Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 326 (1908)

St. Lawrence the Martyr
475 Mary St.
Hamilton, ON, CA

Images

May 2008 - Great and Pedal case with pump handle (some of the facade pipes speak and are very large scale) (Photograph by Colin Cousins /Colin Cousins )

2007-09-17 - Pedalboard, Composition pedals (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2007-09-17 - Stopknobs, left jamb (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2007-09-17 - Stopknobs, right jamb (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2007-09-17 - Chancel from organ gallery (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

2007-09-17 - Facade (Photograph by Bruce Cross/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
15 stops
15 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 Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination trundles

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Flat pedal board. -Database Manager

2008-10-20 - Updated through on-line information from Bruce Cross. -- bellows signal drawknob; manual winding intact; electric blower added -Database Manager

2021-05-06 - In 1976, the Swell Aeoline was tuned sharp to celeste with the Viola di Gamba. -Colin Cousins

2021-05-06 - About 1980, both Swell and Great bellows were re-leathered and the Great hand-pump action was restored. Bellows Signal drawknob has never operated. -Colin Cousins

Stoplist

Stoplist from Bruce Cross Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

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Stoplist from Jim Stettner Source: Stoplist taken from detailed console photos 2009-08-22

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
St. Lawrence the Martyr
Casavant, Opus 326, 1908

GREAT: (61 notes, non-expressive, Manual I)
   8'  Open Diapason
   8'  Melodia
   8'  Dulciana
   4'  Principal
   2'  Fifteenth

SWELL: (61 notes, expressive, Manual II)
   8'  Open Diapason
   8'  Stopped Diapason
   8'  Viola di Gamba
   8'  Aeoline
   4'  Harmonic Flute
   8'  Cornopean
   8'  Oboe & Bassoon
   8'  Vox Humana
       Tremulant
 
PEDAL: (30 notes, concave, non-expressive)
  16'  Ped. Bourdon
   8'  Ped. Flute

COUPLERS (Drawknob):
   Swell to Pedal
   Great to Pedal

   Swell Sub Oct. to Gt.  
   Swell to Great
   Swell Super Oct. to Gt.

   Great at Octaves [Super]

COMBINATIONS
   Six, fixed combinations via foot lever
 
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression          (bal.)
   Crescendo                 (bal.)
 
MISC. CONTROLS
   Bellows Signal

[Received via e-mail from James Stettner August 22, 2009]