Casavant Brothers
Opus 19-SH, 1914
University of Illinois
Auditorium (Foellinger)
506 South Wright Street
Urbana-Champaign, IL, US
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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Movable Console
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals 59 Stops85 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop ActionCombination Thumb Piston(s)Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)Sforzando Toe Piston(s)Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination Action: Remote Pneumatic/Mechanical Capture
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield.
Database Manager on March 14th, 2007:
Updated through online information from Sanford Berry. -- I taught bassoon at the U of IL 40 years. In the early days, I studied organ, practiced on this instrument as well as the Skinner in Smith Hall. When it was removed, I bought some parts of it for a house organ. The instrument was rebuilt in the early 1960s by Wicks, with all new windchests, some new pipes; I am not sure which, I never played it after the rebuild. I believe it was reduced in size somewhat. The Aeolian-Skinner console and combo action from the 1940s was retained. The organ was removed in the early 1980s as part of a major rehab of the building. There had been perpetual roof leakage problems and the instrument was near unplayable by that time.The Swell and Choir-Solo chambers had tar-paper roofs and eave troughs with downspouts in an attempt to control the water problem.( I am NOT kidding)
Database Manager on March 8th, 2007:
Note from Stan Scheer: Rebuilt by Aeolian-Skinner as Op. 1177 (1948).
Database Manager on March 7th, 2007:
Identified through information received from Stan Scheer, Casavant Frères. The figure recorded under "Registers" in the list above refers to the total number of speaking stops, including including duplexed and extended stops but excluding couplers, tremulants and controls. "Stops" refers to the number of independent or straight stops excluding duplexed and extended stops as well as couplers and controls. There are 221 couplers on this organ.
Related Instrument Entries: John-Paul Buzard (Opus 3, 1986)
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