Take heart. There were an awful lot of third rate instruments put into churches in the 19th and 20th centuries, we must not be sentimental about them. The tragedy is that people get wedded to the load of old junk and then pay a willing organ builder to restore it and it's still tonally deficient! The challenge is to find the first rate redundant organs worth keeping and put them where they will be used and valued even if means displacing a third rate instrument to make a new home for it. The organ's reputation would be much higher, like in the Netherlands, if we had only quality instruments
I'm organist of the Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood in London. We rescued a redundant 2 manual Bishop & Son of 1881 and now use it as the Chancel Organ. We also rescued the 3 manual Lewis & Co from St Mark's Battersea Rise and are currently fund raising to install this in the West Gallery and expect it to be at least partially working during 2017
I'm organist of the Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood in London. We rescued a redundant 2 manual Bishop & Son of 1881 and now use it as the Chancel Organ. We also rescued the 3 manual Lewis & Co from St Mark's Battersea Rise and are currently fund raising to install this in the West Gallery and expect it to be at least partially working during 2017