The Community Church’s 1971 Casavant Freres Ltee organ, Opus 3114, was restored
and enlarged in 2008–2009 by Elsener Organ Works and Ahlborn-Galanti and is now
known as the CAGE (Casavant-Ahlborn-Galanti-Elsener) organ. The upgraded organ
provides better choral support and reliable service, has special voices such as
harpsichord, harp/celesta, trompette en chamade, piccolo trumpet, and timpani, and
has a broader complement of stops to support a wider variety of organ literature. The
organ has 3 manuals with 59+ stops (33 pipe ranks—1,711 pipes—and 39+ digital
ranks). Some of the digital stops are always “on” and available to be played by pulling
on a drawknob, and some are playable by selecting the voice from a set of voices
available on the “Additional Stop” drawknobs. Each of the digital voices has multiple
variants of the voice so that the organist can custom select voices for a special effect,
such as Baroque-style sound. In addition, every pipe stop is backed up by a
coordinating digital stop so that the organ can play “pipes only,” “digital only,” or
“pipes + digital.” The CAGE organ incorporates the 20 tubular ball chimes from an
earlier 1928 Estey organ. The organ’s new 3-manual console was built by Elsener
Organ Works and is controlled by a custom Ahlborn-Galanti 3200 digital organ system.
The CAGE
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