Organ matters - Organs matter!

It is indeed a fantastic instrument.  I used to play it for assembly most days when it was still a Grammar School.  It has a bright crisp sound, a magnificent full organ and the hall has about a 3 second resonance.  It has open wooden panelling around the sides and this lets the sound flood out.  A sound worthy of any cathedral.  I can't believe it could be destroyed.  The blower is under the floor of the main hall entrance accessed through a lift-off trap door.  It used to trip out every now and again and I would have to get the lifting keys from the caretaker to get down to re-set it.  There are passageways under the hall corridors with graffiti on the walls from firewatchers in the war.  Typical that the authorities have no consideration for the heritage in their care; just rip it out and destroy it.  Progress!!!

One further thought, the blower is under the main entrance foyer of the great hall.  Access is through a trap door in the main entrance foyer floor.  Every now and again the blower would trip out and I would have to borrow the lifting keys from the caretaker to lift off the trap door to get below to the little room containing the blower and reset the trip.  I never did work out how the main wind line ascends to the organ balcony.

When I discovered this thread my heart nearly stopped as I used to play this organ every day when I was at school (when it was Wyggy Boys' still).  THe Great Hall had a fantastic acoustic with about a 3 second resonance.  The organ is on the gallery at the back of the hall and has a low panelled surround which let the whole sound flood out.  It is a superb sound, very bright and full organ is fantastic.

If I didn't already have two cinema organs I would try to save it myself.  It would be fairly easy to remove as access is good.  It has a sister instrument which was in the contemporary Wyggeston Girls school but that was very boxed in and the sound was nowhere near as good.  I don't know if that organ is still extant.

I can't believe the short sightedness of the decision but that is what I suppose is called progress.  Tragic I say.

Hi,

I have 30 and 32 note pedalboards surplus to requirements.  Peterborough area.

Tony