Casavant Frères Ltée.
Opus 700, 1917
Emmanuel Church, Episcopal
15 Newbury Street
Boston, MA, US
120 Ranks - 7,311 Pipes
Instrument ID: 8926 ● Builder ID: 1116 ● Location ID: 3937
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal10 Divisions107 Stops136 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Sequencer✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Database Manager on September 16th, 2014:
Updated through online information from John Buckwalter. -- Moved to China in 2007. Installation (with changes) scheduled for 2017.
Updated through online information from John Buckwalter. -- Moved to China in 2007. Installation (with changes) scheduled for 2017.
Database Manager on August 7th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Henry Lachance. -- I occasionally attend this church to hear their Sunday morning Bach Cantata program.
Database Manager on November 29th, 2010:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- 52-rank gallery organ located in cases to each side of the gallery window; the 63-rank chancel organ is located in chambers in the front; the 5-rank chapel organ is playable from the Swell manual.
Database Manager on October 19th, 2009:
Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was relocated to Gulangyu Island in China where it resides in an organ museum -- the former villa of a wealthy Chinese merchant -- along with a Norman & Beard relocated from England. The organ(s) were purchased by piano collector Hu Youyin. The Casavant was shipped in 2007.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1990.
Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
"Designed by Lynnwood Farnham. Chancel organ was rebuilt from the church's previous Hutchings 1890 Op. 216, 3-52. Offered for sale through the Organ Clearing House in 2004."
Related Instrument Entries: Rieger Orgelbau (2017) , Geo. S. Hutchings (& Co.) (Opus 216, 1890)
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