Lancaster Cathedral
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The Old Console
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New East-facing
Terraced Console
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The Primary actions have been causing problems for a long time due to their poor design and manufacture,
causing wind to leak from valve to valve |
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| Soundboard Grids after flooding and shooting |
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Re-assembling Soundboards |
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| Re-assembling Soundboards |
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| Releathering the Internal Pulldown Motors |
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| Soundboard & Motors back together |
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The Table, Bearers & Slides |
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Colloidal Graphite
applied to the slides
for lubrication |
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Upperboards re-instated |
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The badly designed Primary Actions have now been replaced
with Large Compound Magnets (Coffin Magnets)
to enable extremely quick note repetition |
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| Worn out Ribbed Drawstop Motors caused by having no quirk |
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| Releathering and ensuring a correct quirk |
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| Following reassembly and thorough testing |
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| Remaking Floating Frames |
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Remaking Bellows Top |
The Ribs having been leathered |
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Working on the Bellows Ribs |
Nearing completion |
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The joining point of the main bellows |
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The two halves reunited |
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| Re-installing a waste pallet |
The Bellowswork ready to be returned to the Organ |
Rusted Tuning Pieces from the Choir Flauto Traverso |
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New Tuning Pieces of spotted metal fitted to the Flauto Traverso |
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Over 30 years of dust and dirt on a Pipe Stopper |
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Making new Tuning Slides |
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Wildlife and debris living inside the reeds |
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| The Trombone resonators following cleaning and reapair |
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The 1970s console dismantled
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| Manufacture of the new Console |
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| Bushing the Terraces |
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| Wiring the Keys & Drawstops |
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| Fitting the Solid State |
The completed Console |
In situ on the gallery
with a view of the High Altar |
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Some details
The 1889 Organ by Ainscough of Preston was rebuilt in 2008 & 2009. The interior of the instrument was suffering from a level of dirt which had affected the speech of many pipes. The leatherwork, much of it original, was in a parlous state. The electro-mechanical switching system had also become unreliable. This instrument was comprehensively Cleaned and Overhauled with the re-leathering of the reservoirs and total redesign of soundboard actions, replacement of the transmission and note-switching systems.
The organ is situated in two cases on a west gallery in the cathedral and is, tonally, one of the best instruments in this part of the country: specifically, the Swell reeds are spectacular in the glorious acoustic of this fine Neo-gothic Cathedral. Due to the poor construction quality of the 1970s console, it was decided to replace this with a new East-facing terraced console.
Specification of the organ prior to rebuilding
| GREAT ORGAN |
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PEDAL ORGAN |
| 1. |
Double Diapason |
16 |
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28. |
Open Diapason |
16 |
| 2. |
Major Diapason |
8 |
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29. |
Contra Bass |
16 |
| 3. |
Minor Diapason |
8 |
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30. |
Bourdon |
16 |
| 4. |
Hohl Flute |
8 |
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31. |
Principal |
8 |
| 5. |
Principal |
4 |
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32. |
Trombone |
16 |
| 6. |
Harmonic Flute |
4 |
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| 7. |
Twelfth |
2 2/3 |
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| 8. |
Fifteenth |
2 |
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| 9. |
Mixture |
III & IV |
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| 10. |
Trumpet |
8 |
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| SWELL ORGAN (enclosed) |
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COUPLERS |
| 11. |
Bourdon |
16 |
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Great to Pedal |
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| 12. |
Open Diapason |
8 |
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Swell to Pedal |
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| 13. |
Salicional |
8 |
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Swell to Great |
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| 14. |
Voix Céleste (TC) |
8 |
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Swell to Choir |
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| 15. |
Principal |
4 |
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Choir to Pedal |
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| 16. |
Mixture |
II & III |
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Great & Pedal combs |
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| 17. |
Horn |
8 |
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| 18. |
Oboe |
8 |
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| 19. |
Vox humana |
8 |
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| 20. |
Clarion |
4 |
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Swell Octave |
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Tremulant |
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Reeds Sub Octave |
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| CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed) |
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ACCESSORIES |
| 21. |
Lieblich Gedackt |
8 |
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4 Thumb Pistons to Swell |
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Gamba |
8 |
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4 Thumb Piston to Great |
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Dulciana |
8 |
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3 Thumb Pistons to Choir |
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Flauto Traverso |
4 |
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4 Toe Pistons Pedal |
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Salicet |
4 |
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4 Toe Pistons Swell |
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Orchestral Oboe |
8 |
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Great to Pedal reversible Toe Piston |
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Clarinet |
8 |
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Swell to Great reversible Thumb Piston |
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Choir Octave |
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Great to Pedal reversible Thumb Piston |
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Tremulant |
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2009 Specification of the organ
| GREAT ORGAN |
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CHOIR ORGAN (enclosed) |
| 1. |
Double Open Diapason |
16 |
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23. |
Lieblich Gedackt |
8 |
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Open Diapason No. 1 |
8 |
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24. |
Gamba |
8 |
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Open Diapason No. 2 |
8 |
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25. |
Dulciana |
8 |
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Hohl Flute |
8 |
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26. |
Flauto Traverso |
4 |
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Principal |
4 |
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27. |
Salicet |
4 |
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Harmonic Flute |
4 |
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28. |
Piccolo |
2 |
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Twelfth |
2 2/3 |
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29. |
Clarinet |
8 |
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Fifteenth |
2 |
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30. |
Trumpet (Gt.) |
8 |
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Mixture |
3&4 rks |
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31. |
Trompette (Gt.) |
prepared |
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Trumpet |
8 |
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Tremolo |
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Trompette |
prepared |
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Choir Octave |
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Swell to Great |
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Swell to Choir |
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| SWELL ORGAN (enclosed) |
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PEDAL ORGAN |
| 12. |
Bourdon |
16 |
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32. |
Resultant Bass |
32 |
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Open Diapason |
8 |
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33. |
Open Diapason |
16 |
| 14. |
Flute |
8 |
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Crontra Bass |
16 |
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Salicional |
8 |
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Sub Bass |
16 |
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Voix Céleste (TC) |
8 |
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36. |
Bourdon |
16 |
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Principal |
4 |
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Principal |
8 |
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Mixture |
2&3 rks |
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38. |
Bass Flute |
8 |
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Vox Humana |
8 |
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39. |
Quint |
51/3 |
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Oboe |
8 |
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Octave Flute |
4 |
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Horn |
8 |
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Harmonics |
32 |
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Clarion |
4 |
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Trombone |
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Tremulant |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Swell Octave |
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Great to Pedal |
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Reeds Sub Octave |
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Choir to Pedal |
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| Six Divisional Thumb Pistons to Swell, Great & Choir |
| Six Divisional Toe Levers to Swell & Pedal |
| Six General Thumb Pistons |
| Reversible pistons for couplers |
| 250 levels of memory |
| Stepper & Sequencer with Advance & Retard Thumb Pistons & Toe Levers |
| Transposer |
Full MIDI Capability |
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