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Exploring the 1894 Tubular Pneumatic Organ at Darlington United Reformed Church!
Visiting the organ at Darlington United Reformed Church
3 manual 'Tubular Pheumatic Action' pipe organ built by J.J. Binns of Leeds in 1894. Restored in 1991 by H.E. Prested of Durham.
Full specification & history: npor.org.uk/survey/N12045
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3 manual 'Tubular Pheumatic Action' pipe organ built by J.J. Binns of Leeds in 1894. Restored in 1991 by H.E. Prested of Durham.
Full specification & history: npor.org.uk/survey/N12045
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REBUILT AND RETURNED (...and what a sound it makes)
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Visiting the newly restored pipe organ at Yarm Parish Church, UK 2 manual 'Tubular Pneumatic Action' organ built by Abbot & Smith of Leeds. Re-built by Peter Wood Organ Builders in 2023 Full history & specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N12049 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, LIKE AND SHARE - MANY MORE 'ORGANIC VISITATIONS' TO COME!
PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AT THIS ONE…
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Visiting the pipe organ at Elm Ridge Methodist Church, UK 2 manual 'electric action' organ built by Abbot & Smith of Leeds - 1936 Full history & specification: npor.org.uk/survey/D07701 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT AND SHARE - MANY MORE 'ORGANIC VISITATIONS' TO COME!
152 YEAR OLD PIPE ORGAN (…a reed would be nice)
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Visiting the organ at St Andrew's Church, Sadberge, County Durham, UK 2 manual 'Tracker Action' organ built by Forster & Andrews of Hull - 1872 Full history & specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N15108 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, COMMENT AND SHARE - MANY MORE 'ORGANIC VISITATIONS' TO COME!
THE FATHER WILLIS ORGAN AT ST BEES PRIORY
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Visiting the organ at St Bees Priory, Cumbria, UK 3 manual 'Tubular Pneumatic Action' pipe organ built by Henry Willis in 1899 Full history & specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N01634 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT - MANY MORE 'ORGANIC VISITATIONS' TO COME!
BACK WITH A BANGER! (...hardly ever played)
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Visiting the organ at Darlington (Grange) Baptist Church, UK 2 manual "Tracker Action" pipe organ built by Forster & Andrews (Hull) in 1897 Full history & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N15184 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT - MANY MORE "ORGANIC VISITATIONS" TO COME!
A ‘NOISY’ VISITATION...
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Visiting the organ at St Mary's Church, Coxhoe, County Durham, UK 2 manual "Tracker Action" pipe organ built by Harrison & Harrison in 1914. Full History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N15136 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT - MANY MORE "ORGANIC VISITATIONS" TO COME!
UNDECIDED ABOUT THIS ONE (...comments please)
Просмотров 4,5 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Visiting the organ at St Thomas Aquinas RC Church, Darlington, UK. 2 manual "Tracker Action" pipe organ built by Peter Collins Organ Builders, 1970. Full History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N04187 Peter Collins Organ Builder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Collins_(organ_builder) PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT - MANY MORE "ORGANIC VISITATIONS" TO COME!
NOT BAD FOR ITS AGE (…just badly positioned)
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Visiting the pipe organ at St Mary's Church, Whitby, UK 2 Manual 'Tracker/Tubular Pneumatic Action' built originally on 1827 and restored in 1901/1950. Organ Builders: 1950 - Henry Willis & Sons (London) 1901 - Forster & Andrews (Hull) 1827 - Ward (York) Full History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N15035 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, LIKE AND SHARE
WHITBY PIPE ORGAN (…with an OPHICLEIDE!!)
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Visiting the organ at St Hilda's Church, West Cliff, Whitby, UK 3 manual "Tubular Pneumatic Action" pipe organ built in 1926 (and restored in 1982) by Harrison & Harrison of Durham, UK Full History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N02960 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, SHARE AND COMMENT
Want a FREE pipe organ? (...too good to scrap)
Просмотров 16 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Visiting the organ at Skinningrove Methodist Church. 2 Manual 'Tracker Action' Pipe Organ built in 1910(c) by Nelson & Co of Durham, UK This church has now closed down and the organ is FREE to a good home. If you are interested please contact Mr Martin McLachlan clevelanddanbypropertyfinance@outlook.com History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/T00048 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, SHARE AND COMMENT
UNMOTIVATED (…can you help?)
