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If you have already extended the Sub Bass rank to 32' on the Ped, why do you need to quint it at 102/3? (But I've been drinking Aberlour A'bunadh at 60.5% tonight so am well beyond rational thought just now.) -Wouldn't it add a 'whoomf' (in the technical sense...) of some sort?

Here's the premise: Merton College will have a new Choral foundation from 2008, and it is decided that a new organ is needed (for the current instrument see npor). For those of you that don't know Merton it is one of the largest Oxford chapels on a T shape plan, rather like St John's Cambridge - a cathedral without a nave. The instrument should be in the same position. My two cents: Ped Contra Bourdon 32' (A) Principal 16' Subbass 16' (A) Bourdon quint 10 2/3' (A) Lieblich Bourdon 16' (Sw) Choral bass 8' Flute 8' Fifteenth 4' Trombone 16' Contra posaune 16' (sw) Trumpet 8' (Gt) Choir Enclosed Dulciana 8' Bourdon 8' Principal 4' Stopped Flute 4' Salicet 4' Doublet 2' Harmonia Aeth III Sesquialtera II Vox Humana 8' Corno di bassetto 8' Tromba 8' Great Open Diapason 8' Hohl Flute 8' Gamba 8' Harmonic Flute 4' Principal 4' Flageolet 2' Quatern II Great Mix IV Cornet IV Trumpet 8' Swell Enclosed L. Bourdon 16' Open Diapason 8' Chimney flute 8' Salish 8' Box angelica 8' Principal 4' Fifteenth 2' Mixture IV Contra posaune 16' Hautboy 8' Cornopaean 8' Clarion 4' Or is this just slightly dull?

One thing I'd really like to know from Organists with experience of the Gloucester instrument is whether they are equally conscious of pedal noise emanating from the North side of the pulpitum screen. Looking at the Downes article on JStor, in 1973 form only the Bishop Open Wood ('Flute!') was put in that position, for obvious reasons of space. Perhaps the situation is made more obvious by the new material in the screen, the mutations and whatnot. I was listening to a bit of Hindemith I think, with a very long pedal point, and was really shocked how obvious it was, from the Quire, that the 16' was well outside the case. Is this just a result of knowing where stuff is? I've never noticed a similar effect at Kings Cambo.