The Methodist Church, Hadleigh, Essex
Hadleigh Methodist Church is a rather splendid building - in particular the barrel roof with plaster mouldings. The old organ, of little artistic merit needed a comprehensive rebuild, and as funds were lacking, the church decided to invest in an Eminent custom-built organ
The instrument has 37 speaking stops and tremulants to both Swell and Great. The Great and Swell organs are under separate expression. The light medium oak console is at the front of the church on the right, and the amplification and speaker systems are mounted on the West wall in North and South locations (the cabinets are specially designed to reflect the curve of the barrel roof).
Photos on the left are:
The old organ prior to removal
The old organ console
A view looking East
Final finishing of speaker cabinets
South cabinet in place prior to speaker insersion and cloth covers
The New console
Double Diapason 16
Open Diapason 8
Contra Bourdon 32 Alterable Voice Swell
to Great 8
Pistons to Great 5 Audio
channels Features Two Expression Pedals
Great Organ
Open Diapason 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Dulciana 8
Principal 4
Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Blockflute 2
Sesquialtera II Alterable Voice
Mixture IV
Orchestral Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Trumpet 8
Clarinet 8
Swell Organ
Chimney Flute 8
Echo Gamba 8
Voix Celeste 8
Principal 4
Rohr Flute 4
Fifteenth 2
Larigot 1 1/3 Alterable Voice
Mixture III
Scharf III Alterable Voice
Contra Fagotto 16
Cornopean 8
Oboe 8
Clarion 4
Pedal Organ
Open Diapason 16
Subbass 16
Bourdon 16
Octave 8
Gedackt 8
Choral Bass 4
Mixture III
Trombone 16
Trumpet 8 Alterable Voice
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell Tremulant
Great Tremulant
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
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 with console lights
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
Adjustable bench
Double-lock roll-top
Organ Console finished in light medium oak