Organ matters - Organs matter!

Hi all,

I hope no one minds me registering here just to ask for information and help !  I'm not an organist or indeed a musician of any kind unfortunately although I do love almost all forms of music from current bands to classical and virtually everything in between including theatre organs and especially church pipe organs. Sadly, all musically ability in my family ended with my father though.  My father, his father and various other relatives on his side of the family were church organists and competent musicians in general but no one since then ever has been.

Anyway, he had a practice organ at home which he used regularly for several decades but the only obvious information I've found on it so far is that it's a Compton "Cantata".  It's a 2 manual electronic organ with a full size concave peddle board and internal speakers.  A search on youtube brings up 2 videos apparently of a Compton Cantata organ in a chapel near Wrexham and it looks virtually identical to this although it may well be quite different internally of course. I do remember seeing the back off it during one annual clean and service donkey's years ago and I think there were loads of possibly aluminium discs or pulleys driven by a motor and a long belt ... just in case that might mean anything at all to anyone who may know about somewhat ancient Compton organs !  It hasn't been touched let alone played since 2002 when my father died.  It had been "part of the family" so to speak for so long that doing anything other than just leaving it exactly where it sat wasn't something that was even contemplated. Sadly my mother has recently passed away and I'm now faced with the unenviable task of having to do something with it along with everything else because the way things stand at the moment I'm being left with no choice but to clear and sell the house :(

I'm therefore trying to find any information that I possibly can about the organ in the vain hope of ultimately being able to find it a new home if I can provide sufficient technical details about it so that people know what it actually is. As I said previously, I can't play so it would be of absolutely no use to me even if I had somewhere to put it but hopefully it would be of benefit to someone somewhere despite it's age.  Nothing would please me more than to know that it's being played once again and I really don't want to even think about the possibility of it ending up on the tip.

So, does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about how to identify exactly what it is, obtain the relevant specifications or attempt to find it a good home ?  I intend carefully withdrawing the peddle board so I can pull the console away from the wall to check the back and inside for any model or serial numbers there might be when I get the time and opportunity. I can also take some pictures if that would be useful.  Any help or suggestions that anyone can provide would certainly be very much appreciated that's for sure. Many thanks.