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music: past organ specifications

The first instrument installed in the organ loft of St. Andrew’s Church was inaugurated with the opening of this building on January 25, 1874. A hand-pumped tracker organ of 21 ranks with two manuals and pedals by Samuel R. Warren & Co. of Montréal, it was built at a cost of $3200 and was “pronounced to be the finest organ of its size ever turned out by this builder” (Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1874). The specifications were as follows:

Great 56 notes, C-g’’’
16' Double Open Diapason [TC], metal
8' Open Diapason, metal
8' Dulciana [TC], metal
8' Melodia [Treble] [TC?], wood
8' Stopped Diapason Bass [C-B?], wood
4' Harmonic Flute, metal
4' Principal, metal
2' Fifteenth, metal
III Mixture, metal
8' Posaune, metal

Pedal 30 notes, C-f’
16' Double Open Diapason, wood
16' Bourdon, wood

Swell 56 notes, C-g’’’
8' Open Diapason (lower 8ve grooved into Stopped Diapason), metal
8' Viol de Gamba [TC], metal
8' Stopped Diapason Treble [TC?], wood
8' Stopped Diapason Bass [C-B?]
4' Violina, metal
2' Flautina (Harmonic), metal
II Mixture [metal]
8' Cornopean, metal

3 Great and 2 Swell Composition Pedals
Mechanical Registers: Sw/Gt, Gt/Ped, Sw/Ped; Tremolo to Swell; Bellows signal
Mechanical action, hand pumped. Console built into main case.

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