ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an exercise in contrast rather than a study of continuous development. The main English organ-building family of the seventeenth century was the Dallams. Their organs used a voicing style that remained distinctive but gradually developed through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The innovations in organ building and organ music were made mainly in new organs in London and Westminster and the parish churches of the main provincial towns. Lucas Harris took the Dallam voicing style, and combined it with Breton mixtures, twelfths, tierces, flutes and other solo stops to produce his version of the Baroque English organ. English church organs in the early seventeenth century would have been arranged like the surviving Dallam organs in Brittany. In the Breton organs, and in England after 1660, there is also an echo organ, placed directly above the keys and beneath the great organ.
