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Features:
Purpose of organ:
1: To offer full and versatile accompaniment to the Cathedral Choir.
2: To lead vigorously the East End liturgy: provision of strong Great chorus to encourage singing by clergy etc in sanctuary and congregation in very front rows of Cathedral: must assist Grand organ to integrate leading of hymns sung by very large congregations.
3: Provide some antiphonal fortissimo reed effects with the Grand organ: Spanish chamades to add impact and éclat without brute power.
4: Provide beautiful quiet effects to accompany liturgy: notably warm 8' flues, quiet solo reeds and colourful Great mutations. Organ must be beautiful to listen to.
5: Effect of individual stops must be as exquisite as those Willis sounds from the Grand organ, but quite different.
6: Current Lewis/Harrison Apse organ does not have any stops of requisite scale which could be reused: suggest it is sold/retired suitably.
Suggested builder: Rieger: for unrivalled beauty of choruses, flutes, spanish reeds, casework, and superb action. But other reeds must be English, and scales must be generous, particularly in basses, to ensure adequate warmth. Should sound like a smaller version of St Giles' Edinburgh.
Designed to occupy two new cases in same position as current cases: each would contain façade pipes from Pedal and Great 16/8' diapasons.
Cases would be tall enough to house full-length 16' diapasons and 32' stopped pedal pipes (this bourdon rank forms outer case sides).
Façade pipes to be elegantly and dramatically displayed: this is after all the only pipe façade in the Cathedral.
Left case would contain Great, enclosed Solo (under Great) and Pedal C# side, Right would contain Swell, and Pedal C side.
Chamade reeds are split again by C and C# side on either case, located to lie on top of each case, pointing west.
Pressures: Pedal: 3 1/4"; Great & Swell: 3 1/2"; Solo: 4".
Ideally, 3-manual terraced console would be mechanical, located between but forward of both cases, looking west. But could be electric.
Additional 4' manual electric console to be built to control both Apse and West organs entirely: could be in current Apse console position.
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