St Peters Church, St Albans

The Mander Organ

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The New Mander organ was finished in 2006. I was surprised to see that it was a three manual organ with tracker action.

Listen to the Organ

 
Swell   Great   Choir   Pedal  
Open Diapason 8 Double Diapason 16 Chimney Flute 8 Open Diapason 16
Gedackt 8 Open Diapason 8 Viola da Gamba 8 Bourdon 16
Salicional 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Principal 4 Quint 10 2/3
Celeste 8 Harmonic Flute 8 Koppelflute 4 Principal 8
Principal 4 Principal 4 Nazard 2 2/3 Fifteenth 4
Nason Flute 4 Open Flute 4 Piccolo 2 Trombone 16
Fifteenth 2 Twelfth 2 2/3 Tierce 1 3/5    
Mixture III-IV Fifteenth 2 Sharp Mixture III    
Bassoon 16 Seventeenth 1 3/5 Cremona 8    
Trumpet 8 Mounted Cornet III Tremulant    
Oboe 8 Fourniture IV        
Vox Humana 8 Trumpet 8        
Tremulant              

I was surprised to see that the church had a chest organ as well as the new Mander organ. I like chest organs. I would like one like this.

 

  
Paul playing the Masnder organ at St Peters Church, St Lbans A close up look at the casing

I was lucky enough to manage to climb up into the organ and have a good look around inside it. I hadn't seen a tracker action working from the inside before.

 

 

The thing that initially struck me was how shiny the inside of the organ was. All the pipes gleamed. There was lots of space inside, compared to other organs I have climbed into.

 

All the pipes and sound boards were well labelled, something that is missing at St Mary's Hemel and you have to guess. This organ has two sets of swell shutters - one opening onto the nave as well as the main one.