Built in a period which might well be described as the
height of the modern church, the organ was installed to add musical
depth to the ongoing worship of the Chapel.
The east gallery of the
Chapel embraces the choir loft and the pipe organ. The pipes rise in
splendid array to the visual as well as musical beauty as one looks to
the rear of the sanctuary.
The Chapel organ was custom-built by
Cassavant Frères Limitée of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. The organ is inspired
by traditional organ building of past centuries, particularly those of
the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes a large number of
imitative or orchestral voices, and in many ways is a return to the
classic organ of the period of Bach and his contemporaries.
The Chapel
organ consists of two manual divisions and a pedal division, totalling
23 stops comprised of 28 ranks of pipes. The organ has a total of 1,563
pipes.