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© DDOA 2012

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Featured Organ

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GREAT ORGAN - middle keyboard

SWELL ORGAN - top keyboard (pipes in expressive swell box)  

Double Diapason

Open Diapason

Clarabella Treble

Principal

Flute

Twelfth

Fifteenth

Sesquialtera 2-3 ranks Mixture 3 ranks  

Trumpet

 

Double Diapason (Tenor-C)

Open Diapason

Stop Diapason

Principal

Fifteenth

Twenty Second

Cornopean

Oboe (Tenor-C)

[16]

[8]

[8]

[4]

[4]

[2-2/3]

[2]

 

 

[8]

[16]

[8]

[8]

[4]

[2]

[1]

[8]

[8]  

Three composition pedals to Great Organ; pedal lever to Trombone on/off
Balanced swell (expression) pedal on RH side of toe board
Manual action tracker (ie mechanical) ; Pedal action pneumatic
Manual compass 54 notes ; Pedal compass 30 notes
Pedalboard straight & slightly concave

* Stops marked thus (together with the Gothic casework) represent the complete 1853 Holt organ, the Viol de Gamba alone having been removed in 1992 to make way for the new Mixture. This rank was added to the Choir Organ in 1998 by E R Stow.

PEDAL ORGAN -

CHOIR ORGAN - lowest keyboard

Open Diapason

Bourdon

Trombone

 

Viol de Gamba

Stop Diapason

Flute

Flageolet

Clarionette (Tenor-C)

[16]

[16]

[16]

 

 

[8]

[8]

[4]

[2]

 [8]

 

COUPLERS

Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Choir to Pedal Swell to Great Swell to Choir

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Information sourced from

Belper Parish Church and its Organs

By

R. Tomkins

And the author’s collection

(W. H. Attenborough)

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St. Peter’s, Belper

  The organ was built by William Holt, Bradford in 1853 replacing a 7 stop organ that could have been by Snetzler.  The opening on  December 22nd the was a ‘Full Cathedral’ service given by Leeds Parish Church choir. The organ was of 2 manuals costing  300 Guineas (£315). The case of the present organ is the original case although it was later extended backwards.

 

  In 1873 Radcliffe & Sagar enlarged the organ, providing a new console (still in use), increasing the swell organ from 42 to 54 notes and adding the Stop Diapason and Oboe. A 4 stop choir organ was also installed. In 1902 J.H.Adkins (Derby) carried out a mainly cosmetic ‘restoration’.

 

  In 1938 the organ was decommissioned in favour of a Hammond Organ.

 

  By  the 1970’s thoughts turned to re-commissioning the organ. This was achieved in 1978 using volunteer labour under the direction of Edmund Stow (who turned professional organ builder in 1995).

 

  Further modifications were undertaken by Wood of Huddersfield in 1992 which included the addition of a Trombone to the pedal organ. In 1998 Edmund Stow undertook further work.

ST. PETER'S, BELPER : ORGAN SPECIFICATION