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PAGE 86MONDAY, 21 MAYSt. James BermondseyThe Organist: Daniel MoultThe Organ: 1829 Bishop – 2003 Goetze & Gwynn,III/29The Organ, built by J.C. Bishop in 1829, was opened with a stupendous SacredConcert, lasting from noon until 6pm. The three best known organists in Londonsat side by side on the organ stool, playing Bach’s Fugues as a Trio. Nearlytwo thousand tickets were sold! To cope with the new large buildings andtheir congregations, the organ builders of the 1820’s built larger instrumentsthan had been usual in the 18th century, and chose to emphasise the deepertones by providing a small pedal board (until then a rarity in England) and largescaled wooden pipes to provide a grand effect. Bishop’s Organ at St. James hadat the time the largest number of Pedal pipes (75) in the south of England. Thepedal pipes could be played from either the pedals or a small manual keyboardto the left of the manuals. At the time such an arrangement was not unique,but it is now generally held to be the sole survivor.Stop List:Pedal Choir Great SwellDouble Pedal Pipes Open Diapason Open Diapason Open DiapasonUnison Pedal Pipes Dulciana Open Diapason Open DiapasonTrombone Stop Diapason Stop Diapason Stop DiapasonPrincipal Principal PrincipalFlute Twelfth Cornet VFifteenth Fifteenth French HornBassoon Bass GG-d Sesquialtera III TrumpetCremona Treble d#-f3, see note Furniture II HautboyTrumpetClarionDetailsTuning modified 1/5 comma meantone Pitch A=432Hz at 15ºCAccessories3 composition pedals to great giving:-1. Full Great2. Full Great without reeds3. Diapasons;Reversing shifting movement shutting off all swell stops exceptdiapasons;Ratchet swell pedalFurther informationChoir Bassoon Bass/Cremona Treble pipework changes between b & c1;Choir & Great Stop Diaps are open wood pipes from c to top, swellstop diap is stopped (pierced stoppers) to top note;This organ probably has the earliest unaltered swell box with shutters,the earliest unaltered composition pedals, complete set of couplersand independent pedal stops; The swell shifting movement probably neverworked well enough for the mechanism to be used elsewhere.