The organ has:

• 4 manuals (keyboards) and pedal
• 3,331 pipes
• 51 voices (stops), in addition to 4 "prepared-for" stops
• 3 blowers, producing air in a range from 2 to 15 pounds per square inch.

It was built by Felix Schoenstein & Company of San Francisco, California, founded in 1877. The firm was chosen to rebuild the famous organ in the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City. Our organ took over 18 months to design and build, and required an additional four months to install and voice; the total labour hours exceeded 16,000! It is the first Schoenstein instrument in the mid-Atlantic region. Interesting features:

• Pipes are made from an alloy of tin, lead, zinc and copper, as well as wood (generally pine).
• The smallest pipe is pencil-sized.
• The largest pipe is 18.5 feet tall, 2 square feet in dimension and weighs 430 pounds.
• The weight of the organ is approximately 32,000 pounds.
• There are 40 miles of wire in the console, relay action and wind chests.
• The console is controlled by a state-of-the-art digital memory system and features oak and walnut cabinetry, inlaid with maple, ebony and coca bola.
• The pedalboard and its accessories are adjusted by an elevator device, making the console instantly comfortable for organists of varying height.
• The organ is designed to accompany the Anglican Service and has a rich selection of colourful solo stops and soft effects, as well as ensembles for brilliant hymn playing. It is modelled upon the work of Henry Willis, builder of organs at Saint Paul's, London, and Salisbury Cathedral. Ours was the first organ of this type to be installed in the Washington area in some 50 years.

Musical features unique to Saint Paul's organ:

• A solo reed stop designed to imitate the horns in a Wagner orchestra (Tuben 8').
• A Symphonic Flute, specially designed for our church.
• Two stops from the 1869 organ in the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City.
• Tremulants (vibrato) controllable by an adjustable pedal for variability of speed.
• A unique system of Swell expression (including two doubly-enclosed divisions) which makes dramatic dynamic contrast possible through a series of 5 louvered openings, instantly adjustable by pedals at the console.

Details:

16 8 8 8 8 4 4 2 2/3 2 1 3/5 2 8	GREAT Double Diapason First Open Diapason Second Open Diapason Harmonic Flute Bourdon Principal Claribel Flute Twelfth (TC) Fifteenth Seventeenth (TC) Full Mixture (IV rks) Harmonic Trumpet Chimes (TC) Bells (Cymbelstern)
16 8 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 2 2 2/3 2 8 8 16 8 4	SWELL Lieblich Bourdon (Wood) Open Diapson Stopped Diapason (Wood) Echo Gamba Vox Celeste Flute Celeste (II rks)*+ Celestiana (IIrks) Gemshorn Harmonic Flute Celestiana (II rks) Flageolet Cornet (III rks) Mixture (III-V rks)* Hautboy Vox Humana (with tremulant)^ Posaune* Cornopean* Clarion* Tremulant *Stops in Celestial box which is inside   Swell box +Available unison-only by switch ^In separate box inside Celestial box
16 8 8 4 4 2 2/3 2 2 1 3/5 1 1/3 1 16 8 8 8	CHOIR Double Dulciana Dulciana Lieblich Gedeckt Fugara Forest Flute Nazard (TC) Salicet Harmonic Piccolo Tierce (TC) Nineteenth (TC) Twenty-second Corno di Bassetto Flügel Horn Corno di Bassetto Tuba Mirabilis Tremulant Variable Tremulant Harp Celesta
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8	SOLO Symphonic Flute Gamba Gamba Celeste Celestiana (II rks) English Horn French Horn Harmonic Trumpet* Tuba* Tuben (III)+ Tuba Mirabilis (Unenclosed) Tremulant Variable Tremulant *Stops in Ethereal box which is inside   Solo box +Tuben stop draws all three Celestial    chorus reeds at 8 pitch
32 32 32 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 4 4 2 2/3 32 32 16 16 16 8 4 8	PEDAL Double Open Wood Contra Gamba Contra Bourdon Open Wood Open Diapason Bourdon (Wood) Dulciana Lieblich Bourdon Principal Bourdon (Wood) Stopped Diapason Dulciana Fifteenth Flute Mixture (IV rks) Double Ophicleide Contra Posaune Ophicleide Posaune Corno di bassetto Ophicleide Corno di Bassetto Pizzicato Bass* *Draws Open Wood at octave pitch   through pizzicato touch relay