HERE 2
Organ Biography > Places and Organs > England > Halifax > St. John-the-Baptist’s Minster
Organ History | |
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1766 | Built by Snetzler |
Rebuilt & enlarged | |
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 |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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3 | 25 | 25 | - | T |
I. Choir (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
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1. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
2. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
3. | Dulciana | 8' | (to Gamut G) |
4. | Principal | 4' | |
5. | Flute | 4' | |
6. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
II. Great (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
7. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
8. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
9. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
10. | Principal | 4' | |
11. | Twelfth | 2 2/3' | |
12. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
13. | Sesquialtera | IV (2') | |
14. | Mixture | III (1') | |
15. | Mounted Cornet | V (8') | (to Middle c1) |
16. | Trumpet | 8' | |
17. | Clarion | 4' | |
III. Swell (Tracker CC-g3 56 notes) | |||
18. | Double Diapason | 16' | |
19. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
20. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
21. | Principal | 4' | |
22. | Sesquialtera | III (2 2/3') | |
23. | Cornopean | 8' | |
24. | Oboe | 8' | |
Pedal (Tracker CCC-f 30 notes) | |||
25. | Great Open Diapason | 21 2/3' | wood. |
Organ History | |
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1878 | Restored by Hill |
1897 | Restored by Abbott & Smith |
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 |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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4 | 49 | - | 11 | - |
Sources | |
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Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist” - Musical Opinion, 1927, London |
Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
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4 | 56 | - | 13 | - |
List of Organists | |
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1757-66 | William Herschel (1738-1822) |
1766-1819 | Thomas Stopford |
1819-34 | John Houldsworth (-1838) |
1835-38 | Robert Sharp |
1838-62 | Joseph Henry Frobisher |
1862-68 | H. E. Moore |
1868-82 | J. V. Roberts (1841-1920) |
1882 | Fred Bentley (1848-1929) |
1883-84 | John Shepherd Liddle (1853-1921) |
1884-97 | W. H. Garland (1852-1897) |
1897 | George Milligan |
1897-1911 | F. de G. English (1864-1924) |
1912-15 | Joseph Soar (1878-1971) |
1915-24 | F. de G. English (1864-1924) |
1924-29 | Thomas E. Pearson (1880-1929) |
1924-37 | Herbert Bardgett (1894-1962) |
1929-37 | R. Tustin Baker (1900-1966) |
1937-38 | Kenneth F. Malcolmson (1911-) |
1939-41 | Vernon Rhodes (1898-) |
1941-63 | Shackleton Pollard (1887-) |
1963-65 | Robert Smith |
1965-68 | Neil Wade |
1968-70 | Cyril Baker (1928-) |
1971- | Philip Tordoff (1937-) |
List of Assistant Organists | |
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1924-29 | William Dean Pearson (1905-2000) |
1969 | David Barker |