2022-11-25 - Organ in the room (Photograph by David M Storey/David Storey)
2014-04-27 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Ross Wood/Database Manager)
2023 - Facade (Len Levasseur/John Roper)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Casavant Frères (1919, Opus808). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Rebuild. Restored, with 14 new ranks added. 2nd console added at front of chapel. Pedal resultant 32'. 6 reeds. SS combination. -Database Manager
2010-04-26 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 1969 Casavant console renovated and used for 1996 rebuild. -Database Manager
2017-11-24 - Updated by Steve Bartley, who maintains the organ.<br> During the 1990s renovation, Casavant redesigned the chest action, providing new pouch boards, thus converting the ventil action to pitman action. The original primary was retained, the ventil stop actions removed and schwimmer regulators installed on the bottom of the chests. All this work has been performing well. Despite the carpeting, the acoustics of the room are still acceptable. A Google image search of "Our Lady of the Angels, Catonsville" provides a good idea of this jewel-like interior. The church (former seminary) is at the center of the Charlestown Retirement Community" and access to the organ, for residents, makes it a great place to live for organists. -Database Manager
2019-02-02 - Updated by René Le Grand In the mentality of the CASAVANT firm, there is no such thing as «Rebuild and Restored» (in the Notes). It is either «rebuilt» or «restored». If CASAVANT brings back to the factory the entire organ in both instances, in the case of a rebuild, every components of the organ, except the pipes, would be reconstructed and there would likely be a new opus number applied. There is no new opus number! According to a text on the building «a complete overhaul in 1996» (John J. STRUMSKY, Jr., The History of Charlestown: 35/ 363 p.), I am inclined to go with a restoration. (https://ccicharlestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/100639-charlestown-historybook-small.pdf) -Database Manager
2019-04-18 - Updated by Mark Hurley, who has heard or played the organ. <br> <br>I attended then Saint Mary\'s Seminary College (formerly Saint Charles College) from 1969 to 1971 and played the organ many times. The original 1919 Casavant console was sited to the west side of the choir gallery (on the right side, facing the organ). It had drawknobs on flat terraced jambs and the inter-manual couplers were on rocker tablets above the swell manual. The swell and choir expression shades were mechanical, although the console had the signature Casavant chrome expression pedals.<br><br>This console was replaced in 1970 with the one that is now there, albeit rebuilt. <br>It did not have any improvements, e.g., more pistons, etc. (I remember the Casavant representatives, Burness and Associated of Pennsylvania, being in the chapel when the work is being done.) The new console was essentially a modern version of the original. At the same time, the mechanical expression actions were replaced by new Casavant electro-pneumatic swell shade units. No other alterations were done to the instrument at that time.<br><br>According to the 1919 specifications, the 8\' Trumpet on the great and the 16\' Trombone on the pedal were \"soft.\" When I played it, they weren\'t. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Catonsville, Maryland
Charleston Retirement Center
Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels
Casavant Op. 808 1996 3/44
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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The following is the stoplist of the renovated 1969 gallery
console; the new 2-manual rocker-tablet console in the front
of the nave has an identical stoplist, but has the Choir as
a floating division
GREAT
1. 16' Dbl Open Diapason 56 1-12 from No. 37, new tuning sleeves
2. 8' Open Diapason 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
3. 8' Violin Diapason 68 New tuning sleeves with slots, 18 up
4. 8' Hohlflöte 68 1-12 stoppers releathered
5. 8' Chimney Flute 68 Metal caps refelted, 1-12 stoppers
releathered
6. 4' Octave 68 New tuning sleeves, false length cut
7. 4' Flute 68 1-9 existing, enw tuning sleeves,
20 up new pipes
8. 2 2/3' Twelfth 68 New tuning sleeves, false length cut
9. 2 2/3' Nazard 61 New pipes on Dolce action
10. 2' Fifteenth 61 New tuning sleeves, false length cut
11. 2' Flute 61 New pipes on new chest
12. 1 3/5' Tierce 61 New pipes on new chest
13. IV Mixture 244 New pipes on new chest, with
schwimmer and primary
14. 8' Trumpet 68 Revoiced with new tongues and shallots,
resonators cut dead-length
Super
Chimes Existing reconnected
SWELL
15. 16' Bourdon 68 Tuning caps releathered
16. 8' Open Diapason 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
17. 8' Stopped Diapason 68 Stopped releathered
18. 8' Viola di Gamba 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
19. 8' Voix céleste 56 tc, new tuning sleeves
20. 4' Octave 61 New pipes on Aeoline action
21. 4' Flauto Traverso 68
22. 2' Piccolo 61 New tuning sleeves
23. IV Mixture 244 New pipes
24. 8' Cornopean 68 Revoiced with new tongues,
resonators cut dead-length
25. 8' Oboe 68 Revoiced with new tongues, scrolls
soldered
26. 8' Vox Humana 68 Revoied with new tongues, new tuning
sleeves
Tremulant
Sub
Unison Off
Super
CHOIR
27. 8' Geigen Principal 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
28. 8' Melodia 68 1-12 stoppers releathered
29. 8' Dulciana 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
30. 8' Unda Maris 68 New tuning sleeves, 18 up
31. 4' Fugara 61 New pipes on Viole action
32. 4' Waldflöte 68
33. 2' Flageolet 61 New tuning sleeves
34. 8' Clarinet 68 Revoiced with new tongues,
new tuning sleeves
Tremulant
Sub
Unison Off
Super
PEDAL
35. 32' Resultant -- Wired from No. 37
36. 16' Open Diapason 32
37. 16' Bourdon 32
38. 16' Gedeckt -- From No. 15
39. 8' Oktavbass -- 1-12 from No. 1, extension of No. 42
40. 8' Open Diapason 12
41. 8' Stopped Diapason 12
42. 4' Octave 32 New pipes and toeboard on Violoncello
chest
43. 16' Trombone 32 Revoiced with new tongues, caps removed,
scrolls soldered
44. 8' Trumpet -- From No. 14
45. 4' Clarion -- From No. 14
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