{"id":5715,"date":"2025-06-10T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/?page_id=5715"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:24:18","slug":"the-organ","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/?page_id=5715","title":{"rendered":"The Organ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1854 the <em>Ecclesiologist<\/em> commented favourably on the organ at S Paul\u2019s, referring to its \u2018richly coloured pipes\u2019. This instrument was made by a well-known Northamptonshire builder, George Maydell Holdich. By 1890 the organ was in a bad condition and a new four manual instrument by George Hunter of Clapham (originally water driven) was installed, built to the specifications of the then organ scholar at S Paul\u2019s, Father James H. Le Breton Girdlestone. It was opened in August 1893, but still with only three manuals operating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During 1968 &#8211; 70 the organ was renovated and augmented by the additionof stops onthe Great and the Pedal Trombone. Owing to water damage, the trombone was out of action between 1987 and 1999, when it was reinstated by Collin Divall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organ\u00a0Specification<\/strong>:<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Swell         \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br>Gedact\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16<br>Open Diapason\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>Stopped Diapason\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>Vox Celeste <strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 8<br>Salicional\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>Principal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0<\/strong><br>Double\u00a0Diapason\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16<br>Large\u00a0Open\u00a0Diapason  <strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>    \u00a0\u00a0  8<br>Small\u00a0Open\u00a0Diapason    <strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>  \u00a0\u00a0  8<br>Stopped\u00a0Diapason\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>Hohl\u00a0Flute\u00a0\u00a0  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>Principal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4<br>Flute\u00a0Harmonic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4<br>Twelfth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2\u2154<br>Fifteenth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<br>Mixture\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 II<br>Trumpet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Sub\u00a0Octave\u00a0Choir\u00a0to\u00a0Great\u00a0    \u00a0\u00a0 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wp-block-paragraph\">Four\u00a0pistons\u00a0to\u00a0Swell<br>Four\u00a0pistons\u00a0to\u00a0Great<br>Three\u00a0pistons\u00a0to\u00a0Choir<br>Swell\u00a0tremulant\u00a0piston<br>Great\u00a0to\u00a0Pedal\u00a0piston\u00a0<br>Four\u00a0toe\u00a0pistons\u00a0to\u00a0Gt\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Pedal\u00a0comb.<br>Four\u00a0toe\u00a0pistons\u00a0to\u00a0Sw\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Pedal\u00a0comb.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1854 the Ecclesiologist commented favourably on the organ at S Paul\u2019s, referring to its \u2018richly coloured pipes\u2019. This instrument was made by a well-known Northamptonshire builder, George Maydell Holdich. By 1890 the organ was in a bad condition and a new four manual instrument by George Hunter of Clapham (originally water driven) was installed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":279,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5715\/revisions\/5722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpaulschurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}