Feb 2022 - Console (Photograph by Ryan Qu/Ryan Qu)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1998. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - R.P. Butchart signed the contract on April 21, 1920 for II/11-ranks for $15,325. A Duo-Art player was included. The organ was sold by AeolianÆs Toronto agents, Mason & Risch Ltd. The price to them for the organ was $3,937.50. In August Butchart bought three more ranks and a Harp for $5,110. In 1928 another three ranks and a set of Chimes were added for $3,550. The estate became the Butchart Gardens. During World War II the organ was moved to Stanley Park, Vancouver. In February 1969, it was shipped back and reinstalled in the Butchart house. -Database Manager
2009-11-01 - Updated through on-line information from Douglas Adams. -- The former residence 'Benvenuto' is used as a restaurant and office space by The Butchart Gardens. -Database Manager
2022-11-08 - The Opus number is TBC at the console. This organ is currently in Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay B.C., in an organ pavilion rebuilt from a barn building. Originally installed in the Burchart's family residence which is now the garden restaurant, and the organ was relocated to the current location (date unknown to my knowledge). Blower and the player system is located in the base level and the pipe chamber and console is placed upstairs. All pipes are in one enclosed pipe chamber at the rear of the room. Console is an upright piano-style console with very unusual labeling for stops, situated by floor-height windows for display purposes. Console, organist and shutter are all clearly visible to the audience via windows and powered curtains. The organ is played 10 Saturdays every year in July and August after the fireworks at the garden as the postlude. Regularly maintained by Jason Barnsley and in very good condition for its age and technology. The organ practically only has 1 division (enclosed) consisted of a mass of orchestral voices, with two manuals duplicating and 1 stop on the pedal with 2 different wind pressures. One swell pedal controls all "divisions" marked "crescendo" and a crescendo pedal located to the LEFT of the swell pedal marked "tonal". A tutti toe stud is marked "sfz" and cancels tutti upon release. Garden management staff informed that there MAY be a second organ in existence purchased by the Butchart family and is an exact duplicate of this organ, currently in storage somewhere in the garden, but the validity of rumor, and Opus number of both organs, if applicable, is unconfirmed. -Ryan Qu
Source: Taken From Console
Pedal (Enclosed in Master Pipe Chamber) Deep Flute - F 16, Deep Flute - P 16
Manual I (Enclosed in Master Pipe Chamber) Diapason 8, French Horn 8, String F 8, Vibrato String MF 8, String P 8, String PP 8, Flute F 8, Flute P 8, High Flute 4, Trumpet 8, Oboe 8, Clarinet 8, Vox Humana 8 (Auto Tremolo ON)
Manual II (Duplicate of Manual I, shared pipes ) Diapason 8, French Horn 8, String F 8, Vibrato String MF 8, String P 8, Vibrato String P 8, String PP 8, Flute F 8, Flute P 8, High Flute 4, Trumpet 8, Oboe 8, Clarinet 8, Vox Humana 8 (Auto Tremolo ON), Tremolo
Couplers Manual I Solo OFF, Manual II Solo OFF, Manual I to Pedal, Manual II to Pedal, Pedal Octave, Manual II to Manual I, Manual I Octave, Manual II Octave, Pedal Augment, Manual I Unison Release, Manual II Unison Release, Pedal Release, Pedal Without Manual
Accessories (Enclosed in Master Pipe Chamber) Piano (With Octave & Dynamic Slider), Harp (Floating Division with Slider), Chimes (Floating Division with Slider )
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