City Of God How Broad How Far (Tune - Richmond) 5-verses

Richard Shireby plays the 1877 Conacher tracker pipe organ in the workshop of Ireland-Shireby church organ builders (Lincolnshire, UK) as the organ has been completed. The organ will shortly be offered for sale; we've another nine to restore!

This item was recorded off the workshop's internal CCTV system as an alternative of using a camcorder. Sound is recorded through a pair of Shure SM57 microphones. All the cameras are Sony, and fed through a Panasonic digital video mixer.

This video replaces one that I did three years ago when this organ was still incomplete.

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Read about this hymn in C.S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce." Glad I checked it out! City of God, how broad and far outspread thy walls sublime! The true thy chartered freemen are of every age and clime. One holy Church, one army strong; one steadfast, high intent; one working band, one harvest song, one King omnipotent. How purely hath thy speech come down from man's primeval youth! How grandly hath thine empire grown of freedom, love and truth!