Saint Cecilia Catholic Church

Organ Case

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Standing approximately 19 feet tall against the northwest wall of the church, the organ case houses sixteen extended ranks of more than 1000 individual pipes, which range from over nine feet to less than 1 inch in length. The casework of classic three-tower design is constructed of red oak and has been stained to compliment the cedar and brick interior of the church.

Organ Case

The detached two-manual console allows flexible placement to accommodate the organ's dual role as an accompaniment and a recital instrument.

The specifications, consisting of 27 speaking stops, is intended to allow performance of the full repertoire of organ literature. In addition to a full Principal chorus (8', 4', 2'), which is crowned by a three-rank Mixture (Mixture III), the organ includes three independent flute voices (Rorhflote, Gedeckt, Harmonic Flute), three string stops (Salicional, Viola di Gamba, Voix Celeste), two mutations (Nazard, Tierce) and two reeds (Trumpet, Vox Humana).

Facade pipes of the Principal 8' rank are constructed of burnished copper in the three towers and of 70% tin in the "flats". The remaining pipes, hidden from view, are made variously of wood, lead, and metal alloy. The Swell division utilized 3-1/4" of wind pressure; the Great utilizes 3".

A seismic retrofit was made to the case in 1996.

Specifications

Great

16 Bourdon (12p) 8 Principal (61p) 8 Rohrflote (61p) 8 Salicional (61p) 4 Flute (12p) 4 Octave (61p) 2 Superoctave (61p) III Mixture (171p) 8 Trompet (S w) 8 Vox Humana (S w)

Tremolo
Swell to Great

Swell

8 Gedeckt (61p) 8 Viol di Gamba (61p) 8 Voix Celeste (49p) 4 Harmonic Flute(61p) 2-23 Nazard (61p)_ 2 Harmonic Flute(12p) 1-3/5 Tierce (61p) 1-1/3 Nazard (12p) 8 Trumpet (61p) 8 Vox Humana (61p) 4 Clarion (12p)

Tremolo

Pedal

16 Bourbon (Gt) 8 Principal (Gt) 8 Flute (Gt) 4 Choralbass (Gt) 16 Posaune (12p)

Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal