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Unknown Builder (1990's)

Binkley United Church: Sanctuary; front
1570 Main St. W.
Hamilton, ON, CA

Images

2021 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph from an archival source: Real estate listing, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Console: Swell & Percussion stops (Photograph from an archival source: Real estate listing, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Console: Great & Pedal stops (Photograph from an archival source: Real estate listing, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Console (Photograph from an archival source: Real estate listing, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2021 - Organ chamber in the chancel (Photograph from an archival source: Real estate listing, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

2010-01-30 - Church exterior (Photograph by Brian Kowalewicz, on Historic Hamilton, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
19 stops
27 registers
3 divisions
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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2021-01-27 - This organ was relocated here to Binkley United Church, Hamilton, Ontario from Morrison Street United Church in Niagara Falls, ONT in the early 1990's by an unknown builde or firm. It is now again for sale. -Jim Stettner

2021-05-19 - The church will close May 31, 2021. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist taken by Rodger Swinton, 1980s. 1980's

Hamilton, Ontario
Binkley United Church

Casavant Freres, Opus 1439, 1931
Unknown Builder, 1990's - moving and re-installation


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
8     Open Diapason         68               Swell to Pedal Unison
8     Hohl Flute            68               Swell to Pedal Super
8     Dulciana              68               Great to Pedal Unison
4     Octave                68               Great to Pedal Super
4     Flute d'Amour         68
2 2/3 Twelfth               61               Swell to Great Sub
2     Fifteenth             61               Swell to Great Unison
                                             Swell to Great Super
Great Sub
Great Super
                                             FINGER PISTONS
                                             Undocumented
SWELL (Expressive)
16    Bourdon               68
8     Open Diapason         68               TOE STUDS
8     Stopped Diapason      68               Undocumented
8     Viol da Gamba         68
8     Voix Celeste          68
8     Aeoline               68               PEDAL MOVEMENTS
4     Traverse Flute        68               Swell Expression          (bal.)
2     Piccolo               61               Choir Expression  [prep]  (bal.)
8     Cornopean             68               Crescendo                 (bal.)
8     Oboe                  68
8     Vox Humana            68
      Tremulant

Swell Sub
Swell Super

CHOIR 
Six-stop division prepared for
in console with blank drawknobs;
never installed, except for per-
cussion stops.

Chimes
Harp


PEDAL
16    Major Bass            32
16    Bourdon               32
16    Gedeckt         (Sw)  --
8     Octave                12
8     Stopped Flute         12



[Received from Andrew Henderson 2014-07-16.]

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