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About the Organ
 | The organ was completed in 1909, when the local organ building firm of Nicholson’s was owned by Arthur Whinfield. He was an inventive engineer who wanted this organ to be very flexible and easy to play. In fact, the British Institute of Organ Studies awarded an historic certificate to the organ in 2008 in recognition of its experimental and unusual Edwardian design.
The organ has three keyboards for the hands to play and a pedal board for the feet. It has 9 different sounds or stops and each stop has 58 pipes so that is 522 pipes. As part of the restoration programme, two new stops will be added, using historically correct pipe work, taking the total to 638 pipes. This will help the organ deliver more impact in the church. |
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Distinctive Console
 | From the outside, the organ console where the organist controls the organ is distinctive.
Instead of stops to pull to activate sounds on the organ (hence the phrase “pulling out all the stops) there are ivory stop keys which slide up or down.
Above each stop key is a black draw knob which is used in Whinfield’s patented combination system of 1900. The organist can pre-select a combination of stops before playing and then, with a pedal lever, suddenly move onto the sounds selected by the black draw stops. |
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