Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 3085 (1970)

Carnegie-Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

Images

Unknown - Organ case (Photograph by lawrencephelps.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
3 manuals
27 stops
37 registers
4 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons

Notes

2010-10-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- SSL combination action and new Kimber-Allen drawknob solenoids installed by Casavant in 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
       Carnegie Mellon University

       Casavant   Op. 3085   1970   3/37

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

       GREAT                      POSITIV
    8' Prinzipal    56         8' Gedackt        56
    8' Bordun       56         4' Spitzflöte     56
    4' Oktav        56         2' Prinzipal      56
    2' Blockflöte   56     1 1/3' Quintflöte     56
   IV  Mixtur      224       III  Zimbel        168
    8' Trompete     56         8' Krummhornregal 56
                                  Tremulant
       SWELL
    8' Salizional   56            PEDAL
    8' Rohrflöte    56        16' Subbass        32
    4' Prinzipal    56         8' Prinzipal      32
    4' Koppelflöte  56         4' Oktav          32
2 2/3' Nasat        56       III  Mixtur         96
    2' Gemshorn     56        16' Fagott   L/2   32
1 3/5' Terz         56         4' Schalmei       32
   IV  Scharf      224
    8' Oboe         56
       Tremulant

[Received online from Jeff Scofield November 1, 2010]