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The pipes of the great division of the High Street Organ are played from the bottom one of the console's two keyboards.
There are some 305 pipes altogether for the great division,
with the largest
29 used in the organ's casework, shown at the
right. In the picture you see, from left to right,
5 pipes from the Spitz Flöte, 5 from the Diapason,
9 more from the Diapason, then 2 more groups of 5 from the
Spitz.
The biggest pipe, in the center, plays the note C, two octaves
below middle C.
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(This image was scanned from a photograph which appears in the "Lucy
Webber Scrap Book", which documents the rebuilding of the High Street
Church following the Fire of 1985)
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The great division actually has only three stops of its own:
The fundamental 8' Diapason, the 8' Spitz Flöte, and
the new Octave Chorus, III. The rest of the stops are "borrowed"
from the swell division: stop knobs on the
great side of the console allow these swell stops to be played from
the great keyboard.
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Just behind the front of the casework's 29 Diapason and
Spitz stops are the rest of the pipes for those two stops, as seen
here. In this picture, the sanctuary and front of the organ case are
to the left. The tallest pipes in the distance are about 4' tall.
People who like mathematics will enjoy the exponential-like curve
traced out by the tops of the rows of pipes!
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