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Parish of Great Missenden with Ballinger and Little Hampden

Verse of the Week

" My command is this: Love one another as I have loved you. ”

( John 15:12 )

Service times

20th May 2012

St Peter & St Paul

7th Sunday of Easter

08:00 Holy Communion

10:00 Parish Communion

18:00 Evensong

(Details of the Music)

St Mary's Ballinger

No service

Little Hampden

No service

The Organ
Built by James Jepson Binns of Leeds and installed in 1916. It has two manuals of 5 octave compass, and a radiating and concave pedal board of 30 notes
There are 21 speaking stops, with some borrowing, and a range of couplers and combination pistons.
The organ was fully restored in 2006 by David Wells Ltd. of Liverpool, with the financial help of the Friends of Great Missenden Parish Church.
 
 
The specification of the organ
 
Swell Organ (Left Jamb)

Tremulant to Swell
Oboe 8
Cornopean 8
Mixture 3 Rank
Salicet 4
Viol D'Orchestre 8
Vox Angelica 8
Rohr Flute 8
Geigen Principal 8 		Great Organ (Right Jamb)

Trumpet 8
Flautina 2
Principal 4
Dulciana 8
Gedact 8
No1 Diapason 8
No2 Diapason 8
Bourdon 16
 
Couplers (Left Jamb)

Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
 Pedal Organ (Right Jamb)

Bass Flute 8
Octave Bass 8
Sub Bass 16
Contra Bass 16
Harmonic Bass 32
 
Octave Couplers (placed centrally, above the Swell manual)

Swell to Great Sub-Octave
Swell to Great Octave
Swell Sub-Octave
Swell Octave
 
 
Swell Combination Pedals
 
(R to L from left of the Swell Pedal)

  1. Rohr Flute 8
    Vox Angelica 8
  2. Rohr Flute 8
    Geigen Principal 8
  3. Rohr Flute 8
    Geigen Principal 8
    Viol D'Orchestre 8
    Salicet 4
    Oboe 8
  4. Rohr Flute 8
    Geigen Principal 8
    Viol D'Orchestre 8
    Salicet 4
    Mixture 3 Rank
    Cornopean 8
 General Combination Pedals
Acting on Great and Pedal divisions
(L to R from Right of the Swell Pedal)

  1. G Gedact 8
    G Dulciana 8
    P Sub Bass 16

  2. G Gedact 8
    G Dulciana 8
    G No2 Open Diapason 8
    P Sub Bass 16
    P Bass Flute 8

  3. G No2 Open Diapason 8
    G No 1 Open Diapson 8
    G Principal 4
    P Sub Bass 16
    P Contra Bass 16
    P Bass Flute 8

  4. G No2 Open Diapason 8
    G No 1 Open Diapson 8
    G Principal 4
    G Flautina 2
    P Sub Bass 16
    P Contra Bass 16
    P Bass Flute 8
    P Octave Bass 8
 
The action is Binn's own patent tubular pneumatic, and the couplers, Swell pedal and combination pedals are all mechanical
 
Further information about the organ can be found from the British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS) - the relevant page is their record No N09605