Casavant Frères Ltée.
Opus 74, 1896
St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church
84 Cumberland St.
Woonsocket, RI, US
16 Ranks - 861 Pipes
Instrument ID: 2295 ● Builder ID: 1116 ● Location ID: 2211
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached
Design: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Pedalboard Type: Concave Straight
Features:
2 Manuals (58 Notes)27 Note Pedal3 Divisions14 Stops14 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action✓ Combination Trundle(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Fixed Mechanical
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
Database Manager on January 4th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Bill Czelusniak. -- This instrument is now certified (by research) to be the oldest surviving Casavant pipe organ in the United States. Contrary to earlier reports, this organ was not lost nor destroyed; it was in the possession of Catholic churches in Woonsocket RI, eventually ending up in, and for sale by, the St. Anne's Arts and Cultural Center in Woonsocket, occupying that closed church. Lacking an immediate home for relocation, the organ was purchased and protected by Mr. S. Parkman Shaw, Jr., of Brookline, Mass., using the advice and services of Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc., Northampton, Mass. The instrument was removed from Woonsocket into storage in March 2011. In November 2011, the South Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts voted to purchase, restore, and install this historic tracker in their sanctuary (displacing a 1969, 2m, 15r, Berkshire Organ Co., Inc., West Springfield, Mass., E-P opus).
Updated through online information from Bill Czelusniak. -- This instrument is now certified (by research) to be the oldest surviving Casavant pipe organ in the United States. Contrary to earlier reports, this organ was not lost nor destroyed; it was in the possession of Catholic churches in Woonsocket RI, eventually ending up in, and for sale by, the St. Anne's Arts and Cultural Center in Woonsocket, occupying that closed church. Lacking an immediate home for relocation, the organ was purchased and protected by Mr. S. Parkman Shaw, Jr., of Brookline, Mass., using the advice and services of Messrs. Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc., Northampton, Mass. The instrument was removed from Woonsocket into storage in March 2011. In November 2011, the South Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts voted to purchase, restore, and install this historic tracker in their sanctuary (displacing a 1969, 2m, 15r, Berkshire Organ Co., Inc., West Springfield, Mass., E-P opus).
Database Manager on March 29th, 2010:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Relocated to Our Lady of Victory, R. C., Woonsocket, RI. Replaced by Möller.
Related Instrument Entries: Unknown Builder (1918) , Czelusniak et Dugal, Inc. (2013) , Morel Organ Co. (1945 ca.)
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