St Barnabas - Opus 2000 - technical information

SUMMARY/TOTALS

           56 Stops  -  36 Ranks

          147 Console Registers  (83 Drawknobs; 20 Coupler Tablets)

          2,181  Pipes    A digital supplement equivalent to another 1043 pipes

• Great To Pedal       8’ – 4’   2 Tablets 

• Swell To Pedal        8’ – 4’   2 Tablets               

• Choir To Pedal        8’ – 4’   2 Tablets 

• Nave To Pedal        8'  1 Tablet              

•  Swell-to-Great      16’ – 8’ – 4’   3 Tablets

•  Swell-to-Swell       16’ – 4’  Unison Off  3 Knobs, intra-divisional

•  Swell-to-Choir       16’ – 8’ – 4’   3 Tablets

•  Choir-to-Great      16’ – 8’ – 4’   3 Tablets

•  Choir-to-Choir       16’ – 4’  Unison Off    3 Knobs, intra-divisional

•  Great Silent            (unison off)   1 Knob, intra-divisional

• Nave-on-Great  Tablet

• Nave-on-Choir   Tablet

• Nave-on Swell    Tablet

• Manual Transfer (Great becomes Choir)   Tablet

•  Chancel Swell Shades off (Closed)  Tablet    

 Definitions: 

• Stop      A complete set of pipes dedicated to a single manual, or keyboard and corresponding to a dedicated stop knob. This           set of pipes may be comprised of 61 notes (in manual divisions,) or 32 notes in the pedal organ. It is important to note that a stop may be constructed of more pipes in the case of a Mixture, where three or four pipes sound per keyboard note played. Often this term is incorrectly applied to a console register that is unified from another stop, as an extended register such as the 16’ Gemshorn.

• Rank    The term applied to a stop of a specific pitch level. Usually considered the same in number as the stops of a given division. Except in the case of mixtures, where multiple ranks play as a single stop.

• Console Register    All stop controls (drawknobs) and coupler controls (tablets and drawknobs) are considered Console Registers.  It is a term applied to any device attached to the console that activates a stop control, coupler or registration circuit (such as swell shade controls).

Great Main Chest:  

7 stops;  5 – Pitman, 2 – Unit Actions.  

61 notes, 3 ½” w/c

Top channel pitman chest with built-in Schwimmer regulator

Choir Main Chest:

6 stops;  4 – Pitman, 2 – Unit Action.

61 notes, 3 ½” w/c

Top-channel Pitman, Schwimmer regulator installed.

Swell Main Chest No. 1:

7 stops;  5 – Pitman, 2 – Unit Action.

61 notes, 4 ½”  w/c

Top-channel Pitman, Schwimmer regulator installed.

Swell Main Chest No. 2:    Walkboard bridges chests

3 stops;  Unit Action.                                                                                   

61 notes,  4 ½”  w/c

Antiphonal Chests:

3 stops;  Unit Action.

61 notes, 4 ¼”  w/c

 Great Organ

            16' Gemshorn   73 notes  (original 1954 Moller)

            Principal Chorus - new  70% tin

            Harmonic Flute - new 50% tin, to special scaling. Stopped wood bass octave

            16-8-4'  Trumpet - 85 notes - new. German schallots, darker than the Swell.

 Choir Organ

            Flauto Dolce is new (Spitzflöte)

            Celeste is old Erzähler – re-scaled to compliment new Flauto Dolce   (original Moller 1952)  

            Trianglular Flute cleaned & repaired as needed   (original Moller 1954)

            Spitz Principal & Larigot are new

            Clarinet revoiced  to 3 ½” w/c new tongues and slide tuners.  (Original Aeolian 1924)

 Nave (Antiphonal) Organ

             Principal is new  (73 notes)  Spotted metal - 50% tin

            Rohrflöte is ex Moller 1954 Swell, reconstructed. NEW 1-12 capped metal (70% Tin)

            Trompette is new - using late Aeolian-Skinner eschallots. (German)  1-12 standing, 13-61 en chamade.

 Swell Organ

             16’ Bourdon 1-24 Existing Wood – 1954 Moller

              8 ' Gedeckt new common metal

              8' Strings and 4' Principal are reconstructed from the 1954 Moller.

            Koppelflöte, Nasard, Spillflöte, and Plein Jeu are new

            Bombarde (12 notes) is new, 13-61 is a Festival Trompette from a 1952 Moller, with new shallots and tongues. Voiced brightly.

            Rohr Shalmei is new

Pedal Organ

            Gemshorn is existing. 

            Sub Bass and its chest is from a 1924 AEolian organ. Chests and pipes were completely rebuilt. 12 new pipes were built from an old set of Aeolian Gedeckt pipes, and sit on a new strip chest.

             Principal 1-12 is new – former Great Diapason reconstructed for pipes not en façade

             Choral Bass -  New pipes for façade (1-10) - former pedal Principal pipes reconstructed for pipes not en façade 

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Ahlborn-Galanti Digital  Module

            The electronic stops in the organ are generated from the Ahlborn module. This unit receives MIDI signals from the Multisystem, and plays selected stops through speakers located in the Swell chamber and behind the Great windchest. All stops in this module are custom-configured for this installation, and voiced to blend with the pipework in each division. 

For more information, see our page on Digital Stops

          Solid State Logic Control System 

1.   Multisystem

                 Processor & plane installed in console

                  Wiring to main chamber, feeds from main chamber to antiphonal chests.

                  Transposer +/- 7 semitones  

                  Simple LAN (computer grade 8) cable connects processors.  

2.   Capture for Multisystem 

                   25 Levels of memory

                   Scope^®  feature – allows organist to assign piston identities

                   Settable Crescendo (four levels) and Tutti (two)

3.   MIDI for Multisystem

                 Seamlessly integrated in the Multisystem package.

4.   Yamaha MDF - 3

Yamaha MDF3 (MIDI Data Filer) is capable of recording approximately 80,000 "notes" worth of MIDI data on a single 3.5" floppy disk. The operation MDF3 is clear and concise, it is no more complicated than a cassette recorder.