


Colborne Street United Church
Our Organ
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At Colborne, we have one of the oldest organs in Southwestern Ontario. The present Casavant Frères, Limitée console was initially built for First Baptist Church in Ottawa. A new solid-state capture system with 8 channels of memory was installed. Dodington and Dodington Pipe Organ Services maintain the organ. Organ Specifications: -Original Construction - Woodstock Pipe Organ Builders, 1936 -Console Reconstruction - Gabriel Kney and Company, 1964 -Tonal Revisions - Gabriel Kney and Company, 1978 -Console and Tonal Revisions, 1992 -The instrument has 30 stops, controlling 36 ranks of pipes. There are 2 223 pipes in total. Playing an organ well requires musically combining differing registrations using the manuals and pedal board, usually in differing sequences, whilst trying to have a foot free to activate the swell pedals as needed: the crescendo pedal is usually reserved for special crescendo and diminuendo effects.