St Patrick's Parish Church Ballymena

Builder:  Conacher 1880
Rebuilt:  Wells Kennedy Partnership 1981


Console type:  Detached
Stop controls: Drawstop
Pedals type:   Concave & Radiating

Action
  Key:  Electropneumatic 
  Stop: Electric - sliders drawn by solenoid

Temperament:      
Tuning (a'): 440 Hz


Wind Pressures (Inches):
        Great  3 1/2
        Swell  3 1/2
        Choir  2 3/4
        Pedal  4



Specification:


I Choir (C-c4; 61)

Rohr Flute                      8
Wald Flute                      4
Fifteenth                       2
Larigot                     1 1/3
Cymbale  29 33 36             III
Cremona                         8
Tremulant


II Great (C-c4; 61)

Bourdon                        16
Open Diapason                   8
Stopped Diapason                8
Gamba                           8
Principal                       4
Koppedl Flute                   4
Nazard                      2 2/3
Fifteenth                       2
Tierce                      1 3/5
Mixture  19 22 26 29           IV
Trumpet                         8
Tremulant


III Swell (C-c4; 61)

Open Diapason                   8
Gedackt                         8
Salicional                      8
Voix Celeste                    8
Principal                       4
Gemshorn                        2
Mixture  22 26 29 33           IV
Contra Fagotto                 16
Trompette                       8
Hautbois                        8
Tremulant


Pedal (C-f; 30)

Open Diapason                  16
Bourdon                        16
Lieblich Bourdon               16       From Great Bourdon 16
Quint                      10 2/3       Derived from Great Bourdon 16
Principal                       8
Bass Flute                      8       From Pedal Bourdon 16
Octave                          4       From Pedal Principal 8
Stopped Flute                   4       From Pedal Bourdon 16
Mixture  19 22 26 29           IV
Trombone                       16
Fagotto                         8       From Swell Contra Fagotto 16



Couplers:

Swell to Great
Swell to Choir
Swell Octave
Choir to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Choir to Pedal


Accessories:

Great and Pedal Combinations Coupled
Swell and Pedal Combinations Coupled

Balanced mechanical swell pedal


Pistons:

Full compliment of pistons and reversibles adjustable by selector switch.

 
Comments:

Organ was built by Conacher of Huddersfield in 1880 and comprised three
manuals and 25 speaking stops.  It was originally tracker action but this
was replaced in 1908 when Conacher fitted tubular pneumatic action and
added six stops.

Wells Kennedy rebuilt the instrument and carried out a tonal revision in
1981 and at the time rationalised the internal layout of the instrument
and modified the case to improve the aperture, thus benefitting the egress
of sound.  A new drawstop console was fitted, action was completely
overhauled and electrified.  Solid state switching was installed for 
coupler and pedal departments while the manual divisions continue to reside
on slider soundboards apart from the Swell Contra Fagotto 16.

Source - IMcC 4/1995

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