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Weem: Weem Parish Church

J W Walker & Sons, 1875 — organ surveyed August 2024


Specification

Great (56 notes)
8 Open Diapason
8 Dulciana
8 Stop’d Diapason Bass
8 Wald Flute Treble

4 Principal

8 Gamba


Plain metal, 17 pipes in case front
Plain metal, C13 to G56 only
C1- B12 stopped wood, round bevelled stoppers
C13 to 24 stopped wood, square perforated stoppers, C25 to G56 open wood with metal tuning flaps.
Plain metal, C1 to D#4 pipes on façade at sides of case. C25 cone tuned; all others fitted with tuning slides.
C1 to B12 stopped wood; spotted metal from C13 (slotted)

Swell (44 notes)
8 Horn Diapason
8 Stop’d Diapason
4 Harmonic Flute

2 Piccolo
8 Oboe


Plain metal, from D15 only
stopped wood; C13 and C#14 outside box
C13 wood with stopper; C#14 to F#19 open wood; G20 and G#21 at outer ends of chest, A22 to G56 plain metal in pyramid
C13 – F42, open wood with metal tuning flaps; F#43 to G56, plain metal
Plain metal

Pedal (30 notes)
16 Bourdon


Wood


Couplers and actions
Mechanical key and drawstop action.
Balanced Swell pedal (replacing original trigger)

Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal – nameless (purple) plastic stophead, added later (date unknown)
Great to Pedal

Tremulant – added post 1896 (date unknown)

Two composition pedals for the Great:
1. Stop’d Diapason, Wald Flute, Dulciana
2. Tutti

Swell to Pedal, reversible (in similar style to original composition pedals above, date unknown – post 1896)

Pitch
A = 445.5