19thC. Church / chamber pipe organ by TC Bates of London

This Historic small organ dating from approximately 1855 is currently in the organ builder's workshop awaiting purchase and restoration. It has four stops; Open Diapason 8', Clarabella 8', Principal 4', Fifteenth 2'. The casework is natural oak and the pipes you see are wooden dummies with a gesso and gold leaf finish. Inside are 212 metal and wood pipes which produce the tone.

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Music

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• church
• chamber
• pipe
• organ
• hymn
• music

[organrestoration]

The pedalboard was missing when we acquired the organ, however we have now found a purchaser who has commissioned a new replica pedalboard (13 notes - C-c) among other repairs.

The music played by our colleague was 18th Century English, but I can't remember the composer.

[organrestoration]

It's a very small organ - no room for a 16' rank. There was originally a 13 note pedalboard permanently coupled to the manual. In a more resonant building it will sound much more mellow!

[organrestoration]

The Gold pipes you can see are non-functioning wood dummies, but the actual sounding pipes inside the organ are mostly metal (lead/tin alloy). There is also a set of wooden flute pipes in the organ heard on the recording.

[hartleymartin]

@organrestoration Does it still have the pedalboard? And what is the piece of music that you are playing?

[hartleymartin]

@resultant64 - English builders were fairly late in adopting the pedal division. Many small organs like this would have had 13, 20 or 25 hitch-down pedals only with no stops dedicated to the pedals - effectively no pedal division. Many would have also had all pipes under expression with a hitch-down pedal to play either loud or soft. It is a unique school of organ design. Only the Spanish organs were similar, but they used divided manuals and made much greater use of reeds.

[greenspacesforever]

Reminds me of a small Erben in Convent, LA that I play sometimes. It is amazing what can be done with limited resources properly voiced.

[ThatMinidotCom]

@resultant64 This is a small chamber organ, and typical of its age. No 16'.

[resultant64]

bright and shrill.. but a 16' is required...

[issueagent]

@777MMT Wood and metal for most of them

[issueagent]

Lovely!