St. Andrew and St. Paul Church, Presbyterian
3415 Redpath St.
Montréal, QC, CA
Images
2017-08-11 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-01-19 - Trompette-en-Chamade (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2016-07-25 - Console and church interior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2014-04-20 - Church interior (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2015-08-04 - Console (Photograph by Jonathan Oldengarm, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Movable Console
- 4 manuals
- 87 stops
- 96 registers
- 8 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: Computerized/Digital
- Has sequencer
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2021-02-25 - From the church website: The organ of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul was built in 1931 by the renowned Casavant Frères of Ste. Hyacinthe, as that firm’s opus #1457. It is one of the largest instruments on the island of Montreal, containing nearly 7,000 pipes. About 70% of the pipes are located in the chancel; the other pipes speak from the rear gallery. Only the Trompette en chamade (installed in 1992) is visible, mounted prominently below the Black Watch window.
The instrument was cleaned and overhauled by Casavant in 1976-77, and several stops and a new console were added by Caron, Gagnon, Baumgarten in 1992. The tonal work of these rebuilds lent the instrument a neo-baroque flavour, but was unfortunately of uneven technical and musical quality. The console was rebuilt by Casavant in 2001. A gradual tonal renovation of the organ has been ongoing since 2010, whose goal is to replace the 1970s and 1990s-era neo-classical stops with pipework of the early 20th century, of superior material and tonal quality. Like all of the Casavant instruments built between ca. 1890 and 1960, op. 1457 was conceived in the late-Romantic Anglo-American style, and remains a monumental essay in the genre. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
Montréal, Québec
Presbyterian Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul
Casavant Op. 1457 1932 4/95
Caron, Gagnon, Baumgarten 1992 4/108
Casavant Op. 1457 2001 4/110
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Specifications for Casavant's 2001 console rebuild
MAIN GREAT MAIN SWELL
32' Bourdon dp 16' Bourdon
16' Dbl Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason
8' Open Diapason 8' Hohl Flute
8' Violin Diapason 8' Gedeckt
8' Spitz Principal 8' Viola da Gamba
8' Rohrflöte 8' Voix céleste
4' Octave 8' Aeoline
4' Wald Flute 4' Octave
4' Spitz Principal 4' Flauto Traverso
2 2/3' Twelfth 4' Gambette
2' Fifteenth 2' Piccolo
V Cornet A10 pf II Sesquialtera
IV Fourniture 1 1/3' IV Mixture 2 2/3'
III Scharf 2/3' IV Cymbale 2/3' pf
8' Trumpet 32' Contra Fagotto dp
4' Clarion 16' Double Trumpet
Unison Off 16' Fagotto (ext) pf
8' Trompette-en-Chamade 8' Trumpet
MIDI 8' Oboe
8' Voix humaine
MAIN SOLO 4' Clarion
Tremulant
8' Stentorphone Sub
8' Flauto Mirabilis Unison Off
8' Viole d'Orchestre Super
8' Viole céleste MIDI
4' Fugara
16' Tuba Magna MAIN CHOIR
8' Tuba Mirabilis
8' French Horn 16' Contra Gamba
8' Orchestral Oboe 8' Open Diapason
4' Tuba Clarion 8' Melodia
Tremulant 8' Bourdon
Sub 8' Dulciana
Unison Off 8' Unda Maris
Super 4' Principal
8' Trompette-en-Chamade 4' Flute d'Amour
MIDI 2 2/3' Nazard
2' Flageolet
TOWER GREAT 1 3/5' Tierce
IV Plein Jeu 2'
8' Open Diapason 16' Bassoon
8' Doppel Flute 8' Clarinet
8' Salicional Tremulant
4' Principal Sub
2' Fifteenth Unison Off
III Plein Jeu Super
III Cymbale 8' Trompette-en-Chamade
8' Trumpet Chimes
Celesta
TOWER SWELL MIDI
8' Violin Diapason MAIN PEDAL
8' Stopped Flute
8' Gamba 32' Dbl Open Diapason pd
8' Voix céleste 32' Contra Bourdon pd
4' Principal 16' Open Diapason 32
4' Harmonic Flute 16' Principal 32
2' Piccolo 16' Bourdon 32
II Sesquialtera 16' Gedeckt SW
IV Mixture 16' Gamba CH
16' Basson 8' Principal (ext) pf
8' Oboe 8' Open Flute 32
4' Clarion pf 8' Stopped Flute 12
Tremulant 4' Choral Bass 32
Sub 4' Flute 12
Unison Off IV Mixture 2 2/3' 128
Super 32' Contra Trombone 32
32' Contra Fagotto dp
TOWER PEDAL 16' Trombone 12
16' Fagotto SW
32' Gedeckt pd 8' Trumpet 12
16' Open Diapason 32 4' Clarion 12
16' Bourdon 32 8' Trompette-en-Chamade
8' Cello 32 4' Clairon-en-Chamade
8' Stopped Flute 12 MIDI
16' Trombone 32
pd prepared for digital pf prepared for pipes
[Received from Jeff Scofield February 24, 2021]
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