Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2605 (1960)

St. Joseph's Seminary: SS Peter & Paul Chapel
201 Seminary Avenue
Dunwoodie
Yonkers, NY

Images

2020-01-09 - Chapel exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Seminary Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2015-04-03 - Chapel interior to gallery and organ case (Photograph from an archival source: Seminary Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2020-08-23 - Chapel interior to front (Photograph from an archival source: Seminary Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2010-01-17 - Chapel looking towards gallery (Photo courtesy of Casavant Frères/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional Without Cover
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
3 manuals
30 stops
34 registers
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

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

2004-10-30 - 2nd console added 1960's on north side of chancel by Delaware Organ Co., moved 1983 to south side. Enlarged 1996 by Casavant with new chancel console (ss controls). [Chapel also had 1895 Odell Op. 335 and 1942 Atlas Organ Co.] -Database Manager

2005-09-09 - Online update from Fr. George Hafemann -- The organ is located in the rear gallery, on a raised platform. It is entirely unenclosed, except for a four-rank Swell. The original console sits under and perpendicular to the organ. Casavant installed a new, all-electric, French-terrace style console at the front of the nave in 1996. This is the "primary" console, and is wired such that it locks out the gallery console when in use. Two stops were changed in 1996. The original Krummhorn in the Positiv was of rather small scale, and rarely stayed in tune. A new Krummhorn was installed and has proven to be much more useful and stable. In the Swell, the original 4' Oboe was moved up, and a new bottom octave installed, yielding an 8' stop. The chests and reservoirs were all releathered between Summer 1998 and Spring 1999. -Database Manager

2022-07-08 - The original Casavant console, located in the gallery with the organ, was rebuilt around 2006. Essentially, the innards of this beautiful, elegant console were gutted and replaced with cheap supply-house parts. -Fr. George Hafemann

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The American Organist</i> February 1962 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

     Yonkers, New York
     St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie
     Chapel of SS. Peter & Paul

     Casavant   Op. 2605   1961   3/41

     Except for the four Swell stops, the entire organ is unenclosed.

     GREAT                        POSITIV
 16' Quintaten 61              8' Salicional 61
  8' Principal 61              8' Gedeckt 61
  8' Bourdon 61                4' Principal 61
  4' Octave 61                 4' Spillflöte 61
  4' Rohrflöte 61              2' Blockflöte 61
 II  Rauschpfeife 122      1 1/3' Larigot 61
 IV  Mixture 244             III  Cymbel 183
  8' Trumpet 61 (hooded)       8' Krummhorn 61

     SWELL (enclosed)             PEDAL
  8' Gemshorn 61              16' Principal 32
  8' Gemshorn Celeste 61      16' Subbass 32
  4' Nachthorn 61             16' Quintaten GT
  4' Oboe 61 **                8' Octave 32
     Tremulant                 8' Flute 12
                               4' Choralbass 32
     RECIT                     4' Flute 12
  8' Rohrflöte 61             IV  Mixture 128
  4' Spitzflöte 61            16' Bass Trumpet 32
  2' Principal 61              4' Oboe SW
III  Cornet 183

 **  Changed to 8' pitch in 1996

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield January 21, 2010.]