JULIAN RHODES' DREAM ORGANS
THE GEORGE DIXON ARCHIVE



St. James, Whitehaven, Cumbria
Organ designed by George Dixon
Built by Norman & Beard 1909



II GREAT
    16       Rohr Bordun             wood & metal
     8       Open Diapason
     8       Geigen
     8       Claribel Flute          wood; closed bass
     4       Principal
    2 2/3    Twelfth
     2       Fifteenth
 
III SWELL (soundboard with extra treble octave, 70 notes)
     8       Horn Diapason           wood & metal
     8       Lieblich Gedeckt*       wood & metal
     4       Geigen Principal*
     2       Gemshorn
    III      Mixture  12*.19.22
    16       Corno di Bassetto
     8       Trumpet
             Tremulant (also acting on Orchestral)
 
I ORCHESTRAL (enclosed)
    16       Quintatön*
     8       Hohl Flöte              wood; open throughout
     4       Concert Flute*          harmonic metal
     8       Viole d'Orchestre
     8       Viole Célestes*         full-compass
 
BOMBARDE (floating)
     8       Harmonic Tromba
     4       Octave Tromba           extension
 
PEDAL  
    16       Open Wood    
    16       Subbass                 Great 16ft.
     8       Octave Wood             20 from Open Wood   
     8       Flute                   Great 16ft.   
    16       Trombone
    
 
Couplers: Orchestral to Pedal, Great to Pedal, Swell to Pedal, Orchestral 8ve,
          Bombarde to Orchestral, Swell to Orchestral, Bombarde to Great,
          Orchestral to Great, Swell to Great, Swell 8ve, Swell 8ves alone.
 
Combination pedals:   4 to Great, Bombarde, Pedal and couplers;
                      4 to Swell and couplers.
Reversible pedals to: Great to Pedal, Tremulant.
Balanced pedals to Swell, Orchestral.
 
Compass: 58/30.
 
Wind pressures:  Great  - 3 1/2in.
                 Swell, Orchestral, Bombarde - 7in.
                 Pedal  - flues 3 1/2 and 4 1/2in., reed 8in.

Asterisked registers prepared-for only.

SOURCE
Stoplist from 'Modern Organ Design' by George Dixon in 'The Organ' quarterly, October 1929; and 'The Organ in St. James's Church, Whitehaven' by Reginald Whitworth, in 'The Organ' quarterly, January 1943.





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