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    Leeds Town Hall organ rebuild

    in Nuts and bolts

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    21 hours ago, DariusB said:

    Hi Andrew - The 32' Bourdon extension  is just to provide the quietest 32' tone when used eg with the strings (it will be quietened a little as it's too strong at the moment).  Its use at 10 2/3 pitch is more to reinforce the 32' Diapason - a little too quiet at the moment - which being the case pipes and relatively small scale, can't be strengthened much from its present level.  We already have a 10 2/3 as a separate rank but it's very quiet and we'll gain space in the case by deriving this rank from the Bourdon instead.  

    Incidentally for those who wish to attend the presentation on the 17th in person, the Town Hall box office is now up and running and you can get (free) tickets here

    https://www.leedstownhall.co.uk/whatson-event/meet-the-new-town-hall-organ/#

    The link for watching the event live on YouTube will also appear there.

     

    Thank you - makes perfect sense now. It was the Quint that was puzzling me rather than the soft 32'  Shows how important it is for those who know an instrument to be closely involved in rebuilds etc. 

    Roger Fisher

    in General discussion

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    I used to have an LP he made at Chester in the late 60s / early 70s that I nearly wore out.  Lots of "War Horses" - BWV 565 and 645, Karg-Elert "Nun Danket" (With Tuba coupled for the last few bars!) Whitlock 5 Short Pieces etc

    Organ for sale (with terraced house attached)

    in General discussion

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    On 15/03/2021 at 10:20, Choir Man said:

    From the floor plan and photos on RightMove it looks like most of the pipework is in bedroom 2 on the top floor. Also seems that most of it is enclosed - see shutters in the right of the attached photo:

     

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    Actually, they are not shutters - it's the slatted screen that formed the facade of the organ in the church

    Organ for sale (with terraced house attached)

    in General discussion

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    8 hours ago, John Robinson said:

    Thanks.  I assume all four ranks as listed were set up in the house as and where they could be fitted!

    A principal, a flute, a string and a reed.  What more could one ask for?

    It had been built for the church in 1957 using second-hand pipework. It was all enclosed apart from the bottom 12 of the Bourdon. The fluework was good, but the reed unit didn't blend awfully well - might have had there been a Mixture though. Looking at how it was laid out in the house, I don't know if anything was still enclosed. The spec was as follows in the church, with ranks shown as ABCD

    GREAT

    Open Diapason  8 A

    Stopped Diapason 8 B

    Principal 4 B

    Flute 4 B

    Twelfth 2.2/3 B

    Fifteenth 2 A

    SWELL

    Open Diapason 8 A

    Salicional 8 C

    Lieblich (sic) 8 B

    Gemshorn 4 A

    Salicet 4 C

    Nazard 2.2/3 B

    Horn 8 D

    Clarion 4 D

    PEDAL

    Bourdon 16 (From B)

    Bass Flute 8 B

    3 usual couplers

    3 pistons to Gt/Ped  3 to Sw  Thumb and Toe Reversers for Gt/P

    Piston setter board, and ventil switches for each rank

     

    I was never quite sure of the logic behind the Swell Nazard - I was too young at the time to have thought of using it with the Salicional as a synthetic Oboe!

    Looking for........

    in Organ Music

    Posted

    On 01/11/2020 at 16:02, OmegaConsort said:

    Hi Paul.

    I dont know whether you partake of Facebook, but some chap has been posting videos over the last few months of loads of Thiman's organ music (well played too). It has been quite fascinating. Whilst a lot of his output doesn't set the world alight, everything I have heard has been tuneful and well crafted. One or two of the pieces sound very fine indeed. Perhaps someone else has been watching these on Facebook and could provide a link?

    Bramwell Bourne is the chap - The Organ Music of Eric Thiman: https://www.facebook.com/The-Organ-Music-of-Eric-Thiman-101812721686630/

    Tickell Organs

    in General discussion

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Rowland Wateridge said:

    That has turned out to be the last organ built by the company.  Wolsey qualified his 2018 post (not quoted by bam) by saying that it may well be the last.  The company itself still existed on 5th March this year, as I have said, at the preliminary stage of a voluntary application to strike it off the Register of Companies.  When I checked the position, both the company and the application were ‘live’.  

    Clearly this is now academic, but just to make the point that the company remained in existence although seemingly inactive.

    Thanks for clarifying this.

    Finest Organ-builders of England

    in The Organ

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    On 23/10/2018 at 22:32, wolsey said:

    Sadly, I think that the teaching/practice organ built and installed this spring in the concert hall of the new music school at King's College School, Wimbledon may well be the last instrument by the firm of Kenneth Tickell and Company Ltd.

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    Re my recent post enquiring about Tickells, I regret having missed this post.  Apologies.

    Sheffield Cathedral

    in General discussion

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    I must admit I only listened once and posted my comment some time later.  Still not quite sure why a whole music department has to be dismantled in order to add to the repertoire though. I have no axe to grind over Sheffield Cathedral, which I have never visited, but am disturbed by this whole business and why we are not being told everything.  It sounds to me as though either someone was not up to the job, or someone was intent on finding fault wherever possible.....

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