Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 2000-A (1985)

Boston University: Marsh Chapel
735 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA

Images

1990-06-28 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)

1985-08-23 - Chapel Interior, Chancel, and Pipe Display (Photograph courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
61 stops
48 registers
4 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)
Combination action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1900. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Rebuild of their instrument of 1950. -Database Manager

2005-06-14 - On-line update from Julien GIRARD -- Some changes have been made in 1995, and some may have been in 2004 (on 32' manual ?) -Database Manager

2010-12-15 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives

       Boston, Massachusetts
       Boston University
       Marsh Chapel

       Casavant   Op. 2000   1950   3/41
       Casavant   Op. 2000   1985   3/71
       __________________________________________________________

       GRAND ORGUE                       POSITIF

   32' Bourdon            -- a       16' Bourdon             61 b
   16' Flûte conique      61          8' Principal           61 n
    8' Montre             61 n        8' Bourdon             61 c
    8' Flûte harmonique   61 n        8' Gambe               61
    8' Flûte à cheminée   61 n        4' Octave              61 n
    8' Flûte conique      12          4' Flûte               61 n
    4' Prestant           61 n    2 2/3' Nazard              61 n
    4' Flûte              61 n        2' Quarte de nazard    61 n
    2' Doublette          61 n    1 3/5' Tierce              61 n
  III  Cornet            183 n    1 1/3' Larigot             61 n
II=IV  Grande fourniture 208 n       IV  Fourniture         244 
IV-VI  Fourniture        330 n      III  Cymbale            183 n
   16' Bombarde    L/2    61 n        8' Trompette           61
    8' Trompette          61 n        8' Cromorne            61
    4' Clairon            61 n           Tremblant

       RECIT                             PEDALE

   16' Dulciana           61         32' Bourdon             12 d
    8' Principal          61 n       16' Montre              32
    8' Cor de nuit        61         16' Flûte conique       GO
    8' Viole de gambe     61 n       16' Bourdon             PO
    8' Voix céleste       54 n       16' Dulciane            RE
    8' Dulciant           12          8' Octavebasse         32 n
    8' Unda maris         49 n        8' Bourdon             PO
    4' Octave             61 n        4' Octave              32 n
    4' Flûte octaviante   61 n        4' Bourdon             PO
2 2/3' Nazard             61 n       IV  Mixture            128 n
    2' Octavin            61 n       32' Contre bombarde L/2 12 e
1 3/5' Tierce             61 n       16' Bombade             32 e
   VI  Plein jeu         366 n       16' Clarinette          RE
   16' Clarinette         61          8' Trompette           12 e
    8' Trompette          61          4' Clairon             12 e
    8' Hautbois           61
    4' Clairon            61 n
       Tremblant
       Unison Off
       Super

    a  from Positif and Pédale
    b  existing pipes 1-24; new pipes 25-61
    c  existing pipes 1-7; new pipes 8-61
    d  existing 16 Open Diapason pipes lengthened and capped
    e  existing Aeolian-Skinner pipes and action
    n  new

              [Received from Jeff Scofield June 13, 2020]

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