Wheaton College Conservatory of Music

Wheaton, Illinois— Edman Memorial Chapel
— Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
Three manuals and pedals, 49 stops, 70 ranks
Attached drawknob keydesk, compass 61/32
Second, detached movable four manual drawknob console
Mechanical key action, electric stop action
Opus 3796, 2001
Photographs: Stanley Scheer
Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois was founded in 1860 as a private
interdenominational Christian college. Edman Memorial Chapel is a very large
rectangular space seating two thousand people. The audience sits facing the long
side of the auditorium in order that no one sits very far from the stage. The
instrument is placed in an elevated position above the level of a spacious stage
that is capable of seating a very large orchestra. Due to the cubic volume of the
building, its seating capacity and the need to accompany large groups of collegeage students singing enthusiastically, an instrument of significant size was
needed. Drawing on our experience in utilizing the eighteenth-century Résonance
concept in another building of considerable cubic volume, The Temple Complex
in Independence Missouri, we incorporated such a division in this instrument for
those occasions when the room is filled to capacity and the instrument needs to
have additional resources to lead singing and inspire listeners.
The uses of this instrument are many-fold and include practice and teaching as
well as performance. For flexibility, the organ divisions were provided with a
secondary electric action. A movable four manual electric-action console,
connected to the organ through a multiplex cable, is available on either the stage
or auditorium floor level for those occasions when performing from a position
other than the mechanical action console is desired. The simple façade treatment
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I cannot tell you all how pleased we are with the instrument. Daily
we count our blessings for this magnificent instrument. If any one
person could be singled out I think it would not be right, since it so
obviously is the work of so many expert and caring hands. So we
send our heartfelt thanks to the entire Casavant family for such a
superlative addition to our college, community, and the
metropolitan Chicago area.
— Edward Zimmerman, Professor of Organ, September 2001
Grand Orgue
Montre
Montre
Flûte à cheminée
Prestant
Flûte ouverte
Quinte
Doublette
Cornet III
Grande Fourniture II-III
Fourniture IV-V
Trompette
Tremblant
Positif
Montre
Bourdon
Prestant
Flûte à fuseau
Nazard
Doublette
Quarte de nazard
Tierce
Larigot
Cymbale V
Trompette
Cromorne
Tremblant
16
8
8
4
4
2-2/3
2
2-2/3
2-2/3
1-1/3
8
8
8
4
4
2-2/3
2
2
1-3/5
1-1/3
1
8
8
Récit
Principal
Cor de nuit
Viole de gambe
Voix céleste (TC)
Octave
Flûte octaviante
Octavin
Cornet harmonique II
Plein Jeu V
Basson
Trompette harmonique
Hautbois
Voix humaine
Clairon harmonique
Tremblant
Pédale
Basse résultante
Contrebasse
Montre (Grand Orgue)
Principal (Résonance)
Bourdon (Résonance)
Octavebasse
Flûte majeure (Résonance)
Octave
Flûte (Résonance)
Flûte (Résonance)
8
8
8
8
4
4
2
2-2/3
2
16
8
8
8
4
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16
16
16
16
8
8
4
4
2
Résonance
Principal (Ext.) 1
16
Bourdon (Ext.) 1
16
1
Principal
8
Flûte majeure 2
8
Flûte harmonique (common bass)
8
Octave
4
Flûte
4
Grande Tierce
3-1/5
Plein Jeu harmonique III-V
2
Trombone (Ext.)
16
Trompette
8
Clairon (Ext.)
4
1
2
Pipework from previous organ
Notes 1-12 from previous organ
© Casavant Frères
Pédale (continued)
Théorbe III (Derived)
Contre Bombarde (Ext.)
Bombarde
Trombone (Résonance)
Basson (Récit)
Trompette (Résonance)
Trompette harmonique (Récit)
Clairon (Résonance)
10-2/3
32
16
16
16
8
8
4