Colin Pykett Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Take a look at this then! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Five-Manual-Console-/261997176001?hash=item3d003fa4c1 Actually it's not bad value for money as it's advertised at £750 buy-it-now. If you could get it cheaper by bidding it would be even better. I have a lot of respect for the person who's selling it and would be very tempted to take it off his hands if I only had the space! CEP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Ditto Colin! I remember playing that console in it's original home (a great deal of it didn't work or was prepared for only). I found it very comfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrabombarde Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Whilst I generally recoil from stoptab consoles I must confess that I find the Walker curving quadrant jambs with their distinctive curved pointy tabs (am I right in thinking they are known as "elephant tusks"?) very attractive to look at and comfortable to play. That console is a beauty, totally different from the later Nicholson drawstop console (which I also find very handsome in its own way). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Drinkell Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 I wonder if Walkers' got the idea for the shape of their stop-keys from Rothwell when the two firms collaborated at St. George's Chapel, Windsor I'm not a fan of this particular type, although I know several people who prefer it (my own preference for tabs is the Willis type, both for their shape and the positive feel to their operation), but in some ways I think they should have kept the Walker console at Doncaster. In its way, it was an important piece of history, like the Schulze pipework. Not that it's any of my business! Perhaps some benefactor would buy the console and donate it back to Doncaster as an exhibit. incidentally, when Hill, Norman & Beard rebuilt and enlarged the organ at Lion Walk United Reformed Church, Colchester, there was a particular wish to retain Walker stop-keys on the new three-manual console. HN&B acquired the last examples in stock to make up the numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Pykett Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Perhaps some benefactor would buy the console and donate it back to Doncaster as an exhibit. That's a really nice idea. However I suspect the probability is greater than zero that they would say they'd rather have the money! CEP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoneuma Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Well spotted there Mr Pykett, and here's me thinking I needed to get out more whilst amiably ambling through eBay curios.... Good to see some decent photos of the old thing which was exceedingly easy to play and find your way around and it was a real looker. I imagine the seller knew what he was doing (and I do know who it is by the way!). It would indeed feel more at home in it's original place, it would make an ideal slave console. Top marks for the eagle eye, it looks to be in pretty good condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 ...and all along, I thought it was the Tewkesbury console (upon which I have played many years ago!). Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeron Glyn Preston Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 It is the ex-Tewkesbury console! http://www.paulderrett.co.uk/my_house_organ.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrossGeigen Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 But the console (very comfortable to play as others have said) pictured on the eBay sight looks identical to the Doncaster example..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Drinkell Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The console on Ebay is ex-Doncaster - the compass gives it away for a start (58/30: Tewkesbury was 61/32). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The console on Ebay is ex-Doncaster - the compass gives it away for a start (58/30: Tewkesbury was 61/32). As do the seller's notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeron Glyn Preston Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Duh! Sorry, didn't see the original notes, because I looked after the sale and didn't see the link. Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcnd5584 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 As do the seller's notes. And the names engraved on the stop-keys (click on a photograph....). David Drinkell - I believe that they were also (perhaps a touch unkindly) known as 'old ladies' teeth'. However, I agree with you; I much prefer draw-stops, but if I had to have a stop-key console, the Walker model was quite elegant. I wonder what happened to another, four-clavier console, which was recently disposed-of by a large church in the West Country....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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