Mark Taylor Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 I have just submitted a photo’ of St. Ethelreda's church, West Quantoxhead, Somerset to NPOR. It’s an attractive looking organ with highly decorated pipes. Here are two pictures in large format. I wonder whether some areas of the country are more likely to have this type of decoration? On the other hand, maybe it is not a regional thing; more likely, I suppose, to be related to date and builder(?). What other examples are there of this sort of decoration in parish churches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 There are quite a few examples on Flickr, particularly from East Anglia. Here is a random selection (often best viewed large): http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirech...57594566173226/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/therevsteve/2058648249/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordspudz/2440539861/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/broadsmarshman/2423750556/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/47739389@N00/771882003/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2412905143/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/819026798/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentaco/504167719/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklin_hunting/2396296550/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2298325316/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2140833111/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/samhirst6359/2333852706/ The decorated organ pipes that most readily come to my mind are those at St Geroge's, Windsor, which for my taste are are a bit OTT. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a decent photo of the organ online. The only one I could find that gives any impression is: http://www.heraldav.co.uk/images/photo_rogerjudd.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 More (but not parish churches): http://www.flickr.com/photos/tet_sy/486560179/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2434299009/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 And, though it's not in this country, I do like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathb/9281373...57594055953650/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathb/9281378...57594055953650/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Exeter College Chapel, Oxford - Hill originally, I think. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Taylor Posted June 11, 2008 Author Share Posted June 11, 2008 And, though it's not in this country, I do like this one: Details of this organ are here. I wonder what a Pajarito is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 A bit of Googling reveals that "parajito" means "little bird". So I guess it would be a toy stop of the (so-called) Nightingale variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justadad Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Yes, it's a bird whistle. http://www.theatreorgans.com/cotos/Stoptab...toptab0301c.htm J A bit of Googling reveals that "parajito" means "little bird". So I guess it would be a toy stop of the (so-called) Nightingale variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Here's a nice one near us. AJJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cynic Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 By total coincidence, on Monday and Tuesday of this week I and a party of helpers took down one of the organs featured in Vox Humana's list of photographs. The decorated front will be retained to screen the Makin organ that is being installed, but there were four decorated pipes within the organ, explained by the fact that the organ has been moved twice in this church and was originally built for a private house. The organ in question is at Bodicote near Banbury, and part of the front pipe display can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirech...57594566173226/ bottom row, second from the left. I know what some of you are thinking...'how come Cynic is helping people commit vandalism?' Well, this instrument was (by anyone's estimation) long overdue for a rebuild and had already been messed about (Swell went 8.8.8.4.Nazard.CollapsedOboe) and funds simply didn't allow for further improvements to an organ which despite some decent pipework was ineffective in the body of the church. Anyway... Anyone want a slightly dented, superbly decorated Bevington display pipe? It'd give you a splendid conversation piece! I have two approximately 9' long and one around 6'. The fourth one went to the rectory; I wish I'd been able to take a photo of youngish keen clergyman cycling off with his display pipe held like a medieval knight's lance. I haven't the heart to take the survivors to the scrap man but this is probably what'll have to happen...... [Thinks: There ought to be a society to prevent such things happening. Mind you, we'd have to be really careful who we choose to be chairman. ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip J Wells Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 For those who have not heard it I can recommend Paul Hale's illustrated lecture "painted pipes make merrier music" (at least that is what it was called for the 3 Choirs Festival at Worcester). Over 280 slides. Details at http://www.paulhale.org/lecture.php . PJW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusingMuso Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I go to graphic-display places and print-colour works quite often. I couldn't help thinking, on reading this thread, that nowadays it would be so easy for everyone and everywhere to have decorated pipes. They could produce standard designs and sell them as clear, sticky rolls, to wrap around organ-pipes like wallpaper. We could have new designs every few years, with all sorts of themes. We could have "Smartie" organ-pipes, "Floral" organ pipes, "Flame effect" organ pipes or organ-pipes with humbug stripes. We could even have the "Andy Warhol organ pipe", resembling a stack of coke-cans. Sell a few of them at Christie's, and the instrument would be self-financing. I think we should run with this idea. MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I go to graphic-display places and print-colour works quite often. I couldn't help