"However, they take up a huge amount
of space, and since the Organ Reform Movement, independent pedal
departments have often displaced these leviathans. Having said that, in
large buildings, they make a grand underpinning of the principal chorus,
and in their 32' incarnations they are the sine qui non of the English
Cathedral Organ. Wind pressure at the feet of these monsters is often
remarkably small - often under 2".
Although sometimes
described as an Open Diapason (wood),
the vast scale makes the Open Wood
much more like a large scale open flute in tone. The stop is almost
exclusively found on the pedals."
by Alastair Disley
http://www.organstops.org/o/OpenWood.html
Copyright © 1999 Edward L. Stauff,
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