Invisible wrote:

> Peddle division:
>   Bordon 16'
> 
> Great division:
>   Open Diapason 8'
>   Stopped Diapason 8'
>   Dulciana 8' (incomplete rank)
>   Principal 4'
>   Flute 4' (incomplete rank)
>   Fifteenth 2'
> 
> Swell division (enclosed):
>   Double Diapason 16' (incomplete rank)
>   Horn Diapason 8' (incomplete rank)
>   Lieblich Gedact 8'
>   Principal 4'
>   Full Mixture III
>   Cornopean 8'
>   Tremelo (sic.)
> 
> Couplers:
>   Swell to Peddle
>   Swell to Great
>   Great to Peddle

In summary, 1 Peddle stop, 6 Great stops, 6 Swell stops, and 4 other 
control knobs. A grand total of 13 actual stops.

The Grand Organ of the Royal Albert Hall has 36 stops *for the peddles*! o_O

The organ above has two 16' stops, one of which lacks the lowest notes 
of the scale. So there is basically only one C0 pipe at 16' pitch.

The Grand Organ has 16' stops. I count 15 of them for the Peddles alone, 
but all five of the organ's divisions contain at least one 16' stop. 
Several divisions also have 32' stops, and there's even a single 64' 
stop in the Peddle division. o_O

(The 64' stop actually uses sum and difference waves to generate the 
pitch, rather than a pipe that is actually 64' long. Apparently only two 
organs in the world have a "real" 64' stop.)

If any of you want to see the full readout for yourselves, it can be 
found here:

http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00733

Other interesting data on the restoration is here:

http://www.mander-organs.com/portfolio/r-a-h.html

And not forgetting that you'll want to look up all those stop names:

http://www.organstops.org/index.html

(Some of these have examples you can listen to!)

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