Me at the organ of St Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Digbeth just outside Birmingham city centre, West Midlands.
The organ was built in the 1950s by the famous John Compton Organ Company Ltd and is situated on the rear gallery of the church. Like most Compton organs, the organ is built using the "extension" principal which involves 4 ranks of pipes all totally enclosed and played from a detached stopkey console. The organ also features the Compton patent "acoustic cube" which provides the bottom 8 notes of the "Sub Bass" stop on the pedal. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Sub Bass 32'
Bourdon 16'
Flute 8'
Trombone 16'
Trumpet 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Swell to Great
SWELL
Contra Salicional 16'
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Piccolo 2'
Fifteenth 2'
Cymbale III
Trombone 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant (affects whole organ)
ACCESSORIES
4 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
4 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
4 toe pistons to Pedal
1 reverser thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 reverser thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
Double touch canceller to each division
4 ventil switches
Voltmeter
For this first video im playing the hymn 'Life up your hearts' from the old Methodist hymn book to the appropriately named tune 'Birmingham'.
Many thanks to Father Patrick Browne for allowing me access to the wonderful 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/
