St James' Episcopal Church, Florence, Italy
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Interior of the Church
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The Old Organ
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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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Fitting Slider Seals to the
underside of the upperboards
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Great Slider Solenoids fitted
& upperboards being positioned
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The Rackboards are pricked
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and bored to
support the pipes
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| The first pipes are installed in the organ
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| Making Flying Rackboards for the Great Bombarde
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| The Cornopean in the Swell
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Conveyances are made for carrying wind from the
Great Soundboards to the Front Pipes |
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 partially assembled Floating Lever Machine |
Levers assembled and regulated
ready for fitting
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to the stack
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Floating Lever Machine
connected up |
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| The Pedal 16' Bourdon & 16' Contrebasse (both with inverted mouths) awaiting voicing |
preparing the stoppers
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Great Harmonic Flute
& Double Diapason
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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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| Fitting up the Great Bombarde |
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| Bombarde resonators |
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Bombarde on the voicing machine |
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| Swell Cornopean ready to be put in the organ |
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Swell Gemshorn |
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Leathering membranes, making purses & valves
and assembling Pedal off-note chests |
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| Assembled |
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and winded |
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| Pedal Contrebasse |
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| Lower Casework & Console Case in Solid Oak |
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Upper Casework being constructed |
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| The Casework being erected and attached to the organ |
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| Key action squares and Pendulums |
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Pedal Jacks and Rollerboard |
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| Swell Keys |
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Console Chassis |
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Cedar cut ready
for making into trackers |
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Being fed into the
Tracker-making machine |
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| Emerging round sectioned |
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Ready to be fitted with wires, then whipped |
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Some wire ends are threaded
using a thread rolling machine |
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| rolling the thread |
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the finished product |
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| Connecting up the console actions |
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Main Soundboard actions |
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| Connecting the Rollerboards |
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Kneeboard with Toe Levers fitted
also showing console actions
running under the floor |
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| Key Cheeks, Keyslips and drawstop jambs prior to polishing |
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Drawstop Solenoid frames |
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| The Organ arrives at the Church in Italy |
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| Piece by piece the organ is carefully reassembled |
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| The Floating Lever machine is connected |
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| Case Pipes of Pure Tin being installed |
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Some details
Henry Willis & Sons is proud to announce that the new organ of 25 stops over two manuals and pedals for Saint James's Episcopal Church, Florence, Italy, was installed in the church in the early part of 2009.
The Manual and Pedal key actions are 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 electric.
Specification of the organ
| GREAT ORGAN |
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PEDAL |
| 1. |
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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| 18. |
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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