Casavant Frères Ltée.
Opus 2560-A, 1959

St. Paul Catholic Church | Harvard Square

Right Transept

Cambridge, MA, US

19 Ranks
Instrument ID: 45519 ● Builder ID: 1116 ● Location ID: 8954
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2 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal

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

Andrew Scanlon on March 9th, 2022:
This chancel instrument was removed around 2015. It is completely gone.

Jeff Scofield on October 30th, 2020:
From the church's 2020 Wikipedia page: An organ of 35 stops was built for the original church building in 1904 by Jesse Woodberry & Co (Opus 251), designed by Edward MacGoldrick. The organ was enlarged to 50 stops and relocated to the gallery of the present building between 1923 and 1924 by Emil Mias. Mias died before the organ's completion, so his son, Paul F.C. Mias finished the organ. Casavant Frères built in 1947 a new console for the Woodberry/Mias organ, which was their Op. 1893. In 1959, Casavant annexed a Chancel organ (Op. 1893, 2560A) of 19 ranks, in the 'neo-baroque' style in the south transept to the Woodberry/Mias gallery organ. The gallery organ underwent significant tonal alterations in 1971 under the direction of Arthur Birchall, former vice-president of Aeolian-Skinner. A new console was completed in 1999 by Robert M. Turner, and numerous electronic voices were synthesized by Walker Technical Company. In 2015 plans were finalized to return the console to its original position in the Organ gallery, and the digital voices were all removed, along with the neo-baroque pipework. An 1855 chamber organ was also erected in the South transept for use when the choir sings in that location.

Database Manager on August 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Alexander Pattavina.

Database Manager on November 22nd, 2009:
Identified through information from Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture This was a new organ for the Chancel, using the console Casavant built for the gallery organ in 1947. That console was moved from the gallery to the chancel and used to play both the new chancel organ and the gallery organ. According to the church's web site, the gallery organ was originally built by Jesse Woodberry and Co. in 1904, then moved to this building and electrified by Mias in the 1920s.

Related Instrument Entries: Robert M. Turner (1999) , Casavant Frères Ltée. (Opus 1893, 1947)

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