Просмотров 3 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Visiting the organ at St Mary's Church, Whorlton, Barnard Castle, UK 2 Manual 'Tracker Action' Pipe Organ built in 1865 by Postill Organ Builders of York. History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N14914 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, SHARE AND COMMENT
"ORANGE" DRAW STOPS? (...and loads of them)
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Visiting the organ at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, UK. 3 manual "Electro-Pneumatic Action" pipe organ dating back to 1788 and rebuilt by Harris Organ Builders of Birmingham, 1955. Full History & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/F00031 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT - MANY MORE "ORGANIC VISITATIONS" TO COME!
SOME SURPRISING STOPS (…for a small pipe organ)
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.11 месяцев назад
SOME SURPRISING STOPS (…for a small pipe organ)
WAITED A YEAR TO DO THIS ONE (...but well worth it)
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WAITED A YEAR TO DO THIS ONE (...but well worth it)
A LOOK INSIDE AN 1870 PIPE ORGAN (...maybe it's NOT mice after all)
Просмотров 1 тыс.Год назад
A LOOK INSIDE AN 1870 PIPE ORGAN (...maybe it's NOT mice after all)
LOUDER THAN IT LOOKS (...Merry Christmas 🎄)
Просмотров 2 тыс.Год назад
LOUDER THAN IT LOOKS (...Merry Christmas 🎄)
JUST A SHAME ABOUT THE PEDALS (…awesome pipe organ)
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JUST A SHAME ABOUT THE PEDALS (…awesome pipe organ)
SORRY, IT'S A DIGITAL 😣 (...but a NICE one)
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SORRY, IT'S A DIGITAL 😣 (...but a NICE one)
TOO EXPENSIVE TO FIX? (...mice in the organ 🐭)
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.Год назад
TOO EXPENSIVE TO FIX? (...mice in the organ 🐭)
NO COMMENT ON THE 16ft?? (…now THAT'S a first)
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NO COMMENT ON THE 16ft?? (…now THAT'S a first)
SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING (...rarely used and out of tune)
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
SIZE ISN'T EVERYTHING (...rarely used and out of tune)
I'VE BEEN CONVERTED 😲 (...a nice 16ft on the Swell)
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I'VE BEEN CONVERTED 😲 (...a nice 16ft on the Swell)
NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE (...3ft Organ Stop)
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NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE (...3ft Organ Stop)
THE FOUR LETTER WORD (...LOUD!!!!) | CUMBRIAN PIPE ORGAN
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.Год назад
THE FOUR LETTER WORD (...LOUD!!!!) | CUMBRIAN PIPE ORGAN
NEEDS A GREAT 2ft (…and a good tune)
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NEEDS A GREAT 2ft (…and a good tune)
PLEASE KINDLY GIVE IT TO OUR CHURCH IN NIGERIA, WE WILL APPRECIATE IT, IF WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE IT WE WILL SEND OUR DETAILS ADDRESS. THANKS
I think this organ has already been rehoused, but keep watching my channel as more will be coming 👍🎶
A lovely organ, very effective in solo use and in choral accompaniment. The lack of a 2ft doesn’t seem to be a great disadvantage since the organ is well supplied with mixtures and bright 4ft stops.
Thanks, Andrew. A 2’ would be nice (in my humble opinion) as the mixtures are so powerful, but I agree, it’s certainly not a huge disadvantage. I think it’s the first 3 manual I’ve come across without an independent 2’ 👍🎹
Is there no end to your tallent, should try doing it in school next time you are there.❤😅😊❤
And you won’t be there to hear it 😩
I'm not exactly sure what this video was about, but your Bach sounded pretty good lol
That’s an old video…before I’d plucked up the courage to do them myself 😊 Not sure they are any better now but I hope so 👍🎹
You don't say what the action of this organ was originally. presumably a tracker? Your voice mike needs turning up a bit as it sounded muffled and when you played the organ the sound was too loud by comparison. Any way, merry Xmas and thanks for the demo,
That’s a unit organ with a detached console and I believe it has always been electric action. It replaced an earlier tracker organ, built by Harrison & Harrison, which was moved to a different church (I think the earlier organ would have been much more my cup of tea). Again, an earlyish video so forgive the sound quality. Hope I’ve improved 🙄👍🎹
AND I love your opening piece.. what is it? I'd like to find it....
