The Church of Our Lady and St Vincent Potters Bar, Hertfordshire

The Eminent organ in Potters Bar Catholic Church is a 3 manual tabstop instrument with 54 speaking stops, full divisional and general pistons, alterable voicing and, as with all Eminent organs, voiced note-by-note in the Church. The console is sited at the East end of the building and the speaker system and amplifiers are at the West end mounted high on the walls above the entrance doors.
Photographs on the left show (in order):
The Church looking East
The exterior from the North
The console
Speaker systems being installed

The opening recital was given in October 2006 by Dr Gerald Gifford, who also made himself available to comment and advise on the final voicing of the instrument

Great Organ 16 Double Diapason 8 Principal 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Dulciana 4 Octave 4 Flute 22/3 Twelfth 2 Fifteenth Mixture IV Sharp Mixture III Cornet V (alterable voice) 8 Trumpet 4 Clarion (alterable voice) Tremulant Swell to Great Choir to Great		Swell Organ (enclosed) 8 Open Diapason 8 Chimney Flute 8 Gamba 8 Voix Celeste 4 Prestant 4 Rohr Flute 2 Super Octave 11/3 Larigot Mixture III Scharf III (alterable voice) 16 Contra Fagotto 8 Cornopean 8 Voix Humana (alterable voice) 8 Oboe 4 Clarion Tremulant		Choir Organ (enclosed) 16 Bourdon (alterable voice) 8 Harmonic Flute 8 Salicional 4 Gemshorn 4 Spitzflote 22/3 Nazard 2 Harmonic Piccolo 13/5 Tierce 1 Sifflote Mixture III Sesquialtera II (Alterable voice) 8 Orchestral Trumpet 8 Tuba 8 Clarinet Tremulant Swell to Choir
Pedal Organ 32 Contra Bourdon 16 Open Diapason 16 Open Wood 16 Bourdon 8 Octave 8 Bass Flute 4 Choral Bass Mixture III 32 Contra Bombarde (alterable voice) 16 Trombone 8 Trumpet (alterable voice) 4 Schalmei Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Choir to Pedal Great & Pedal Combinations Coupled		Registration Aids 8 independent memories for piston settings 8 thumb pistons for each of Swell, Choir and Great & Pedal 8 General thumb pistons Reversible thumb pistons for Ch to Ped, Gt to Ped, Sw to Ped, Sw to Gt, Sw to Ch, Ch to Gt Stop sequencer system with 16 pages and 8 steps per page Sequencer Advance thumb piston in Swell key slip Setter and General Cancel thumb pistons Two Expression Pedals 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 Romantic / classical voicing selector by piston control 12 different tuning Temperaments Transposer and fine tuning control		Audio 10 Audio Channels Console finished in limed oak

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