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Good for you for being a traditionalist. Electric crap, praise bands...rubbish. Vapid tosh. Not that every Victorian hymn was a masterpiece, but the sound of a pipe organ moves the soul like nothing else.

The church web site states: "The first division of our organ (the great) was installed in 1872 by Forster and Andrews at a cost of £100. An upgrade followed in 1890 with the addition of the swell and pedal organs at a cost of over £300." So much earlier than the 1950s. The organ building firm of F.D. (not F.C.) Ward of Middlesbrough was founded later by Francis Duncan Ward in 1911; he was active in a small way until the late 1930s.

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I do not like organ tremolo.

Thank you, again, for showing us a fascinating organ! I find tremulants to be extremely useful, in most schools of organ composition, baroque as well as romantic or 20th century.

The organ wasn’t made for playing baroque music, but to lead a worship service. It sounds great as it is.

Two 8ft Open Diapasons on the Great seems a bit extravagant on a small organ. I would have preferred to have a Mixture III. Having said that, it's a fine organ and obviously well loved. Nice presentation.

Sounds really good, beautiful organ, great rebuild. But.... why two Open Diapasons 8" ? Maybe a Mixture on the Great would have done it!

I love the Dulciana stop. Sometimes it serves as another Diapason depending on how it's voiced 😊 Toe pistons are a Godsend when you're playing something like a piece like a toccata where all your fingers and thumbs are otherwise busy & you need a registration change but have no console assistant, especially on a larger organ with limited registration aids!

Beautiful sounding organ. And as always, excellently demonstrated by playing the registers one by

An interesting instrument. Overall it has a nice light sound. The principal chorus sounds a bit transparent, dare I say almost string like. I assume the tracker action was removed because it was worn out. To me the tremulant needs to be slowed down. This isn’t a theatre organ! I have to wonder at the thinking behind the plethora of toe studs and pistons and lighting options.

Perhaps "cost a fortune" is putting the church of from maintaining its asset. I would guess that a two-day tuning visit would transform the sound and, with outside help and a couple of "demonstration concerts" (perhaps 20-30 minutes, aimed at the congregation) they might think of using it for outreach through music. Someone else has commented on Conacher (and other Victorian organs) being built like a battleship, but that has contributed to its survival. I hope that the church can be encouraged to treat it with a little respect. To build new would cost possibly half a million and it should be insured for that. But as a second hand instrument it would have to be given away, so for sale purposes valueless. The fact that significant work was carried out only 40 years ago hints that the position is not impossible to salvage. I hope.

Thank you for a) the demonstration and b) the link to the NPOR listing. Something which we be useful if everyone did. If you don't mind, I'll pinch that idea! Your demonstration was very thorough, perhaps you could have shown the difference between the Great Open I and Principal and Open II and Principal, and then add the Piccolo. Incidentally, that Piccolo sounds like a compromise between a Fifteenth stop and a Piccolo. This was not uncommon at the time it was originally built: builders knew that a 2' flute stop wd not be much use in helping leading the singing (the main purpose of the organ then) so, even when a Piccolo was specified they wd make it as like a Fifteenth as they dared.

A very fine and well restored organ with a splendid tone which obviously does its job of accompanying the Hymn singing and Liturgy very well. I think the expense of providing so many playing aids. (Foot pistons etc) is excessive. However,In my opinion this money would have been better spent on two or three tonal changes which would have increased the versatility of the instrument. On the Great, the Piccolo be revoiced as a Fifteenth to fully complement the Diapason chorus and the introduction of a Twelfth (Probably in place of the Dulciana which sounds like a small third Open Diapason) On the Swell substitute the Bourdon by a Mixture. On the Pedal, the addition of a Reed (Trombone) At the moment the organ is mainly suitable for Romantic repertoire but somewhat limiting for the performance of baroque repertoire (J.S.Bach for instance)

Wow, so it was rebuilt with Electric Action? My late Grandparents also lived in Yarm during the latter part of their life so I visited them quite often, until we had to move them closer to us due to Grandad's dementia, which he would pass away a year later. I never got to go in this church as it was locked everytime I passed by, but I still remember Yarm well. And if I am not mistaken, dunno if he still does, one of Iron Maiden's guitarists live here.

Nice to see such a fine organ beautifully restored. For my personal taste I'd clip the tremulant's wings somewhat... half the speed, half the pressure :) And I'll never understand the thinking behind putting a Clarinet unenclosed on the Great instead of under expression on the Swell where it can be way more useful. But there are some very beautiful stops in there, that Swell Lieblich is gorgeous. As always, thank you for posting - you pick some very nice organs to show us.

Another very nice organ! Thanks for showing to us!

Presumably the rebuild is now an electropneumatic design? I notice you don't demonstrate the shutters of the swell to see how well it changes the sound ? Anyway, a great sound to be sure and this re-build must have cost one hell-of-a lot of dollars !! I hope they have a congregation to match the outlay. Thanks again for a great video and hey, don't let the ladies intimidate you !!LOL

There's a charity called Pipe Up for Pipe Organs what rescue and re-home unwanted organs, they may be interested (I'd put the URL, but TH-cam would block it!)