It’s from “Eight Preludes & Fugues’ by J.S. Bach. A fantastic set of pieces! 😊👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations thank you... found... number 2. And found and printed. I'm tidying up a mass of Christmas music at the moment but I need something fresh to inspire me!!
Glad you found it! And good luck with Christmas - it’s a busy old time for us musicians! Church services, concerts, etc, etc 😊👍🎹
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@@OrganicVisitations most definitely. Love your presentations don't want to miss them. Moment you mentioned Dracula I remembered seeing Whitby in a doco.. beautiful place... says he from Down Under where beauty here is often found in hot dry harsh landscapes!!
Thank you - and please share with anyone who may be interested! Must get my subscriber count up! Have a happy Christmas down under 👍🎹😊
what a beautiful organ, original and well maintained and used and what a sound. That beautiful full sound which would lead a congregation ever upward in their hymn singing. And of course ample resources for great voluntaries.
What's next, are british organists completely oblivious to the uses an 8' pedal stop might have ? "8's are only for the manuals !!!" what an amazing organ culture and registration tradition.
Well the acoustics don't help, extremely dull sounding.
Probably not helped by my amateur recording 🙄👍🎹
Lovely organ. Thanks. Coincidentally, I have a digital organ sample set with a Resultant (the 10-2/3') and no 2ft on the Great. It's a Casavant from Canada.
That’s interesting! 😊👍🎹
What a fabulous instrument. Nice bright tone and every stop counts. Who needs a 2’ when the rest is quality
Lovely cornopean
Quite a nice sounding organ. I am of the opinion that the Great and Swell Mixtures could have been tonal revisions some years ago. Maybe the Great was originally built with a fifteenth.
I have wondered that as well. I find it hard to imagine that it has never had a 2’ but really don’t know. Hope you’re keeping well 👍🎹
@ Quite well thanks. Organs of that romantic period were very rarely built with bright mixtures which this example shows. Larger instruments usually had at least one 2 foot stop, a Great Fifteenth or a Swell Flautina or Piccolo. The Swell Mixture could have been a Leiblich Bourdon 16. The Great 3 rank Mixture may have been accommodated by combining two sliders having a Flute 4Ft and the Fifteenth.
Thank you - that does sound like a strong possibility 👍🎹
@@davidcraggs3770Very untrue. Willis had toned down his mixtures by the 1890s, and Hope-Jones was about to abolish upperwork altogether, but Hill, Lewis, Brindley, Walker, and many others were constructing full choruses right to the end of the Romantic period. Binns was a devoted disciple of Edmund Schulze and the tone of the upperwork is exactly what I would expect from him, not from a later builder.
@@jeremytingle6404 Whilst Binns was a disciple of Schulze the Binns orans followed fashion, the money source calls the tune. Binns organs with mixtures in the Swell had on Flautina 2' on the great. I revisited one that I played for 2 years in the early sixties and found that my initial reactions of the period were sound. The 2' had very little effect on the Diapasons 8 & 4'. The organ had no 4' flute either.
I couldn't help noticing you play the bass line with your left hand as well as feet even with the coupler on. Not a criticism at all, but is that a hang over from playing piano or instruments with no pedal board? Stretching for the bass makes it hard for me to achieve a legato when it's necessary to take the alto part in the left. I've not really got as far as playing the whole alto line in the left for soloing out the tune yet 🙄
Definitely a hang over from being a pianist, particularly hymn playing. Effectively I double up the bass line with the pedal stops to ‘fatten’ it up. If I’m playing music specifically written for organ, Bach for example, I tend to play as intended for reasons you describe. Plus my hands are not big enough to play those huge tenor/bass intervals and it saves me a few fingers to add some alto in to the left hand. Not explained very well but hope you get my drift 👍🎹
Good to see you back Hope all is okay. An interesting little instrument - never seen expression pedals quite like that before and certainly makes that top D# on the pedal a bit of a challenge! Wondering if it was a converted hitch-down swell mechanism which would have been in a very similar position? And the "luxury" of a separate Pedal quint to my mind could have been far better used elsewhere - an independent 2ft perhaps. But again, a lovely little organ and thanks for taking the time to show it off.
