By the liberality of the Chapter, the completion and great enlargement
of the organ was effected in the year 1867. Messrs. Hill have
introduced a new swell of 13 stops throughout, with a pedal organ of
adequate dimensions. To this pedal organ the principal inhabitants of
the city of Ely contributed the important addition of a Sub-base of 32
feet tone, at a cost of upwards of L80. The whole instrument has 40
sounding stops, and it will be seen from an inspection of the list
that every stop, even to the clarionet, is complete and entire,
extending through the full compass of its manual. The tone of the full
organ, with swell coupled, is very grand. The reeds, like all the
stops of this class manufactured by Messrs. Hill, are positively
models of smoothness, equality, and power. The two 8 feet reeds of the
great, and the 16 feet reed, with the Horn, of the swell, are
specimens of which the builders may well be somewhat proud. All the
compound stops are very brilliant. Equal temperament has been applied
to the tuning.
GREAT ORGAN--CC to F in Alt.
Ft. Pipes.
1. Double Diapason, open
metal to GG, 12 feet
stopt wood below 16 54
2. Open Diapason, metal 8 54
3. Open Diapason, metal 8 54
4. Stopt Diapason, wood 8 54
5. Principal, metal 4 54
6. Harmonic Flute, metal
(vice Quint) 4 54
7. Twelfth, metal 2-2/3 54
8. Fifteenth, metal 2 54
9. Sesquialtera, iii ranks, metal -- 162
10. Mixture, iii ranks, metal -- 162
11. Posaune, metal 8 54
12. Trumpet, metal 8 54
13. Clarion, metal 4 54
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SWELL ORGAN--CC to F in Alt.
Ft. Pipes.
1. Double Diapason, open
metal to Gamut G, 6
feet, stopt wood below. 16 54
2. Open Diapason, metal 8 54
3. Salcional, metal 8 54
4. Stopt Diapason, wood 8 54
5. Principal, metal 4 54
6. Lieblich Flute, metal 4 54
7. Fifteenth, metal 2 54
8. Mixture, iv ranks 2 216
9. Double Trumpet, metal and wood 16 54
10. Horn, metal 8 54
11. Trumpet, metal 8 54
12. Oboe, metal 8 54
13. Clarion, metal 4 54
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CHOIR ORGAN--CC to F in Alt.
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