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Details of Cathedral, Exeter, England


1665

Organ History
1665Built by John Loosemore
Rebuilt & enlarged by Speechly
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
331316T

I. Choir (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes)
1.Gamba8'metal.
2.Lieblich Gedact8'wood and metal.
3.Dulciana8'metal.
4.Wald Flute4'wood.
5.Gemshorn4'metal.
6.Corno di Bassetto8'metal.
iSwell to Choir
II. Great (Tracker GG,FF-f3 58 notes)
7.Double Diapason16'wood and metal.
8.Open Diapason8'metal.
9.Open Diapason8'metal.
10.Stopped Diapason8'wood and metal.
11.Clarabella8'wood.
12.Principal4'metal.
13.Flute Harmonique4'metal.
14.Twelfth2 2/3'metal.
15.Fifteenth2'metal.
16.*MixtureIImetal.
17.*MixtureIIImetal.
18.Trumpet8'metal.
19.Clarion4'metal.
iiSwell to Great
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 54 notes)
20.Double Diapason16'wood and metal.
21.Open Diapason8'metal.
22.Stopped Diapason8'wood and metal.
23.Salicional8'metal.
24.Octave4'metal.
25.MixtureIIImetal.
26.Cornopean8'metal.
27.Oboe8'metal.
28.Clarion4'metal.
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes)
29.Open Diapason32'metal.
30.Open Diapason16'metal.
31.Bourdon16'wood.
iiiSwell to Pedal
ivGreat to Pedal, GG
vGreat to Pedal, CC
viChoir to Pedal

1891

Organ History
1891Rebuilt by Willis
Sources
Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
457-13P



List of Organists
1584-86Matthew Godwin (1568-1586)
1591Arthur Cooke
1591-1601Arthur Cock (-1604)
1609-40John Lugg (1587-1655)
1611-44Edward Gibbons (1568-1650)
1665-74Theodore Coleby
1674-c1688Henry Hall (1655-1707)
1686Peter Passmore
c1686-93John White
1694-1741Richard Henman
1741-53John Silvester
1753-77Richard Langdon (1730-1803)
1777-1803William Jackson (1730-1803)
1804-35James Paddon (1768-1835)
1835-41S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
1842-76Alfred Angel (1816-1876)
1876-1919Daniel J. Wood (1849-1919)
1919-27Ernest Bullock (1890-1979)
1928-33Thomas Armstrong (1898-1994)
1933A. W. Willcocks
1933-52Alfred Wilcock (1887-1953)
1953-57Reginald Moore (1910-1968)
1957-72Lionel Dakers (1924-2003)
1973-98Lucian Nethsingha (1936-2021)
1999-2016Andrew Millington (1952-)
2016-Timothy Noon
OAWalter Hoyle (1873-)

List of Assistant Organists
Edward Roberts West
1856H. G. Halfyard (1835-)
1861-68Graham Clarke
1861-69William Pinney (1845-1906)
-1880Edward Vinnicombe (1847-1915)
1881-83Ernest Slater (1860-1936)
1899Frederick Gandy Bradford (1887-1962)
1900-06Arnold D. Culley (1867-1947)
1906-18F. J. Pinn (1877-1927)
T. Washington Metcalfe (1884-)
1929-37W. Harry Gabb (1909-1995)
1937-40John Hind (1916-1984)
1945-46John Hind (1916-1984)
1946-48Edgar S. Landen (1923-)
1951-54Howard Stephens (1921-)
1956-61Stuart Marston Smith
1961-69Christopher Gower (1939-)
1969-2010Paul Morgan
2010-16David Davies
2016-Timothy Parsons

List of Organ Scholars
David Thorne (1951-)
1993-95Benjamin Frost
2016Edward Jones
2018Hamish Fraser

List of Other Organists
Thomas Washington-Metcalfe (1884-)
1994-2016Stephen Tanner