Beziers Cathedral Puget [Hauptwerk]

Béziers Cathedral Organ

The organ has 45 stops, 59 ranks, on 3 manuals of 54 notes and a 30-note pedalboard. The console layout is by Théodore Puget, with Grand Orgue being the first (lowest) manual, then the Positif and finally the Récit expressif. Key action is mechanical, with Barker pneumatic assistance for the G.O. and its couplers.

The pipework is quite disparate, with pipes by:

Poncher - G.O. Montre facade pipes, and other six stops: Cornet, Bourdon 8', bass of Doublette in the G.O.; Flûte 4', bass of Nazard and bass of Doublette in the Positif

de Joyeuse - top of the Voix humaine in the Récit and Trumpet in the Pos.

Monturus - facade pipes of the Positif Montre, wooden bass of the G.O. Bourdons 16' and 8' and of the Positif Bourdon 8' and a few pipes in the Flûte 8' de Pédale

Isnard - oboe in the Récit from C3

Chambry - principal chorus of G.O. and Positif

Cavaillé-Coll (Solicional 8' in the G.O. and Trompette in the Récit)

Puget - all remaining pipework, plus he revoiced the complete instrument to bring it to a coherent whole.