I would like to share the details of my next organ project, which hopefully will happen.
I hope to relocate this organ to the church I play at in the same diocese
http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10804
St Francis has recently closed its doors due to the rather common problem of a leaky roof, dwindling numbers and the high cost of building upkeep.
Here is a link with a few photos describing my visit to see the organ
http://www.thecavendishorgan.com/news.htm
As the article says, my visit was just a fact-finding mission, i.e. taking measurements, try the organ for sound and generally looking at its construction.
I hope to keep you up to date about the progress of my mission (I am naming this a mission as it may take some doing!)
Watch this space
Marc
With the prospect of being involved in a similar project , hopefully in the not too distant future, I for one look forward to reading about progress, the difficulties you encounter, and how you overcome them.
Good luck and very best wishes for your project.
Hi
That looks very much like the Rushworth & Dreaper extension organ in Warrior Square Baptist Church, Hastings, that I used to play occasionally - see http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=E00165
Quite a reasonable organ of its type - although marred by a poor implementation of double-touch cancelling on the stop keys - far too light a 2nd touch spring, and cancelling enabled on such stupidities as Mixtures & Sw-Gt coupler! If yours is the same, you might want to consider Compton type stop tabs.
Hope the project goes well - don't forget to let NPOR know once things are decided.
Every Blessing
Tony
Just out of interest, was the cancelling arrangement on the stop keys of this organ the system sometimes used by R&D in which each one had a small black auxiliary tab at the top of each key?
TG
Holy Spirit Harlescotte Shrewsbury was very similar and there were no black cancelling devices over the stopkeys. The whole range of organs in this series were well built and voiced.
I much prefered these to the Walker alternatives with repeating mixtures.
Barrie
Hi
@Twangguitar No - it's like the Compton system (I guess R&D used it after they'd taken Compton over - but the 2nd touch springs were far too weak. I've never had problems on a Compton with unintentionally triggering the 2nd touch cancel - but on that R&D it was a perpetual headache! To operate it you just depress the stop key beyond the normal "on" position, where another contact makes which cancels everything else drawn on that manual - very useful at times.
Every Blessing
Tony
Good look with this project! I have played a couple of extension organs and they prove very effective indeed I find! I hope to save and Nelson quite close to where I live as, like many others, the church is closing. Granted Nelson weren't the best quality, this is a Nelson rebuild (original builder unknown) and is quite a fine little instrument worth saving.
Any tips on how you've been getting on with your 'mission' would be gratefully received! :D