thinking, on reading this thread, that nowadays it would be so easy for everyone and everywhere to have decorated pipes. They could produce standard designs and sell them as clear, sticky rolls, to wrap around organ-pipes like wallpaper. We could have new designs every few years, with all sorts of themes. We could have "Smartie" organ-pipes, "Floral" organ pipes, "Flame effect" organ pipes or organ-pipes with humbug stripes. We could even have the "Andy Warhol organ pipe", resembling a stack of coke-cans. Sell a few of them at Christie's, and the instrument would be self-financing. I think we should run with this idea. MM The decorated pipes at St Michael's, Tenbury are quite extraordinary, imo. There's a photo on npor but it's not brilliant. To find St Michael's on npor you put in Worcestershire and St Michael's in the search address, for some reason Tenbury doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 The decorated pipes at St Michael's, Tenbury are quite extraordinary, imo. There's a photo on npor but it's not brilliant. There's a better one at fig 2 on this page. Click on the thumbnail to view large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Godden Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 St Hilary Spridlington in Lincolnshire. Organ by Thomas Nicholson (1878), front pipes decorated by "Lambert of Lincoln". Andrew Carter has just restored this organ. See his website http://www.ajcarterorganbuilder.co.uk/Spri...n%20Article.htm, and the NPOR entry http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...ec_index=D04214 which has a good picture of the front pipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newnham Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 The decorated pipes at St Michael's, Tenbury are quite extraordinary, imo. There's a photo on npor but it's not brilliant. To find St Michael's on npor you put in Worcestershire and St Michael's in the search address, for some reason Tenbury doesn't work. Hi Tenbury doesn't work because the church is in a village, not in the town! The low-res pictures are for copyright reasons (and server space/download time). Every Blessing Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveHarries Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Here's a nice one near us. AJJ Nice looking organ, Alastair: where is that one? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Nice looking organ, Alastair: where is that one? Dave Sutton Veny near Warminster. AJJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Godden Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 I go to graphic-display places and print-colour works quite often. I couldn't help thinking, on reading this thread, that nowadays it would be so easy for everyone and everywhere to have decorated pipes. They could produce standard designs and sell them as clear, sticky rolls, to wrap around organ-pipes like wallpaper. We could have new designs every few years, with all sorts of themes. We could have "Smartie" organ-pipes, "Floral" organ pipes, "Flame effect" organ pipes or organ-pipes with humbug stripes. We could even have the "Andy Warhol organ pipe", resembling a stack of coke-cans. Sell a few of them at Christie's, and the instrument would be self-financing. I think we should run with this idea. MM Some yeras ago I attended Sunday Mass at the Roman Catholic Church at Schull, deep in the far South-west of Ireland. There was a pipe organ, but it wasn't used. The locked detached console gave every appearance of a small cheap single manual extension organ. But the organ front was beyond belief. Clearly, someone manufactures sheets of plastic imitation organ piping by the roll, and a length or two of this fronted the real gubbins. I know that some church finishers specialise in bad taste, but thuis about took the biscuit. Almost worth going out of your way to see - you wouldn't believe it unless you did! Peter Godden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsoff Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 I've just returned from two weeks holiday in Dulverton, Somerset where there is a Walker organ of 1860 - 1870 vintage, restored by Geo. Osmond of Taunton. I did not manage to hear the organ played although there is a recital on Monday next. Typical... The Open Diapason pipes above the console are a delight but I apologise for the poor quality of the picture; I did not take a sufficiently wide-angle lens. One is to hope that the tea lights in the little jars are not to be used! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Here is our local methodist church - quite a riot of decoration - and an interesting history to the organ too if you follow it back from this entry. A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Thorne Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 St. Nicholas Gt Munden. I helped a bit in 1999 with it's installation on the newly made gallery. http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi...ec_index=D01304 J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT_Worcester Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Gloucester Cathedral is one of the better-known examples of decorated pipes. Most of the display pipes are (i) painted, and (ii) speaking, the main exception being the gilded display pipes in the chaire case which are, in fact, made of wood. Both East and West fronts are decorated in this way. The pipe shades on the West front are painted as well, rather than carved. As is well documented elsewhere, the chaire case was dated (by Rev F.W Sutton) as 1579, and the main case (by Thomas Harris) - I think - 1665 or 6. Both cases were extensively restored in 1971 at the time of the HN&B rebuild. http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/gallery/...nicholson.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotto Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 There's also this one just up the road from Gloucester of course, on which I had the pleasure to play Howells St. Paul's plus Elgar Spirit of the Lord for evensong on Monday this week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heva Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Up another road from Gloucester there's this one. (It is isn't it?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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