Yes, I wondered whether the swell pedals have originally been ratchet pedals and converted but I don’t know. Certainly an uncomfortable position for them. And yes, an independent 2ft would make a big difference 😊👍🎹
If the Pedal Quint is an independent chest of pipes. I think the money and space could been used to provide a 16 foot Trombone.
A 'Battleship Binns' lovely tones as would be expected. As with many Binns instruments set a very grand looking case which makes a nice finish to the building. Good to see you back many thanks
Agreed! The casework is lovely and it certainly has some beef! 👍🎹
All in all, a lovely organ for romantic style accompaniment of a congregation or choir.
It’s a lovely organ, albeit small for a 3 manual. Got some umph! 👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I'd rather have a small 3 manual with useful couplers than a large 2 manual, with similar number of stops overall. 3 manual is more flexible.
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I've never understood the appeal of a Cornopean stop.
A Cornopean Rank is basically a Horn.
That trumpet on the great seemed rather out of tune.
Yes it was, maybe because the church was soooo cold
I thought that too
Can't make out the combinations on the right of the pedal organ, they seem to be right behind the swell pedals? Is this just a perspective aberration or are they really not accessible ? Anyway, thanks again for a nice video
Probably just my bad photography! They are all accessible, although the swell pedals are awkward. Way too high and uncomfortably positioned 👍🎹
Four reeds on such a small organ!
An added bonus 😊👍🎹
The absence of separate 2-foot stops isn't unusual for this period. There would be 2-foot components in both mixtures, and it would also be possible to create a 2-foot effect using the octave couplers.
My thoughts exactly, although I would have expected 2’ on a 3 manual organ. I find the 2’ adds the ‘sparkle’ and the mixtures can be a bit harsh in tone.
This building reminds me so much of the English Congregational Church in Carmarthen!!
Does it have an organ worth visiting?? 👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations It’s ok. Standard 2 manual. Vowles of Bristol.
I think the purpose of the pedal mutation is to combine with a 16ft stop to create a 'resultant' or 'harmonic' 32ft bass.
Correct. Adding a stop of 10 ⅔' pitch to a 16-foot stop generates an acoustic 32-foot effect. Ideally the quint should either be a separate rank, or should be drawn from a softer 16-foot rank such as a Bourdon, to be used against a louder rank such as an Open Wood.
I’ve learnt something new! The benefit of comments - thank you 👍🎹
It works on the principle of wave interference - the 16' plus 10 2/3' pipes have frequencies that constructively interfere (maximum amplitudes coinciding) at the correct frequency to produce a 32ft tone, although it's never as clear as a true 32ft. Any stop marked "acoustic" or "resultant" bass does the same thing automatically.
@ Actually the frequency generated is the difference between the two pitches. Subtract the frequency of the quint note from the frequency of the unison note and you get the frequency of a note one octave below that of the unison.
@@andrewgrahame6000 We said the same thing, I just described it in terms of the actual physical process, which if you plotted in the time domain would show the peaks coinciding with the frequency as you describe. We can't hear "subtracted" sound, what we're really hearing is the addition of two complex waveforms.
The 57 stop Armley Schulze organ also lacks a 2 foot stop, however both organs are good for congregational singing or accompanying vocals etc. The church really looks after the organ well!
At least it has a mixture, the organ in my local RC church used to just have up to 4 foot in the manuals (no mixture) but had a 16 foot stop on the swell and a resultant 32 foot in the pedals oddly. It did have sub and super octave couplers for the swell though so i guess you could get a 2 ft sound on the swell that way. Thankfully now it is much better specced now
Always sound so dull without the 2’ option in my opinion 👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations Indeed, a 2ft is great for when you want a bright sound but not as bright as a mixture.
Interesting, but it could be that the mixtures are subsituting for the lack of 2fts....still a nice organ.
