Winnipeg, MB.
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Casavant, Opus 705/2508, 1917/1959
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| Grand Orgue | Open Diapason | 8' | Récit | Horn Diapason (grooved bass) | 8' | Pédale | Bourdon | 16' | ||
| Dulciana | 8' | Aeoline | 8' | |||||||
| Melodia | 8' | Stopped Diapason (treble) | 8' | |||||||
| Stopped Diapason (bass) | 8' | Stopped Diapason (bass) | 8' | |||||||
| Principal | 4' | Traverse Flute | 4' | |||||||
| Fifteenth | 2' | Mixture | III | |||||||
| Trumpet | 8' | Oboe and Bassoon | 8' | |||||||
| Cornopean | 8' |
| Accouplements: GT/PED, SW/GT, SW/PED |
| Signal des soufflers |
| Tremolo |
| GT/PED Réversible |
| 2 pédales de combinaison pour le Grand Orgue |
Une semaine avant le concert inaugural, ce texte apparaissait dans un journal quotidien (avec quelques erreurs concernant la composition sonore):
M. Shaw de la firme Warren & Son de Toronto, est dans notre cité dans le but d'installer un nouvel orgue à l'église All Saints' lequel a été construit par sa firme. La planification de l'instrument a été préparée avec soin et les jeux ont été sélectionnés dans le but d'obtenir un équilibre entre la puissance et la variété de son. Il possède deux claviers avec chacun cinq jeux avec provision de deux de plus au récit et d'un autre au grand orgue. Artistiquement, l'instrument sera une amélioration majeure pour l'église, la façade accrochée à l'extérieur du sanctuaire d'environ deux pieds et les tuyaux sont décorés avec goût. Mr. Shaw est inquiet quant à la capacité de compléter l'harmonisation et de rendre le tout disponible pour dimanche à l'occasion du service musical spécial pour marquer la dédicace du nouvel instrument qui se tiendra dimanche soir, le 14. Pour l'occasion la chorale chantera la Magnificat, en fa, de Tours ainsi que l'antienne "The Lord is King" de Trimmel. La chorale est présentement imposante et se compose de douze hommes et dix-huit garçons.- (Manitoba Free Press, 7 novembre 1891)
Avec l'expansion que connût la paroisse avec l'augmentation de la population de Winnipeg au tournant du siècle, le besoin d'une nouvelle église devint apparent dès 1905 mais la question ne sera pas résolue pour les prochaines 20 années. Alors que la guerre faisait rage, il a été décidé qu'un nouvel orgue serait un mémorial approprié pour honorer les membres de la congrégation qui ont perdu la vie lors de ce conflit. Un comité fut formé pour entreprendre les démarches auprès des différents facteurs concernant les styles et les prix.
Le résultat du travail du comité fut le placement d'une commande auprès de la maison Casavant Frères du Québec, facteurs reconnus, pour un nouvel orgue au prix de $8,344 pour être livré en juillet 1917 … et il est plaisant de relater qu'encore une fois la société Ladies' Aid a pris les devants de la scène en offrant généreusement de verser chaque versement de $500 plus intérêt lorsque dû. L'orgue a été installé en mémorial de tous les hommes de All Saints qui moururent durant la guerre et fut dédicacé le dimanche, 16 septembre 1917 alors que l'église était remplie à pleine capacité. Le vieil orgue fut, à la demande de la société Ladies' Aid, présenté à la congrégation de l'église St. Alban de Winnipeg.- (Histoire de l'église All Saints)
L'instrument de 3 claviers et de 37 jeux, qui fut ensuite agrandi (3 claviers et 48 jeux) et restauré en 1959, est toujours l'orgue de l'église All Saints.
[cliquer sur l'image ou ici pour obtenir une version agrandie]
In 1883 a site was selected for All Saints' Anglican Church at the intersection of Broadway Avenue and Osborne Street, where the present edifice now stands. Within a year services were conducted in the unfinished building. One of the ideals of the founders of this parish was that worship services should place more emphasis on the musical and ritualistic aspects of worship than was customary in Anglican churches in Winnipeg at the time.
