I want to walk with Jesus Christ - Chris Lawton at All Saint's Church, Intake, Doncaster
- 12 years ago
Me playing the organ at All Saint's Church in the Intake area of Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
The organ was built for the then new church in 1958 by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd. Sometime during the 1970s, the organ was overhauled by C. Wren. The whole organ being a Compton is fully enclosed (with the exception of some basses) and works on the extension principal using 4 ranks of pipes. It is installed on the rear gallery of the church along with the detached stopkey console. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Acoustic Bass 32'
Bourdon 16'
Bass Flute 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Harmonic Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Harmonic Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Super Octave 2'
Swell to Great
SWELL
Contra Salicional 16'
Harmonic Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Harmonic Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Nazard 2.2/3'
Piccolo 2'
Cymbale III
Double Trumpet 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant (effects whole organ)
ACCESSORIES
4 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
4 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
4 ventil switches
Compton of course were famous for their cinema organs in the 1930s so perhaps it is no surprise that this organ boasts a fantastic cinema organ sound when the tremulant is used! I was so impressed with this that I decided to abandon what I had originally prepared and play the jazzy hymn tune 'I want to walk with Jesus Christ'.
Many thanks to Jean Ware for allowing me access to this fantastic Compton organ.
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 for the then new church in 1958 by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd. Sometime during the 1970s, the organ was overhauled by C. Wren. The whole organ being a Compton is fully enclosed (with the exception of some basses) and works on the extension principal using 4 ranks of pipes. It is installed on the rear gallery of the church along with the detached stopkey console. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Acoustic Bass 32'
Bourdon 16'
Bass Flute 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Harmonic Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Harmonic Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Super Octave 2'
Swell to Great
SWELL
Contra Salicional 16'
Harmonic Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Harmonic Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Nazard 2.2/3'
Piccolo 2'
Cymbale III
Double Trumpet 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant (effects whole organ)
ACCESSORIES
4 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
4 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
4 ventil switches
Compton of course were famous for their cinema organs in the 1930s so perhaps it is no surprise that this organ boasts a fantastic cinema organ sound when the tremulant is used! I was so impressed with this that I decided to abandon what I had originally prepared and play the jazzy hymn tune 'I want to walk with Jesus Christ'.
Many thanks to Jean Ware for allowing me access to this fantastic Compton organ.
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/