I certainly think that’s the case, but the mixtures can be overpowering and it would be nice to have independent 2fts 👍🎹
I've seen that before, and it makes sense in a way, the builders maybe thought there was no point to put a 2 ft in by itself and just have it as a mixture, but i personally prefer a separate 2 foot and then anything above as a mixture is fine I would be interested to know the composition of the mixture
There is a link in the video description to the NPOR - a direct link to this organ with that information 👍🎹
Good to see you back again, and with another fine organ. "Battleship Binns" had a reputation of being a bit loud and brash, but this sounds very refined. Nice one.
Indeed! Hope you’re well and maybe see you over the New Year 👍🎹
at the start the hymn was o come o come Emanuel
Sure was! Lovely Advent hymn 👍🎹
The Bourdon 16 is better on the pedal than the great.
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I still think I'd like another stop rather than a 16' on the manuals! Having said that, I do like an organ with Swell to Great Sub Octave - which I guess turns all the 8' Swell stops into 16' stops?! If you use the 16' stop with the 2' stop and then play it up an octave you can get quite a Baroque sound: nice for Bach. The two string stops on the Swell are great! Well done you for combining them so beautifully. As you said "Absolutely lovely" - I couldn't agree more. It was so spooky that you played "Let all mortal flesh". Our organist used that stop combination (as did I) as that melody and stops sound perfect together. The tremulant sounds a bit of a 'theatre organ' sound (very "Sale of the Century") Very well done. Another great video and a lovely organ.
Thanks for your comment and agree with all you said! Hope you have subscribed 👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I have (for quite a while now!!)
What is the introductory music? It's so familiar....
You know what? I can’t remember 😱 I’ll check for you and respond with an answer. Thanks for watching and hope you have subscribed 👍🎹
As a newbie I was confused by the 16' manual stops (even on my home electronic) but with some guidance from a "proper" organist mate I can see how much they add in a full organ sound, and pretty much any romantic or early 20th century music really benefits. When my friend registered the Bridge Adagio for me, it was like chalk and cheese: from a thin, aggressive racket to a robust, composed fortissimo. The trouble with organ playing is we don't get to hear the fruits of our playing "in the space". 16' tone sounds muddy at the console but glorious in the building.
I have indeed been converted for reasons you mention! You’re also right that we organists never get to hear the wonderful sounds that the organ is making from the console. Thank you and hope you’re subscribed 👍🎹
Good for you for being a traditionalist. Electric crap, praise bands...rubbish. Vapid tosh. Not that every Victorian hymn was a masterpiece, but the sound of a pipe organ moves the soul like nothing else.
Couldn’t agree more! 😊👍🎹
The church web site states: "The first division of our organ (the great) was installed in 1872 by Forster and Andrews at a cost of £100. An upgrade followed in 1890 with the addition of the swell and pedal organs at a cost of over £300." So much earlier than the 1950s. The organ building firm of F.D. (not F.C.) Ward of Middlesbrough was founded later by Francis Duncan Ward in 1911; he was active in a small way until the late 1930s.
Thank you for the information. I had not seen the church website details. Appreciated 👍🎹
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I do not like organ tremolo.
Neither do I 🙂👍🎹
Thank you, again, for showing us a fascinating organ! I find tremulants to be extremely useful, in most schools of organ composition, baroque as well as romantic or 20th century.
Thanks for watching! I must confess, I’m not a big fan of tremulants. I find them too ‘theatre organy’ for want of a better term. I much prefer a natural beat from Vox Celestes etc. Each to their own though. Appreciate your comment and you watching 🙂👍🎹
The organ wasn’t made for playing baroque music, but to lead a worship service. It sounds great as it is.
Totally agree - but maybe a mixture on the Gt and a reed on the pedals? 👍🎹
Two 8ft Open Diapasons on the Great seems a bit extravagant on a small organ. I would have preferred to have a Mixture III. Having said that, it's a fine organ and obviously well loved. Nice presentation.
Agree with the mixture III…a few have suggested that. I would also like to have seen a reed on the pedals? 👍🎹
Sounds really good, beautiful organ, great rebuild. But.... why two Open Diapasons 8" ? Maybe a Mixture on the Great would have done it!
