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CONSOLES
Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)30 Note Pedal5 Divisions46 Stops53 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location
New 4-manual console and Pedal additions by Casavant in 1966.
Database Manager on October 13th, 2009:
Updated through on-line information from Douglas Adams.
Database Manager on February 19th, 2007:
Identified through on-line information from Douglas Adams. -- "Largest Church Organ In Western Canada" (Victoria Daily Colonist, 1910-07-08, during erection) - a magnum opus from the height of the orchestral period. Recitalists in its early years included: Joseph Bonnet, Marcel Dupré, Charles M. Courboin, Alfred Hollins, Louis Vièrne. (ref: Victoria Daily Times, 1927-03-15) In 1997 on the amalgamation of Metropolitan and First United Churches, Victoria Conservatory of music bought the building with organ. Construction of a stage necessitated removal of the fixed console. Seismic upgrading necessitated removal of the blower room. The existing console is on display in the lobby, across from the office counter. The organ was renovated by Grant Smalley in 2010 and an older Casavant console was rebuilt and updated to serve as the present console.
Webpage Links: Victoria Conservatory of Music - Alix Goolden Performance Hall
Related Instrument Entries: Grant A. Smalley (2010) , Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 400, 1966)
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