Sherwell United Church, Plymouth, Devon

The Eminent organ in Sherwell United 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 for the Church. The speakers are housed in custom-designed enclosures featuring solid light oak decorations on the West wall. The 14 channel amplification units are below. A further speaker system is situated at the East end of the church, this can be switched on / off at the console. This audio system can control the choir organ and solo reeds as a seperate sound source, either with the West end speakers or independently.

Photos on the left show:
The church looking East
Looking West with the old organ speakers on the wall
The old console from the 1970's electronic instrument prior to removal
The new Eminent console
The new speaker systems on the West end wall

Great Organ

16 Double Diapason
8 Open Diapason
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Dulciana
4 Principal
4 Flute
2
2/3 Twelfth
2 Fifteenth
Mixture IV
Sharp Mixture III
Cornet V
8 Trumpet
4 Clarion
Tremulant
Swell to Great
Choir to Great

  Swell Organ (enclosed)

8 Open Diapason
8 Chimney Flute
8 Echo Gamba
8 Voix Celeste
8 Voix Humana
4 Principal
4 Rohr Flute
2 Fifteenth
1
1/3 Larigot
Mixture III
Scharf III
16 Contra Fagotto
8 Cornopean
8 Oboe
4 Clarion
Tremulant

  Choir Organ (enclosed)

16 Bourdon
8 Stopped Diapason
8 Salicional
4 Gemshorn
4 Flute
2
2/3 Nazard
2 Harmonic Piccolo
1
3/5 Tierce
1 Sifflote
Mixture III
8 Orchestral Trumpet
8 Tuba
8 Clarinet
Tremulant
Swell to Choir

Pedal Organ

32 Contra Bourdon
16 Open Diapason
16 Bourdon
16 Subbass
8 Octave
8 Bass Flute
4 Choral Bass
Mixture III
32 Contra Bombarde
16 Trombone
16 Fagotto
8 Trumpet
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
Toe pistons for Sw-Gt, Sw-Ped, Gt-Ped and Advance
Stop sequencer system with 100 pages and 8 steps per page
Sequencer Advance thumb piston in Swell key slip
Setter and General Cancel thumb pistons
Two additional alterable-voice specifications controlled by pistons (German and French)
Five different tunings for celeste
Built-in extra 64-stop library
Twelve tuning temperaments
14 speed and 8 depth variations for tremulants
Alesis reverberation, controllable in loudness and with 7 decay characteristics selectable
Fine tune control
Transposer
Wind noise control
Wind robbing control
Full MIDI interface

  Audio

14 Audio Channels - 6 high and 8 low in audio cabinets designed and made in light oak timber with fabric fronts and solid oak vertical louvres

Console finished in light oak

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