Totally agree! A mixture would make all the difference and a reed on the pedals perhaps? 👍🎹
I love the Dulciana stop. Sometimes it serves as another Diapason depending on how it's voiced 😊 Toe pistons are a Godsend when you're playing something like a piece like a toccata where all your fingers and thumbs are otherwise busy & you need a registration change but have no console assistant, especially on a larger organ with limited registration aids!
Good point, although probably too many on this particular organ for its size? 👍🎹
Beautiful sounding organ. And as always, excellently demonstrated by playing the registers one by
Thank you, and thank you for watching 👍🎹
An interesting instrument. Overall it has a nice light sound. The principal chorus sounds a bit transparent, dare I say almost string like. I assume the tracker action was removed because it was worn out. To me the tremulant needs to be slowed down. This isn’t a theatre organ! I have to wonder at the thinking behind the plethora of toe studs and pistons and lighting options.
I'm not sure about the original tracker action to be honest but I assume that will be the case. Toe pistons are certainly excessive and the lighting is just a novelty I guess. Unfortunately I wasn't able to demonstrate that - for reasons I explained 🙂👍🎹
@@OrganicVisitations I have a hunch that these toe pistons and totally unnecessary lighting was at the request and whim of an organist and the church were persuaded to fund it. This has been a story I have come across countless times.
Tend to agree 👍
I also don’t think that any tonal revisons have been implemented. It obviously fulfils its role as an accompaniment aid to worship and a degree of romantic organ repertoire. The absence of upper work is typical from this period.
Perhaps "cost a fortune" is putting the church of from maintaining its asset. I would guess that a two-day tuning visit would transform the sound and, with outside help and a couple of "demonstration concerts" (perhaps 20-30 minutes, aimed at the congregation) they might think of using it for outreach through music. Someone else has commented on Conacher (and other Victorian organs) being built like a battleship, but that has contributed to its survival. I hope that the church can be encouraged to treat it with a little respect. To build new would cost possibly half a million and it should be insured for that. But as a second hand instrument it would have to be given away, so for sale purposes valueless. The fact that significant work was carried out only 40 years ago hints that the position is not impossible to salvage. I hope.
The cost is usually what holds people back - and they end up with a digital something or an other. Such a shame 👍😳🎹
Thank you for a) the demonstration and b) the link to the NPOR listing. Something which we be useful if everyone did. If you don't mind, I'll pinch that idea! Your demonstration was very thorough, perhaps you could have shown the difference between the Great Open I and Principal and Open II and Principal, and then add the Piccolo. Incidentally, that Piccolo sounds like a compromise between a Fifteenth stop and a Piccolo. This was not uncommon at the time it was originally built: builders knew that a 2' flute stop wd not be much use in helping leading the singing (the main purpose of the organ then) so, even when a Piccolo was specified they wd make it as like a Fifteenth as they dared.
Thank you for watching! Point taken about additional demonstrations - taken on board 👍🎹
A very fine and well restored organ with a splendid tone which obviously does its job of accompanying the Hymn singing and Liturgy very well. I think the expense of providing so many playing aids. (Foot pistons etc) is excessive. However,In my opinion this money would have been better spent on two or three tonal changes which would have increased the versatility of the instrument. On the Great, the Piccolo be revoiced as a Fifteenth to fully complement the Diapason chorus and the introduction of a Twelfth (Probably in place of the Dulciana which sounds like a small third Open Diapason) On the Swell substitute the Bourdon by a Mixture. On the Pedal, the addition of a Reed (Trombone) At the moment the organ is mainly suitable for Romantic repertoire but somewhat limiting for the performance of baroque repertoire (J.S.Bach for instance)
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Wow, so it was rebuilt with Electric Action? My late Grandparents also lived in Yarm during the latter part of their life so I visited them quite often, until we had to move them closer to us due to Grandad's dementia, which he would pass away a year later. I never got to go in this church as it was locked everytime I passed by, but I still remember Yarm well. And if I am not mistaken, dunno if he still does, one of Iron Maiden's guitarists live here.
Yes, Janick Gers lives there. It’s a nice little town, and like you, have had a hard time getting in. Worth the wait though 👍🎹
Janick Get lives there 👍🎹