Keates-Geissler Pipe Organs Ltd
1980

Originally J. W. Walker (1872)

Christ Church Cathedral

930 Burdett Avenue
Victoria, BC, CA

Instrument ID: 44752 ● Builder ID: 3289 ● Location ID: 22219
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CONSOLES

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Builder: Unknown
Position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
4 Manuals 5 Divisions62 StopsElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Thumb Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe 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 (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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DETAILS

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on October 30th, 2009:

Identified through on-line information from Douglas Adams. -- Rebuild and relocation to west gallery of the 1957 rebuild of the 1929 rebuild of the 1872 Walker organ. Installed on a new concrete shelf above the west gallery: Great and Pedal to left and middle-rear; Positiv to middle-front; Swell to right; Choir below shelf. Unit chests controlled by discrete diode-transistor logic boards. Console and most of previous organ reused, two electronic 32 ft stops added. Decommissioned 2002-01-06, replaced by Wolff opus 47 in 2005.

Related Instrument Entries: Wm. Hill & Sons and Norman & Beard Ltd. (1957) , Chandos G. Dix (1929) , J. W. Walker (Opus 972, 1872)

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