Accordingly, the nucleus of a substantial organ fund was established by the Ladies' Aid Society in 1884; even the Girls' Guild obtained some money from their activities that they wished to save for the organ. For a time a small pipe organ was rented from a Winnipeg dealer, then a reed organ was purchased from Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Company, Chicago, pending the outcome of inquiries regarding the purchase of a pipe organ. Not all of the fund-raising activities of the Ladies' Aid Society were exempt from criticism, however, as this anonymous letter complained:
Church of All Saints has just been formally opened by the Bishop of Ruperts Land. 2 things in connection with the church and its opening are public property, and neither is creditable to those concerned… [One] matter is the illegal, immoral lottery which the church is sanctioning for the benefit of the organ fund. A bed quilt or something of the sort is to be gambled for, the proceeds of the swindle to go to the church. All Saints Church is improperly named, it should be called All Sinners. To expect true Christianity in a fashionable church seems as absurd as to expect decency in a monkey house.- (Winnipeg Siftings, 23 February 1884)
Three builders are known to have submitted specifications and cost estimates for the proposed organ. In 1884 H.W. Bolton, Montréal and Winnipeg, offered to build a two-manual, 18-stop instrument for $2,500. Nevertheless, a friend of the Church Warden, residing in Ottawa, who was knowledgeable about pipe organs, offered some frank opinions in this letter:
Don't have Bolton. Have you never heard of a Wily Winnipegger of the Queen's Hall organ of Montreal! Warren is rather dear but there is a man in Toronto Edward Lye who puts up a great many two manual organs. He is cheap and I believe good. I have a small 2 manual of his in my house but as it has only 1 stop for each manual and has passed 18 months alongside of a hot stove pipe it has not had a fair chance. I am however well enough pleased with it to think it worth your while to get someone to call on him in Toronto and see some of his organs of which he has built several. In Montreal there is a new man called Casavant, the cleverest tuner I ever met with and if one can believe Davies he is one of the best in the country for small organs. Davies is not always quite disinterested as we know but I think you should make inquiries about him in Montreal. He tunes nearly all the organs here and has put up one or two, and Davies who is now fixed here at St. Albans raves about him - Casavant Frères Organ Builders, Montreal, will find him.- (Letter to All Saints' Church Warden from J.M.F. Harrison, 31 March 1884)
About the same time the Toronto firm S.R. Warren & Son entered their bids for the construction of a new organ: a two-manual instrument for $4,400, and a three-manual instrument for $5,300. Their letter concluded with these pronouncements:
The fact of there being other tenders for the work, would make no difference in our figures. We are tendering for first class work, and we find that it cannot be done for less money than we ask for it and allow a living profit. While we think you will find our prices compare favourably with those of first class builders, we cannot come down to the level of men who have made such disgraceful failures as the Queen's Hall organ in Montreal, which by the way we have just been asked to rebuild.- (Letter to Fred W. Laffery, Winnipeg, from S.R. Warren & Son, 28 March 1884)
Warren was unrelenting in his criticism of Bolton; in a covering letter accompanying the preceding correspondence, he reiterated his low opinion of his competitor:
We are aware that there is a builder in Winnipeg but we should think that your congregation would hardly care to take the risk of entrusting the work to a man who has made so many disgraceful failures as the Queen's Hall organ in Montreal and in fact everything he has attempted.- (Letter to C.J. Brydges, Ottawa [Land Commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company and Honorary treasurer of the Synod of Rupert's Land], from S.R. Warren, 28 March 1884)
Casavant Frères declined to submit specifications and a cost estimate until the church furnished further details about the environment in which the organ would be installed. Specifically, the company inquired about the size and dimensions of the building, the placement of the organ, and whether it was desired to have a complete organ initially or a basic instrument that could be enlarged later, "otherwise we should be exposed to make specification of an organ that would not suit the church at all".
All of the church's inquiries were premature, as it turned out, for in 1888 the Ladies' Aid Society decided to concentrate on paying off the debt on the church building and to defer any outlays for a new pipe organ until that goal was met. At last, in 1891, the society was in a position to apply its available funds to the long-cherished purpose of providing an organ for the church, which was installed later in the year. The successful applicant was S.R. Warren & Son, Toronto; the installation of the instrument was completed late in November 1891. The total cost was $1,837.40, of which $1,000 was payable immediately, and the balance in two equal instalments payable in November 1893 and 1894. The specifications were as follows:
| Great | Open Diapason | 8' | Swellt | Horn Diapason (grooved bass) | 8' | Pedal | Bourdon | 16' | ||
| Dulciana | 8' | Aeoline | 8' | |||||||
| Melodia | 8' | Stopped Diapason (treble) | 8' | |||||||
| Stopped Diapason (bass) | 8' | Stopped Diapason (bass) | 8' | |||||||
| Principal | 4' | Traverse Flute | 4' | |||||||
| Fifteenth | 2' | Mixture | III | |||||||
| Trumpet | 8' | Oboe and Bassoon | 8' | |||||||
| Cornopean | 8' |
| Mechanical Registers: GT/PED, SW/GT, SW/PED |
| Bellows Signal |
| Tremolo |
| GT/PED Reversible |
| 2 Combination Pedals to GT |
A week before the opening concert, this announcement appeared in a daily newspaper (with some inaccuracies regarding the stoplist):
Mr. Shaw of Messrs. Warren & Son, Toronto, is in the city placing the new organ in All Saints' Church, built by his firm, in position. The instrument has been carefully planned and the stops chosen for balance of power and variety of tone. It has two manuals with five stops on each, and provision for two more on the swell and one on the great. Artistically, it will be a great improvement to the church, the front bracketed out into the chancel, projecting about two feet, and the pipes are tastefully decorated. Mr. Shaw is doubtful whether he will be able to get the organ tuned and ready for use by Sunday, so the special musical service in connection with the dedication of the new instrument will be held on Sunday evening, the 14th inst., when the choir will sing Tours "Magnificat" in F, and Trimmel's anthem "The Lord is King". The choir is very strong at present, numbering about twelve men and eighteen boys.- (Manitoba Free Press, 7 November 1891)
With the expansion of the parish that accompanied the increase in Winnipeg's population around the turn of the century, the need for a new church building became apparent as early as 1905, although the question was not resolved for over 20 years. While the war was going on, it was decided that a new pipe organ would provide a fitting memorial to members of the congregation who had lost their lives in the conflict. A committee was formed to make inquiries about various makes, designs, and prices.
