Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1157 (1926)

Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church
59 Walnut Street
Fitchburg, MA

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

Images

2010-05-05 - Organ in gallery (Photograph by Lucy Dechene/Database Manager)

2010-05-05 - Church interior to rear and organ in gallery (Photograph by Lucy Dechene/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
13 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 65 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1995. -Database Manager

2005-08-23 - On-line update from Judith A. Ollikkala -- Restored 1985 tubular pneumatic by Czelusniak et Dugal Inc. Extant, good condition maintained by same Co. -Database Manager

2010-06-14 - Updated through online information from Lucy Dechene. -Database Manager

2010-12-06 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- Organ destroyed by fire ca. 1999; parish closed 2010. -Database Manager

2011-01-16 - Updated through online information from William F. Czelusniak. -- This organ NOT destroyed in fire, as read above - made urgent need for corrections, here. Church was closed by Diocese, July 31, 2010; organ in the process of being relocated and restored at St. Joseph's RC Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts by Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc., Northampton, Mass. -Database Manager

2014-05-22 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

   Fitchburg, Massachusetts
   Immaculate Conception R.C. Church

   Casavant   Op. 1157   1926   2/12

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

   GRAND ORGUE        RÉCIT                     PÉDALE
8' Montre    65    8' Principal        65   16' Bourdon 32
8' Mélodie   65    8' Bourdon          65    8' Bourdon 12
8' Dulciane  65    8' Viole de Gambe   65
  1-12 Mélodie)    8' Voix Céleste  tc 53
4' Prestant  65    4' Flûte Harmonique 65
8' Trompette 65    8' Hautbois         65
   Aiguë              Trémolo
                      Grave
                      Aiguë

  [Received online from Jeff Scofield  December 8, 2010]