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Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1873 (1947)

St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church
530 Elizabeth Street
Ann Arbor, MI

Images

Unknown - Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1914)/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
28 stops
32 registers
3 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 (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
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 toe pistons

Notes

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

2007-05-30 - Updated through on-line information from Timothy Tikker. -- Built by Pilcher, 1905; rebuilt by Casavant Freres in 1947 with new console, chests, winding, one additional rank (Vox Humana) and some extension pipes; tonally altered by Thomas Wood of Indianapolis in 1978, replacing some 2/3 of the original pipes; currently under renovation by Renaissance Pipe Organs of Ann Arbor. Organ is in twin cases to sides of rear gallery: Swell at organist's left, 18 facade pipes of Pedal 8' Octave; Great at organist's right, 12 facade pipes of Great 8' Principal (remaining facade pipes on both sides are dummies). NB: Address lsited is mailing address for church office. Church located on Kingsley street between Elizabth and State streets. -- Manuals have 68-note chests for super couplers; 61 notes on keyboards -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

    Ann Arbor, Michigan
    St. Thomas R.C. Church

    Casavant   Op. 1873   1947

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

    The contract included provisions for a new console, two
    manual chests, four pedal chests, two bass-note chests of
    12 notes each; chests for display pipes to take care of
    33 notes.
    
    GREAT                SWELL                 PEDAL
16' Open Diapason    16' Bourdon           16' Open Diapason
 8' Open Diapason     8' Violin Diapason   16' Bourdon
 8' Doppel Flute      8' Stopped Diapason  16' Violone       12 *
 8' Viola da Gamba    8' Salicional        16' Gedeckt       SW
 8' Dulciana          8' Voix Celeste       8' Octave        12 *
 4' Octave            8' Aeoline            8' Cello         
 4' Flute d'Amour     4' Violina            8' Stopped Flute 12 *
 2' Superoctave       4' Flute Harmonic     4' Flute         12 *
IV  Mixture           2' Piccolo               Chimes        GT
 8' Trumpet         III  Dolce Cornet
    Super             8' Cornopean
    Chimes            8' Oboe               *  added by Casavant
                      8' Vox Humana *
                         Tremulant
                         Sub
                         Super

   [Received online from Jeff Scofield  February 13, 2011]

Documents

(2008-10-05) The Re-inauguration Concert of the Pipe Organ at Saint Thomas the Apostle Church. History and Description, stoplist of the 1947 Casavant rebuild, and more -Database Manager

Websites

St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church - a photoset on Flikr - Extensive set (187) of photographs of the church (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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