St Albans Cathedral

The Organs

St Albans Cathedral

Harrison & Harrison (1962, 2009) The Swell and Great Organs are GREAT housed in the north and south cases Principal 16 / Bourdon 16 The original plans for the organ, as respectively, on either side of the Principal 8 / Diapason 8 completed in 1962, were drawn up by quire screen. A new case was built in Spitzflute 8 / Stopped Diapason 8 Ralph Downes in association with the 1962 for the Choir Organ, designed by Octave 4 / Stopped Flute 4 / Quint 223 cathedral organist, Peter Hurford, and Cecil Brown, cathedral architect of the Super Octave 2 / Blockflute 2 in consultation with the organ time, and placed centrally on the east Mixture (19.22.26.29) IV–VI builders.The organ incorporates side of the screen. The console is on Bass Trumpet 16 / Trumpet* 8 pipework from the previous organ, the west side. Clarion* 4 together with the north and south Grand Cornet (1.8.12.15.17) V organ cases designed by John Oldrid Major restoration in 2007–09 included Choir to Great / Swell to Great Scott, dating from 1908. However, all a new four-manual console and the Solo to Great of the old pipework was revoiced and addition of several new stops, while the tonal design was completely new. the 1962 tonal scheme was preserved. A nave division will be added later.

GREAT Mixture (22.26.29) III SOLO Principal 16 Cimbel* (29.33.36) III Corno di Bassetto 16 Bourdon 16 Hautboy 8 (from Sw) Principal 8 Vox Humana 8 Grand Cornet V Diapason 8 Corno di Bassetto 16 (from Gt) Spitzflute 8 Trumpet 8 Fanfare Trumpet 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Clarion 4 Cimbelstern, 6 bells* Octave 4 Tremulant Octave Stopped Flute 4 Octave Unison Off Quint 223 Sub-Octave Great Reeds on Solo Super Octave 2 Unison Off Blockflute 2 PEDAL Mixture IV–VI CHOIR Sub Bass 32 (19.22.26.29) Quintaton 16 Principal 16 Bass Trumpet 16 Open Diapason 8 Major Bass 16 Trumpet* 8 Gedacktpommer 8 Bourdon 16 Clarion* 4 Flauto traverso 8 Quint 1023 Grand Cornet V Octave 4 Octave 8 (1.8.12.15.17) Rohrflute 4 Gedeckt 8 Choir to Great Waldflute 2 Nazard 513 Swell to Great Larigot 113 Choral Bass 4 Solo to Great Sesquialtera (19.24) II Open Flute 2 Mixture (22.26.29.33) IV Mixture (19.22.26.29) IV SWELL Cromorne 8 Fagotto* 32 Open Diapason 8 Tremulant Bombardon 16 Rohrflute 8 Octave Fagotto* 16 Viola 8 Unison Off (from Ped 32ft) Celeste 8 Swell to Choir Bass Trumpet 16 Principal 4 Solo to Choir (from Gt) Open Flute 4 Tromba 8 Nazard 223 Shawm 4 Octave* 2 Choir to Pedal Gemshorn 2 Great to Pedal Tierce 135 Swell to Pedal * new stops, 2009 Solo to Pedal Photo: Chris Christodoulou

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