Splendid Organ for accompaniment of the hymn singing and liturgy. The Trumpet Rank could have been revolved if it had been considered too loud, saving the cost of installing the Horn in the Swell organ. The only other suggestion would be a Twelfth or Mixture somewhere.

Sounds perfect for hymn playing - adding the Horn to the full organ would make a great Full Organ for the last verse of some hymns. Keep up the good work!

Sorry, but I would get the trumpet pipes out of storage 🤫 I find the horn too harsh for accompaniment.

How lucky we are to have such a wonderful organ to facilitate worship on Sundays

Very nice, and surprising that the church is in an unassuming house, and where those your pictures when it was being restored, or worked on, and what was the first piece you played in the intro?

Great video. Thanks for showcasing the organ - you certainly put it through its paces! Looking forward to the next one. We must treasure all these wonderful instruments.

Good to see you back! Splendid little instrument although it always saddens me that such lovely manual pipework only has a slow, twelfth-y Bourdon for accompaniment. As they've unified the chests it would have been easy to duplicate the Dulciana onto the Pedal - it would have been very useful to give a bit of definition even to full organ. Still, A&S turned out some fine work and I think it was a good idea to put that rather nice Horn back on the Swell - it fits the chorus nicely. Thank you for posting, looking forward to the next!

A very nice organ!

Lovely video as always!!!! ❤

Thanks, another great video and yes, the organ sounds lovely. On a personal note, I take it you have ditched the glasses? Keep it up, we just love your visitations.

BEAUTIFUL, Yes- very typical of smaller organs back then- The absence of reeds and nothing higher than a 4' stop. Was nice if you had a Super Coupler on the Swell on those type of organs just to achieve a 2' stop.... Enjoyed this! Regards, Nigel from Canada

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Your channel answers my prayers. The sheer gorgeousness of these instruments absolutely is awe inspiring. Keep being the Rockstar you are in Jesus name bruhv!

This man knows his stuff 😊

A nice typical early twentieth century Harrison and Harrison instrument. Yes tubular pneumatic actions can be very slow but Harrison's typically had their actions on heavier wind pressures to combat this. ( you talking about the Royal Albert Hall organ, when Harrison's rebuilt the organ in the late 60's or early seventies, I can't now remember when it was, they put most of the action wind pressures up to I think it was 15" and having been involved with a London borough Bi annual schools music festival, and turning the pages for the organist who was a friend the actions were shall we say somewhat noisy due to the pressures they were working on. And at that time 1986, the organs winding system was leaking like a sieve) I make these comment not only as an organ enthusiast, but as a former organ builder. I think when Mander's rebuilt the Albert Hall they may well have made those action pressures a bit lower but I'm not sure. This Whitby organ is beautiful, and my iPad does not do it justice at all. I will watch it through my TV later to hear it properly. I've only just found your channel and have subscribed immediately

the organ is too loud

Sounds great!! Better than a lot of the pipe organs you've played.

I had a load of fun fixing a couple of the american made pedal pump organs years ago the first one i got off the dump in weymouth it was a joy to find out how they worked and make them work again 😊😊😊

The hymn tune is called “ lord of all the years “

Seems like a nice small organ. The lack of a reed no doubt helps with tuning, but I'd favour the extra "colour" from a Swell Oboe before a 2 ft.

A small chamber organ. Ideal for choir accompaniment or small congregation.

Note that there are two different types of stop face -- those that are all black and those that are red and black. The all-black ones seem to be the originals, perhaps confirming your suspicion that the 4 ft. Principal was originally on the Great. The red-and-black ones seem to be the stops added by Mack. These include the Pedal Bourdon, suggesting that the pedal pipes, or perhaps the entire Pedal Organ may have been added. I can't find out very much about the organ builder Mack, but it is my impression that he was much earlier than you suggest -- perhaps around 1890.

A well kept organ. I guess one of the benefits of this organ is that it probably stays in tune better than most.

The front case of the organ seems to have pipes with "ears and beards" so are these actually speaking pipes? You are right, the organ does have a nice tone and sound to it and the church itself looks like a little gem. I take that the deep hum throughout your video is the motor for the pump? Anyway, thanks again for a nice video.

Another little gem - must look it up next time I'm in Sadberge.

A reed would have been nice. Phaps an oboe on the swell.

They are nice these Forster and Andrews, often with their distinctive painted pipes. I saw a little organ yesterday at Dacre near Pateley Bridge, built by a North East Builder, H.S Vincent and Co, if any of them organs ring a bell, also going to see if you get to Coxwold soon?

A delightful instrument, I play a 1890 F & A at Porthleven methodist church Cornwall, very similar spec, it is so good and reliable, I can't speak highly enough of it.

What a lovely instrument! But that has to be one of the softest Solo Divisions I’ve ever heard!! Great video as always! And that Tuba… 😍😍😍😍 There’s absolutely nothing like a good, British Tuba stop! That one just needs more umph behind it!

Fab! It sounded even better with the piano being so honky tonk

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