Summer suns are glowing - Chris Lawton at Sleaford Methodist Church, Lincolnshire
- 12 years ago
Me playing the organ at Sleaford Methodist Church, Lincolnshire.
The organ was built by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd in 1950 at a cost of £1030 for North Kyme Methodist Church just a few miles away and is the 2 rank 'Miniatura' model. It was described as being 'the best organ in the area'. In 1982, the church closed and so the organ was installed here with the enclosed pipework at the rear of the church and the console at the front on the left. New solid state action was fitted throughout but tonally the organ remains as originally built and is a very nice installation. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Bourdon 16'
Flute 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Principal 4'
Fifteenth 2'
SWELL
Open Diapason 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Flute 4'
Piccolo 2'
For this first video im playing the beautiful hymn 'Summer suns are glowing' to the tune 'Ruth' even though the weather at the time was anything but!
Many thanks to Geoff Pallister for allowing me access to this little gem of a Compton organ and for making me so welcome.
NOTE: this is purely my interest in order to make sure that these fine organs are archived forever and I do not make any monetary profit by this video being on dailymotion.
For more information on the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and to see me play other Compton organs, please click on the following link for my site dedicated to the John Compton Organ Company Ltd:
http://comptonorgans.yolasite.com/
The organ was built by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd in 1950 at a cost of £1030 for North Kyme Methodist Church just a few miles away and is the 2 rank 'Miniatura' model. It was described as being 'the best organ in the area'. In 1982, the church closed and so the organ was installed here with the enclosed pipework at the rear of the church and the console at the front on the left. New solid state action was fitted throughout but tonally the organ remains as originally built and is a very nice installation. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Bourdon 16'
Flute 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Principal 4'
Fifteenth 2'
SWELL
Open Diapason 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Flute 4'
Piccolo 2'
For this first video im playing the beautiful hymn 'Summer suns are glowing' to the tune 'Ruth' even though the weather at the time was anything but!
Many thanks to Geoff Pallister for allowing me access to this little gem of a Compton organ and for making me so welcome.
NOTE: this is purely my interest in order to make sure that these fine organs are archived forever and I do not make any monetary profit by this video being on dailymotion.
For more information on the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and to see me play other Compton organs, please click on the following link for my site dedicated to the John Compton Organ Company Ltd:
http://comptonorgans.yolasite.com/