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Saint Gregory the Great, Northampton

Sunday Mass Times:
Saturday, 6.00 pm, Sunday 9.00 am (with children's liturgy and music group) Sunday 11.00 am (with choir)
Priest-in-Charge: Fr Andrew Behrens (01604) 713015

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work in Progress

The swell soundboard has a clamp made which will act as the soundboard for the reed stop.

Organs at St Gregory’s

This complicated jig accurately drills out the wood for the clamp which will be attached to the back of the Swell soundboard, and carry the pipes for the reed stop. The exact design of the reed pipes has been a complicated business, as it must blend in appropriately with the French voicing of the rest of the organ. In larger organs there would be several reed stops, each serving different purposes in the overall sound. The risk of trying to produce a compromise in one stop is that none of the objectives will be adequately met. However, we hope that what is being specially made, modelled on a stop at Farnborough Abbey, will provide all that we need.

Pipes or Chips
The replacement
The Cost
The organ at Grazeley
Work in Progress
Penitential Soundboards
The bellows in bits
Pneumatic motors
Stripping the soundboards
Casework at St Gregory's
Richard in his workshop
Pouring glue
Great soundboard
Swell soundboard
Case re-polished
Swell box in workshop
Building frame in workshop
Clamp for Trompette
Preparing Clamp
Lifting up to gallery
Soundboards up in the air
Bourdon soundboard
Scorching
Making platform
1st pipe in chamber
Organ bits in Church
Bob the Blower
Great soundboard in the air
Soundboards in place
Swell box being installed
Trompette Pipe
Fitting the console
Jamb - no Jerusalem
Getting the wind up
Neat wiring
Rack of Trompette
The pipes arrive
Console wired
The Wind in the Bellows
The first working rank
Swell box complete
Pipes in the Great Soundboard
Restoration of the Console
Two milestones
The Blessing
The Opening Recital
Neil Wright
Forthcoming recitals
Specification
 

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