December 8, 2010]

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