The 1864, Forster & Andrews organ.

This is just a short clip of me doing a
demo on the 1864, F&A chapel organ at St Erth, Cornwall, Poor thing is in a bit of a sorry state,it has,nt been tuned in nearly 8yrs ! not sure if they
even use it anymore,very poorly attended now, could be closing in the forseeable future,beautiful case to it
in its day it must of been something.

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• organ.

[cornwall59]

Yes,i quite agree with you,if i had room i would buy it off the chapel myself & store it

somewere safe,i have had a look inside it,its

very dirty as you can imagine,the action is abit worn out,& theres not alot wrong with the

pipe work,the cornopean would have to be rescaled & modifyed,bourdon 16fts are badly affected with woodworm of course,its scandelous that things like this can be allowed to happen.

[hautyboy]

Forster & Andrews of Hull were very good organ builders, I think at one point in their history they had a tie up with Shultz in Germany. Their largest example is not unsurprisingly, located in Hull City Hall, with 4 manuals, just over 7000 pipes and over 100 stops, the organ is in fabulous condition. Close on its heels the one in Holy Trinity Church Hull, this is also 4 manuals, over 100 stops and about 5000 pipes.

[ConacherG0OJF]

There's what I reckon to be a similar f&A organ to this 50 miles from me. Am inspecting it with a view to purchase this sunday, Will take camcorder.

Richard

[and3583]

I bought some windchests, ranks, keyboards, pedals etc. and treated them all as soon as they arrived. Still nearly lost my house to woodworm & rot though.

Ha ha at least I've got a pipe organ though!!!

[chippieminton21]

I hope they find a good home for it if the chapel closes.

[PipeOrganHymnsG0OJF]

sorry about pressing the wrong button there!

All the organs we buy seem to have woodworm, but we make sure it's dealt with. The D06878 Conacher I keep laying in the workshop had to have building frame section replaced, 5 pedals totally replaced & some new timber let into a wormed portion of the swell box. This remedial work was done 7 years ago, whilst the organ was in storage here. Now we've assembled & restored it there is still no sign of worm. Richard

[PipeOrganHymnsG0OJF]

All the organs we buy have woodworm

[RobCharles1981]

Something should be done to get that organ in good shape it has a nice tone on it.