Me playing the organ at Stonelaw Church in the Rutherglen district of Glasgow.
The organ was first built in 1930 by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd for a cost of £2,900 where it replaced an earlier instrument. The organ is built on the extension principal and located in 2 fully enclosed chambers behind dummy pipe facades on each side at the front of the church. Of particular interest is that the console is of exactly the same design which Compton's used for their cinema organs around this time. In 1993 the organ was given a refurbishment at a cost of over £50,000. The specification reads:
PEDAL
Sub Bass 32'
Open Wood 16'
Diaphone 16'
Bourdon 16'
Gemshorn 16'
Octave 8'
Flute 8'
Flute 4'
Mixture VIII
Tromba 16'
Trombone 16'
Choir to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
CHOIR
Stopped Diapason 8'
Orchestral Flute 8'
Viole 8'
Viole Celeste 8'
Dulciana 8'
Lieblich Flute 4'
Nazard 2.2/3'
Piccolo 2'
Clarinet 8'
Sub Octave
Octave
Great to Choir
Swell to Choir
Tremulant
BOMBARDE (on Choir)
Diaphone 16'
First Diapason 8'
Second Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Gemshorn 8'
Rohr Flute 4'
Gemshorn 4'
Plein Jeu VI
Contra Tromba 16'
Trombone 16'
Tromba 8'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
GREAT
Double Open Diapason 16'
Bourdon 16'
Gemshorn 16'
First Diapason 8'
Second Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Rohr Gedeckt 8'
Gemshorn 8'
Octave 4'
Gemshorn 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Cornet V
Tromba 8'
Octave Tromba 4'
Swell to Great
SWELL
Geigen 8'
Gedeckt 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave Geigen 4'
Fifteenth 2'
Cymbale III
Trombone 16'
Trumpet 8'
Hautboy 8'
Clarion 4'
Sub Octave
Octave
Tremulant
ACCESSORIES
6 double touch thumb pistons to Choir and Pedal
6 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
6 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
6 toe pistons to Pedal and Great
6 toe pistons to Pedal and Swell
6 general thumb pistons
5 reversible thumb pistons
1 general cancel thumb piston
1 balanced expression pedal with indicator - chamber 1
1 balanced expression pedal with indicator - chamber 2
1 balanced expression pedal with indicator - crescendo
Double touch canceller to each department
Ventil switches
11 piston memories
For this first video im playing the hymn 'One who is all unfit to count' to the Scottish tune 'Ayrshire' which makes use of the main tone colours on the organ for accompanying hymn singing.
Many thanks to the officials at Stonelaw Church for allowing me access to this 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/
