3-034-817 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New organ for St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, 1871. 'The new organ...was tested...by Mr. W. T. Best, playing at two public performances...The result was most satisfactory to the congregation; to the Rev. F. Morse, the Vicar; to Mr. Noble, organist of the church; and to Messrs. Bishop and Starr, the builders of the organ. This fine instrument, which cost £12,000 without the case, has 2422 pipes, and stands 40 ft. in height, its extreme width being 25 ft. and its depth 8 ft. The front pipes are of spotted metal, the interior pipes composed of three parts lead to one part tin. The compass of the great organ, with fifty-six notes and twelve stops, of the swell organ, including thirteen stops, and of the choir organ, which includes ten stops, is from CC to G; the pedal organ CCC to F, with thirty notes and four stops, besides the accessory stops and copulas. There are three pairs of bellows, worked by hydraulic engines. The pneumatic lever is applied to the great and swell organ manuals, and the new simplified pneumatic action to the choir organ. The case, which cost £560, has been constructed by Messrs. Farmer and Brindley, from the designs of Mr. Gilbert Scott, R.A., which is an adaptation of that of the famous organ in Strasburg Cathedral'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.