[When Closing The Organ Down After Use.]

Two if you count dust from building works being spread throughout the organ.

 

JA

And all join in in the chorus, "And it all makes work for the working man to do...."

[When Closing The Organ Down After Use.]

One way of getting around this if the instrument has vertical shutters would be to have a piece of rope or cord attached at one end to a reservoir and the other attached to the shutter rod, this would mean when the organ is turned off, the EPn shutter motor will still close the shutters like it normally would, but as the reservoir deflates it will pull the shutters back open slightly. However I don't know if this solution could work on horizontal shutters (maybe if they are balanced).

 

JA

It works with horizontal shutters also. Just have the cord running up and over a pulley to the cock rod on the shutters, and as the reservoir deflates, the cord gets pulled around the pulley and hey presto, an open swell box.

(Of course there is one distinct disadvantage to leaving the swell box open. When some [insert expletive here :angry: ] tries to burn the church building down and the heat blast hits the wonderful 1905 Hill 3M , the heat melts the tops of all the bass pipes in the open swell box. But if the box is left closed, as the choir box was, the pipework remains safe from waves of superheated air.)

[Howlers]

Another quote from a fault book, "... Also, can you lessen the tremulant so that it sounds less like Mrs Miller."

 

[For those of you too young to remember Mrs Elva Miller in her prime as one of the greatest classical pop crossover singers of the 1960's and 70's, I suggest hunting down a recording and playing it on the highest quality sound system you can lay your hands on. Her technique was truly amazing.]

[Howlers]

Or how about this one from a fault book, "Bottom E on the Pedal Violone sounds like a Skil Saw going through a nail."

[Nicholson & Lord]

Hi

 

There's no record of any organ builder named Davenport in te Dictionary of British Organ Builders - but that's not necessarily proof that he didn't work for N&L.

 

Every Blessing

 

Tony

 

Thanks, so I have to trace the name via the old fashioned methods, 1911 census (depending on the price to order them), electoral rolls, and other genealogical devices.

I read on one website that Nicholson & Co (Worcester) are the successors to Nicholson & Lords, however I cannot confirm that anywhere else nor does Nicholson & Co website mention the fact either. Can anyone provide a definitive answer?

[Reed Pipe Scaling]

I have decided there will be four reeds on the organ; Bassoon 16p on Pedal, Clarionet 8p on Great, Trumpet 8p and Hautboy 8p on Swell.

So yes I would like the scales to plan the layout.

 

JA

As you were saying you had the measurements of the C's, it's a simple matter of then getting hold of a set of pipe scaling disks and finding the right progression in the series to match the measurements from the C's that you have with the 11 intermediate disks until your next definite measurement being the C an octave higher. That way you can lay out your soundboard on a one to one scale, which helps in planning slides, bearers, screws, access for little things like hands, fingers reed knives etc... and to also plan the positions of you stays.

 

CTT

[Reed Pipe Scaling]

Are you planning what type and style of reed stop you want in the organ? Or have you decided that and are wanting the scale of each note so you can plan the layout of the soundboard?

CTT

[Nicholson & Lord]

There is one Nicholson & Lord in New Zealand (North Island) that is fully attributed to them. There was an organbuilder in the South Island (1905-1930) who I suspect imported at least one complete N&L organ and slapped his nameplate on it, (he did that with at least five G&D's), as well as parts for other organs he 'enlarged'. I have looked in one of the soundboards on one of the South Island jobs (Knox Presbyterian Christchurch) and found the name T.W. Davenport May 1914, an employee of N&L? They provided a three manual pneumatic console for this job, complete with their nameplate - no false advertising on this job!- however the purses on the coupler units do not line up fully with the mushroom dollies and so the repetition is not as fast as I would like it to be.

CTT