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Details of Cathedral, Bombay, India

Organ History
	Built by Bishop & Starr
Status
Rebuilt
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ”, 1877.

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	29	29	6	-

I. Choir ( CC-a3 58 notes)
1.	Dulciana	8
2.	Stopped Diapason	8
3.	German Flute	8
4.	Keraulophon	8
5.	Metallic Flute	4
6.	Principal	4
7.	Piccolo	2
8.	Cremona	8
i	Swell to Choir
ii	Swell sub-octave to Choir
II. Great ( CC-a3 58 notes)
9.	Open Diapason	8
10.	Bell Diapason	8
11.	Clarabella	8
12.	Principal	4
13.	Flute	4
14.	Twelfth	2 2/3
15.	Fifteenth	2
16.	Sesquialtera
17.	Trumpet	8
iii	Swell to Great
III. Swell ( CC-a3 58 notes)
18.	Double Diapason	16
19.	Open Diapason	8
20.	Stopped Diapason	8
21.	Principal	4
22.	Fifteenth	2
23.	Cornopean	8
24.	Hautboy	8
Pedal ( CCC-E 29 notes)
25.	Open Diapason	16
26.	Open Diapason	16
27.	Bourdon	16
28.	Principal	8
29.	Fifteenth	4
30.	Prepared for Reed
iv	Choir to Pedal
v	Great to Pedal
vi	Swell to Pedal

Organ History
1907	Built by Willis
Status
Unknown
Sources
Herbert Westerby - “The Complete Organ Recitalist”, 1927.
“Dictionary of Organs and Organists”, George Mate & Son, 1921.

Manuals	Stops	Ranks	Couplers	Action
3	53	-	-	P

List of Organists
1875-78	John Locke Gray (1843-1878)
1947-	Ivor Donald Campbell Ross (1912-)

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