Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Frères Ltée. Opus 1040 (1924)

Sacred Heart Major Seminary: Chapel
2701 W. Chicago Blvd.
Detroit, MI

Images

2014-11-15 - Seminary Exterior (Photograph by Ellen Tipton/Database Manager)

2014-11-15 - Console (Photograph by Ellen Tipton/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Movable Console
3 manuals
56 stops
53 registers
7 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: Computerized/Digital
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 - Restored c. 1998 by Columbia Organ Works. -Database Manager

2010-06-11 - Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager

2017-05-05 - Updated by David Hufford, who gave this as the source of the information: Inspected instrument several times to submit proposals.<br> Work done by Columbia ca. 1996 was limited to console work adding Classic control systems, plus rewiring of organ proper to the new outputs. -Database Manager

Stoplist

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

       Detroit, Michigan
       Sacred Heart Seminary, Chapel
 
       Casavant   Op. 1040   1924   3/60

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

       GREAT                       SWELL
   16' Double Open      61     16' Bourdon           73
    8' Open Diapason    73      8' Open Diapason     73
    8' Violin Diapason  73      8' Stopped Diapason  73
    8' Doppel Flöte     73      8' Viola da Gamba    73   
    8' Chimney Flute    73      8' Voix Céleste      68
    8' Dolce            73      8' Aeoline           73
    4' Octave           73      4' Flauto Traverso   73
    4' Harmonic Flute   73      2' Piccolo           61
2 2/3' Twelfth          73      V  Cornet           365
    2' Fifteenth        61     16' Double Trumpet    73
   IV  Mixture         292      8' Cornopean         73
    8' Trumpet          73      8' Oboe              73
       Super                    8' Vox Humana        73
                                4' Clarion           73
       AUXILIARY GREAT             Tremulant
    8' Open Diapason    73         Sub
    8' Hohl Flöte       73         Super
    8' Gemshorn         73
    4' Octave           73         AUXILIARY SWELL
    4' Harmonic Flute   73      8' Diapason          73
    8' Trumpet          73      8' Rohrflöte         73
       Unison Off               8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
       Super                    8' Viole Celeste     73
                                8' Musette           73
       PEDAL                       Tremulant
   16' Open Diapason    32         Sub
   16' Bourdon          32         Unison Off
   16' Violone          32         Super
   16' Dulciana         32
   16' Gedeckt          SW         CHOIR
    8' Octave           12      8' Geigen Principal  73
    8' Stopped Diapason 32      8' Melodia           73
    8' Violoncello      12      8' Quintadena        73
   16' Trombone         32      8' Dulciana          73
                                4' Flute d'Amour     73
       AUXILIARY PEDAL          2' Flageolet         61
   16' Bourdon          32      8' Clarinet          73
   16' Gedeckt          32      8' Orchestral Oboe   73
                                   Tremulant
                                   Sub
                                   Super

[Received on line from Jeff Scofield June 11, 2010.]