The result of this committee's work was the placing of an order with Messrs. Casavant Frères of Québec, the well-known manufacturers, for a new pipe organ at a price of $8,344 to be delivered in July 1917… and it is pleasant to relate that the Ladies' Aid Society again came to the front and very generously offered to meet each instalment of $500 with interest as the same matured. The organ was duly installed as a memorial to the men of All Saints' who feel in the war and was dedicated on Sunday the 16th September 1917, the Church being crowded. The old organ was at the desire of the Ladies' Aid Society presented to the Congregation of St. Alban's Church in the City of Winnipeg.- (History of All Saints' Church)
The three-manual, 37-stop instrument, later enlarged to 3/48 and refitted in 1959, is the present organ in All Saints' Church.
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| Double Open (ext) | 16' | *Flûte conique | 16' | |
| Open Diapason I | 8' | *Diapason | 8' | |
| Open Diapason II | 8' | Principal | 8' | |
| Doppel Flute | 8' | Bourdon | 8' | |
| Gemshorn | 8' | Gemshorn | 8' | |
| Principal | 4' | *Octave | 4' | |
| Harmonic Flute | 4' | *Chimney Flute | 4' | |
| Fifteenth | 2' | *Octave Quint | 2 2/3' | |
| Mixture | III | *Superoctave | 2' | |
| Trumpet | 8' | *Fourniture 1 1/3' | IV | |
| *Cymbal 1/2' | III | |||
| Trumpet | 8' | |||
Swell |
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| Bourdon | 16' | *Quintaton | 16' | |
| Open Diapason | 8' | Geigen Principal | 8' | |
| Stopped Diapason | 8' | Rohrgedeckt | 8' | |
| Viola da Gamba | 8' | *Spitzflöte | 8' | |
| Voix céleste | 8' | Salicional | 8' | |
| Aeoline | 8' | Voix céleste | 8' | |
| Principal | 4' | *Geigen Octave | 4' | |
| Flauto traverso | 4' | Flauto traverso | 2' | |
| Harmonic Piccolo | 2' | Harmonic Piccolo | 2 | |
| Mixture | III | *Plein Jeu 2' | III | |
| Cornopean | 8' | *Bassoon | 16' | |
| Oboe | 8' | Trompette | 8' | |
| Vox Humana | 8' | Oboe | 8' | |
| Tremulant | *Clairon | 4' | ||
| Tremulant | ||||
Choir |
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| Geigen Principal | 8' | Lieblich Gedeckt | 8' | |
| Melodia | 8' | Dulciane | 8' | |
| Dulciana | 8' | Principal | 4' | |
| Lieblich Gedeckt | 8' | *Koppelflöte | 4' | |
| Suabe Flute | 4' | *Nazard | 2 2/3' | |
| Flageolet | 2' | *Blockflöte | 2' | |
| Orchestral Oboe | 8' | *Tierce | 1 3/5' | |
| Clarinet | 8' | Clarinet | 8' | |
| Tremulant | Tremulant | |||
Pedal |
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1959 |
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| Open Diapason | 16' | *Resultant | 32' | |
| Bourdon | 16' | *Contre Bass | 16' | |
| Gedeckt (Swell) | 16' | Bourdon | 16' | |
| Violoncello | 8' | *Flûte conique (ext) | 16' | |
| Stopped Diapason (ext) | 16' | Quintaton (ext) | 16' | |
| Trombone | 16' | *Principal | 8' | |
| Violoncello | 8' | |||
| Stopped Flute (ext) | 8' | |||
| Flûte conique (ext) | 8' | |||
| Fifteenth (ext) | 4' | |||
| Flute (ext) | 4' | |||
| *Mixture | III | |||
| Trombone | 16' | |||
| Fagotto (ext) | 16' | |||
| * | Nouveau jeu/nouvelle tuyauterie / New stop/New pipes |