St Clement's Church, Ashampstead, Berkshire
St Clement's Church is a beautiful and historic building set in the Berkshire countryside - an ancient tree root built into the North-West wall is reputed to be part of the tree, underwhich the Gospel was first preached on these shores.
The previous organ was a very early digital instrument from the 1980's and had reached the end of its useful life
The new Eminent organ (installed April 2008) has 32 speaking stops with two on each division capable of drawing alterable voices from the built-in library. The dark oak special panelled console is at the Eastern end of the Nave on the South side, and the main speaker system is mounted on the West end wall. The are further speakers in the Chancel mounted high and facing the altar and a set of console speakers. The three speaker systems can be used together, or in any combination via switches on the console. Both Swell and Great are under expression with independent swell pedals.
Photos on the left are:
The church from the South-East
The church from the North-East
Unloading the new organ
Interior looking West from the pulpit
The console
Open Diapason 8
Open Diapason 8
Open Diapason 16 Swell
to Great 8
Pistons to Great 5 Audio
channels Features Two Expression Pedals
Great Organ
Harmonic Flute 8
Dulciana 8
Principal 4
Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3 Alterable Voice
Fifteenth 2
Blockflute 2
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8
Clarinet 8 Alterable Voice
Swell Organ
Stopped Diapason 8
Echo Gamba 8
Voix Celeste 8
Gemshorn 4
Rohr Flute 4
Fifteenth 2
Tierce 1 3/5 Alterable Voice
Mixture III
Contra Fagotto 16
Oboe 8 Alterable Voice
Clarion 4
Tremulant
Pedal Organ
Subbass 16
Bourdon 16 Alterable Voice
Octave 8
Gedackt 8
Fagotto 16
Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Gt & Pd Pistons Coupled
Auto Pedal
Pistons
8 Pistons to Swell
8 General Pistons
3 Reversers
Set & Cancel Pistons
Stop sequencer system with 16 pages and 8 steps per page
Sequencer Advance thumb piston in Swell key slip
Audio
Full range speakers west wall
Full range speakers Chancel Wall
Built-in console speakers
Alternative Voicing Programme
64-Stop Library
Alesis reverberation unit (characteristics selectable via keyboard commands)
Wind noise and wind robbing effects
Full MIDI interface
Multi LED display showing capture system status, library stop selection and sequencer function
12 different tuning Temperaments
Theatre Tremulant switch
Headphone socket
Transposer and fine tuning control
Two additional alterable-voice specifications controlled by pistons (German and French)
Five different tunings for celeste
14 speed and 8 depth variations for tremulants
Organ Console finished in panelled dark oak