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Updated 31October 2002

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The tonal specification was drawn up by Iain Stinson in consultation with staff at Phoenix Organs.  Dave Bostock of Phoenix Organs installed and finished the organ on-site. The console was built by Renatus of Bideford Devon to a design developed specially for Phoenix.
The organ was installed in May 2001 and is sited in the study (size approximately 15' x 11' x 8' high).

Registration Aids
8 independent memories for piston settings
8 thumb pistons for each of Swell, Great & Choir
8 General thumb pistons
8 toe pistons for Pedal
Reversible thumb pistons for Ch to Ped, Grt to Ped, Sw to Ped, Sw to Grt, Sw to Choir, Choir to Grt
Reversible toe pistons for Sw to Grt, Grt to Ped, Sw to Ped
Stop sequencer system with 99 pages and 16 steps per page
Sequencer Advance thumb piston in each key slip
Sequencer Advance toe piston
Sequencer Back thumb piston (in Choir key slip)
16 Sequencer pistons (with indicator LEDs) above Swell
Sequencer pistons act as additional general pistons when the sequencer is not active
Setter and General Cancel thumb pistons
The registration aids are not blind - the stops illuminate when pistons and  sequencer operate.

Phoenix Control Panel

Volume Control
Fine Tuning
Select piston memory
Transposer
Reverberation (time and level)
Select specification from four specifications (using built-in sample sets)
Select temperament from: Equal, Werckmeister, Valloti, or Silbermann
Stop Sequencer On/Off
Lock piston memory

Amplification etc.
8 80watt organ amplifiers
Lexicon MX 100 Reverberation Unit  (controlled from the Phoenix Control Panel )
6 Mission M72 speaker units for manuals
2 Mission M72 units and a Paradigm PS 1000 powered subwoofer system for Pedals

Connections
Midi IN
Midi  OUT PRE pre-coupled data  for recording to a sequencer - the data sent includes the pre-coupled key data, stop changes and expression data
MIDI OUT POST post-coupled for connecting to a sound module - only post-coupled key and expression data controlled by MIDI couplers is sent
Stereo audio IN
 Stereo audio OUT (composite of all audio channels)
2 Headphone sockets
Voicing Port (serial)

 

Specification
This is the primary specification of the organ: alternative specifications assign other voices to some stops.

Great Organ
(14 stops, 19 ranks, 3 soundcards)
16 Contra Geigen
8 Open Diapason I
8 Open Diapason II
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Salicional
4 Octave
4 Wald Flute
2 2/3 Octave Quint
2 Super Octave
1 3/5 Seventeenth
Fourniture IV 19 22 26 29
Cymbale III 26 29 33
16 Double Trumpet
8 Trumpet

Choir Organ (enclosed)
(14 stops, 15 ranks, 3 soundcards)
8 Harmonic Flute
8 Rohr Flute
8 Viol d'Orchestra
8 Erzahler Celestes II
4 Concert Flute
2 2/3 Nazard
2 Block Flute
1 3/5 Tierce
1 1/3 Larigot
1 Recorder
8 Clarinet
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Trompette Militaire
8 Tuba

Swell Organ (enclosed)
(14 stops, 17 ranks, 3 soundcards)
16 Quintaton
8 Geigen Diapason
8 Viola Da Gamba
8 Lieblich Gedackt
8 Voix Celestes II
4 Gemshorn
4 Rohr Flute
2 Fifteenth
Mixture III
16 Contra Fagotto
8 Hautboy
8 Trompette
8 Cornopean
4 Clarion

Pedal Organ
(13 stops, 16 ranks, 1 soundcard)
32 Contra Bourdon
16 Diapason
16 Bourdon
16 Violone
8 Octave
8 Bass Flute
4 Fifteenth
4 Flute
Mixture IV
32 Contra Posaune
16 Basson
16 Trombone
8 Trumpet
Great & Pedal Combinations Coupled

Couplers
Midi to Swell
Midi to Great
Midi to Choir
Midi to Pedal
Swell Tremulant
Choir Tremulant
Swell Octave
Swell Sub Octave
Choir Octave
Choir Sub Octave
Swell to Choir
Swell to Great
Choir to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Choir to Pedal

   

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