Jonathan Lane Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Do any of you good people out there have a photo of a moderately large 3-manual Walker stop-key console? We are rebuilding an organ and installing a second-hand console, which is in pieces in the workshop, and I need to use the photo on a display in the church. Having spent a number of hours trawling the internet, I have come up with nothing. Your help would be appreciated. Email me direct. :angry: Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Coram Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Do any of you good people out there have a photo of a moderately large 3-manual Walker stop-key console? We are rebuilding an organ and installing a second-hand console, which is in pieces in the workshop, and I need to use the photo on a display in the church. Having spent a number of hours trawling the internet, I have come up with nothing. Your help would be appreciated. Email me direct. :angry: Jonathan Try Buckfast Abbey or St Michael's Southampton, which is 2m but of the usual horsehoe type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip J Wells Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Do any of you good people out there have a photo of a moderately large 3-manual Walker stop-key console? We are rebuilding an organ and installing a second-hand console, which is in pieces in the workshop, and I need to use the photo on a display in the church. Having spent a number of hours trawling the internet, I have come up with nothing. Your help would be appreciated. Email me direct. :angry: Jonathan Try the NPOR entry for Northumberland (Tyne and Wear), Newcastle upon Tyne--Fenham, St. James and St. Basil [R01095] which has a 3 man Walker stop key console and org in nearly original condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 St Mary's Prestwich, North Manchester. There is a suitable picture in the NPOR entry. I imagine that NPOR editoral team would need to be approached for permission to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DouglasCorr Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 The Church of Christ the King, Gordon Square, London has a large 3 manual Walker console with stop keys - but I don't know where you will find a picture... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Dutfield Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Do any of you good people out there have a photo of a moderately large 3-manual Walker stop-key console? The NPOR has a good photo of the Ryde Town Hall console which exactly fits the bill. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newnham Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Try the NPOR entry for Northumberland (Tyne and Wear), Newcastle upon Tyne--Fenham, St. James and St. Basil [R01095] which has a 3 man Walker stop key console and org in nearly original condition. Hi Contact Frances at the NPOR office - we should be able to trace the photographer and sort something out. The pics on the web site are low resolution. Every Blessing Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drd Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Try NPOR N11610 - Portsmouth Cathedral. The third photograph is of the old Walker stopkey console, which I remember wielding, years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paul@trinitymusic.karoo.co.uk Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Try NPOR N11610 - Portsmouth Cathedral. The third photograph is of the old Walker stopkey console, which I remember wielding, years ago. This is the very same console which now occupies pride of place in Paul Hale's office in Southwell. He has built an extension organ which it controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 This is the very same console which now occupies pride of place in Paul Hale's office in Southwell. He has built an extension organ which it controls. How fascinating! Is there any info on this anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest paul@trinitymusic.karoo.co.uk Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 How fascinating! Is there any info on this anywhere? You would have to contact Paul yourself, I'm afraid. He's very approachable (but also very busy). Southwell Minster is stuffed with organs, you could see several if you timed it right. His postal address is 4 Vicars' Court, Southwell, NG25 0HP There are the big two in the Minster proper: Three-manual in the nave (by Binns rebuilt by Wood of Huddersfield) and four-manual Nicholson on the Quire screen (incorporating older Nicholson pipes). Then there is a one-manual Grant Degens and Bradbeer in the Minster and a two-manual Grant Degens and Bradbeer on electric action (largely on extension lines) in the Song School. It must be a year since I was last over there, so Paul may well have collected a further organ since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 You would have to contact Paul yourself, I'm afraid. He's very approachable (but also very busy).Southwell Minster is stuffed with organs, you could see several if you timed it right. His postal address is 4 Vicars' Court, Southwell, NG25 0HP There are the big two in the Minster proper: Three-manual in the nave (by Binns rebuilt by Wood of Huddersfield) and four-manual Nicholson on the Quire screen (incorporating older Nicholson pipes). Then there is a one-manual Grant Degens and Bradbeer in the Minster and a two-manual Grant Degens and Bradbeer on electric action (largely on extension lines) in the Song School. It must be a year since I was last over there, so Paul may well have collected a further organ since then. Thanks for that. I know the old and new(er) Southwell organs - but didn't know anything about Paul's house organ - maybe I will give him a ring sometime! Incidentally, I took my choir there for a week just after the Nicholson was finished. The pedal digital reeds had not been finally voiced and they were so loud - I seem to remember the boys looking quite awe-struck at the end of the gloria at eucharist! Best wishes, Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Voix Mystique Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Christ Church Esher has just got rid of such a console: I don't know what's happened to it. Walker built the organ in 1886 and have rebuilt/enlarged/overhauled/restored it in 1911, 1917, 1931 (when the stopkey console was installed), 1966, 1983 and 2006 (when the console was replaced with a drawstop one). Here is a picture of the old console: http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PSearch...N13689&no=1 And the survey up to before the 2006 restoration: http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...ec_index=N13689 The new survey: http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...ec_index=P00204 The new console: http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PSearch...P00204&no=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Voix Mystique Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 St. Matthew's, Walsall (see http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...c_index=N03192) was rebuilt in 1953 with a 4-manual stopkey console - a picture of which can be found at http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PSearch...N03192&no=2 - which was retained in a rebuild in the late 90s by Nicholson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazman Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 St. Matthew's, Walsall (see http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...c_index=N03192) was rebuilt in 1953 with a 4-manual stopkey console - a picture of which can be found at http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PSearch...N03192&no=2 - which was retained in a rebuild in the late 90s by Nicholson. I couldn't get the link for St. Matthew, Walsall to work. Try this instead:- http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...ec_index=N03192 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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