St James' Episcopal Church, Florence, Italy
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Interior of the Church
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The current Organ
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A View of proposed Casework
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A View of proposed Casework
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| Cross Sections | | Swell Soundboards |
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| Preparing & Machining timber for the Building Frame |
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| | Solid Poplar used throughout | | Making Mortice Joints |
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The Swell Soundboards in situ
together with Passageboards
and Solenoid Trays |
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Bellows & Great Soundboards
in situ and positioning
of Swell Shutter Frames |
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The Side and Rear
of the Swell Box |
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| Manufacture of the Swell Shutters & fitting them to the Shutter Frame |
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Fitted to the Box |
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Swell Box Chancel Front completed
and both Shutter Fronts in situ |
Swell Soundboards
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Swell High Pressure Reeds Soundboard
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Laying up the pallets
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Positioning Pedal Rollerboard
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Preparing Bellows Wells
& Floating Frames
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Preparing Bellows Ribs
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Positioning the Bellows
within the organ
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| Applying leather to the ribs |
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| Approaching completion |
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| Manufacture of letterbox wind trunking |
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| Trunking ready for carrying wind around the organ |
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| Trunking fitted and the wind is on! |
Motor boards being made for the Floating Lever Machine
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Being Leathered
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| The Pedal 16' Bourdon & 16' Contrebasse (both with inverted mouths) awaiting voicing |
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| The Great Principal 4' on the Flue Voicing Machine |
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| The Great Open Diapason |
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The Great Flue Chorus
(8; 4; 22/3; 2) |
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| Lower Casework & Console Case in Solid Oak |
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Upper Casework being constructed |
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| Key action squares and Pendulums |
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Pedal Jacks and Rollerboard |
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Swell keys |
show/hide construction photographs (updated)
Some details
Henry Willis & Sons is proud to announce that a new organ of 25 stops over two manuals and pedals is now being constructed for Saint James's Episcopal Church, Florence, Italy, for dedication at Christmas 2008 to mark the centenery of the church.
The Manual and Pedal key actions will be mechanical with the addition of the Willis patented Floating Lever for the couplers, providing both Octaves Graves & Octaves Aigues for the Great Organ. The drawstop action is to be electric.
Specification of the proposed organ
| GREAT ORGAN |
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PEDAL |
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Double Diapason |
16 |
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20. |
Contrebasse |
16 |
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Open Diapason |
8 |
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21. |
Bourdon |
16 |
| 3. |
Viola de Gamba |
8 |
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22. |
Violone |
8 |
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Flûte Harmonique |
8 |
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23. |
Bass Flute |
8 |
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Principal |
4 |
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24. |
Ophicleide |
16 |
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Twelfth |
2 2/3 |
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Trombone |
8 |
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Fifteenth |
2 |
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| 8. |
Mixture |
4 rks |
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| 9. |
Bombarde |
8 |
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| SWELL ORGAN |
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COUPLERS |
| 10. |
Lieblich Gedact |
8 |
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Swell to Great |
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Salicional |
8 |
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Swell Octave |
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Voix Céleste |
8 |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Gemshorn |
4 |
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Great to Pedal |
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Twelfth |
2 2/3 |
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Octaves Aigues (Great) |
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Flageolet |
2 |
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Octaves Graves (Great) |
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Mixture |
3 rks |
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(Willis
Floating Lever action to Couplers) |
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Waldhorn |
16 |
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Cornopean |
8 |
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Oboe |
8 |
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Tremolo |
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| Mechanical Action to Manuals & Pedals |
| Electric Drawstop action |
show/hide specifcation of the organ
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