ATIC

Swell to Great Sub-octave. Dome Tubas to Great.
Swell to Great Unison. Chancel Tubas to Great.
Swell to Great Super-octave. Chancel Tubas to Great.
Solo to Swell.

COUPLERS--MECHANICAL

Tuba Organ to Pedal. Great Organ to Pedal.
Solo Organ to Pedal. Choir Organ to Pedal.
Swell Organ to Pedal.

Six Pistons operate on the whole Organ.

About forty Adjustable Pistons and Composition Pedals.

The mechanism is entirely new. The quarter dome portion of the organ
is playable by electric agency; the rest being entirely pneumatic.
There are one hundred draw-stops. The most novel features are the new
Altar and Tuba organs. The former, containing Vox Humana, Vox Angelica
(3 ranks), and two Gambas (16 and 8 feet) serves for distant and
mysterious effects and to support the priest while intoning at the
altar; while the Tuba organ produces effects of striking brilliancy;
three of the Tubas being located in the northeast quarter-gallery and
speaking well into the body of the building. Among the accessories,
also, may be noted the large supply of adjustable combination pistons,
which bring the various sections of the instrument well under the
player's control. Various wind pressures are employed, from 3 1/2 to
25 inches.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY ORGAN, LONDON, ENG.

All good Americans when they visit London go to Westminster Abbey, and
will be interested in the organ there; in fact we believe it was
largely built with American money. The house of William Hill & Son,
who built this organ, is the oldest firm of organ-builders in England,
being descended from the celebrated artist, John Snetzler, whose
business, founded in 1755, passed into the possession of Thomas Elliot,
and to his son-in-law, William Hill (inventor of the Tuba), in the
earlier part of the Nineteenth Century. The business has been in the
Hill family nearly a hundred years and is now directed by William
Hill's grandson. The firm has built many notable instruments in Great
Britain and her colonies (Sydney) celebrated for the refinement and
purity of their tone.

[Illustration: The Console, Westminster Abbey]

The organ in Westminster Abbey is placed at each side of the choir
screen, except the Celestial organ, which is placed in the triforium of
the south transept (Poets' Corner) and connected with the console by an
electric cable 200 feet long. The form of action used is Messrs.
Hill's