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====Continuo organ==== [[File:Roman baths 2014 16.jpg|thumbnail|Bath Abbey and the Roman baths]] A four-stop continuo organ was built for the abbey in 1999 by [[Northampton]]-based [[Organ building|organ builder]] [[Kenneth Tickell]].<ref name="NPOR β Bath Abbey's Tickell continuo organ">{{cite web | title=Bath Abbey: The Tickell continuo organ | url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00041 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224021954/http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00041 | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 December 2012 | work=The National Pipe Organ Register | publisher=[[British Institute of Organ Studies]] | year=2000 | access-date=18 September 2007 }}</ref> The instrument, contained in a case of dark oak, is portable, and can be tuned to three [[Pitch (music)|pitches]]: A=440 Hz (modern concert pitch), A=415 Hz and A=465 Hz. It is also possible to tune at A=430. A lever pedal can reduce the stops sounding to only the 8' stop and, when released, returns the organ to the registration in use before it was depressed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tickell-organs.co.uk/specInfo/opus42.htm | title=Bath Abbey Chamber Organ | publisher=Kenneth Tickell and Company | access-date=26 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626200754/http://www.tickell-organs.co.uk/specInfo/opus42.htm | archive-date=26 June 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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