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Taylor & Boody Organbuilders Opus 66 (2013)

Cambridge University: Sidney Sussex College
Cambridge, GB

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2013 - Organ with doors closed (Photograph by David Beckingham, via the Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2013 - Organ and organ case with doors open (Photograph by David Beckingham, via the Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2013 - Organ and organ case (Photograph by David Beckingham, via the Taylor & Boody website, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

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Source: Taylor & Boody website

Taylor & Boody Organbuilders (Opus 66, 2013)
Cambridge University
Cambridge, England

Manual
8'	Principal*
8'	Gedackt 
4'	Præstant 
4'	Flauta  
2 2/3'	Nasat  (c'- d''')
2'	Octave 
8'	Vox Virginia  
Tremulant

*(c - d''', bass common with Gedackt)
 
Compass:  C, D, E - d''', 49 notes
Gedackt pipes of black cherry 
Præstant pipes of 85% tin, hand planed
Other metal pipes of 28% tin, hammered 
Soundboard of solid yellow poplar, western red cedar, white oak and white pine
Case of solid white oak, fumed in ammonia and stained.  
Keyboards of white pine, Turkish boxwood, and Gabon ebony 
Single wedge bellows and blower in base of the organ
Wind pressure:  65mm 
Pitch:  a' = 465
Temperament: Norden meantone
Norden is based on a series of seven fifths narrowed by 1/5 th
Pythagorean Comma.  Those modified Meantone temperaments which
are based on intervals using1/5th Syntonic Comma fifths are
more common and can be tuned relatively easily by ear. 
However, unlike the intervals Norden, they do not generate thirds
which beat at the same rate as the fifths.  During the 1970's a 
milder temperament related to Norden was introduced
by Herbert Kellner.  It has only five 1/5 Pythagorean Comma
intervals and is held by many to be the most desirable
temperament for the 18th century music of J. S. Bach,
whose music explores all twelve keys.

[Received from Jeff Scofield March 19, 2022]

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