West Marlands Road
Southampton
SO14 7LP

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02380 632601

Compton

4 Manuals - 2 consoles
50 Ranks + Melotone
Number A269
Dual-purpose instrument with 2 four manual consoles, one with concert-organ layout and the other in theatre-organ style, both controlling the same instrument.
The pipe-work is located in four large chambers directly above the stage, behind a long grille
 

Original 1937 installation

Great/choir chamber

Swell chamber

Solo chamber

Chamber 4

Diap1
Diap2
Diap3
Diap4
Stopped diap
Hohl flute
Tromba
Posaune1
Posaune2
Mixture II
Mixture III
Gemshorn
Salicional
Cor Anglais
Lieblich flute
Vox angelica
Harmonics
32ft diaphone
32ft posaune

Rohr flute
Flauto traverso
Gamba
Celeste
Hautboy
Fagottone
Trumpet
Geigen
Mixture II
Mixture III
French horn

Traps

Chimes (added from original spec)

Trumpet
Tuba
Tibia
Harmonic flute
Vox
Oboe
Strings
Cello
Celeste
Viole
Clarinet

Xylophone

Glockenspiel

Sub bass (to 32ft polytone)

Melotone horn
(Melotone disks replaced with those from Forum Soton at some time)

Data kindly supplied by Peter Hammond of HWS Associates Ltd.