Lovely image Elizabeth. I'd love to know a little about your pipe organ, and I'd love to see some shots of the case and the front pipes. They are speaking and not just ornamental I trust? A tracker of course? New or old?
@frankhymus Organ is a William Hill (1906) Some superficial modernising in 1970s has recently been undone by our expert organ builder ... thanks to a grant from a restoration fund. I don't know too much about it ... but have photographs in various places ... will find links for you.
@elizabeth Thank you for the information Elizabeth. I am most familiar with William Hill. His "magnum opus" is the Town Hall Organ in Sydney Australia, magnificetly restored by the brilliant Roger Pogson of Sydney. It is a very different organ in scale and technogy from St Nicholas' though. I am so glad that St Nicholas' is being restored to its orginal form, and I hope that is also the pipes and voicing as well as the facade. It is, after all, the sound that matters. Perhaps "superficial" means the pipes and their voicing went unharmed in the 1970's. Fortunate if that was the case. You are so fortunate to have found the funding for the restoration.
@frankhymus Yes ... thankfully the important part of the organ was left untouched but carefully maintained ... a new trumpet has been added in the restoration process but, with regular servicing and routine twice-a-year servicing the instrument is in fine condition. The pipes had once been highly decorated (can be seen in old photographs) but the 70s saw that work painted out! The neighbouring church of Saint Thomas also has a William Hill built just a year or two before our organ. It is slightly larger.
posted May 19th, 2013
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