ORGAN OF THE MONTH 81: March 2009
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Bartholomew, Edgbaston |
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Edgbaston Old Church houses a HN&B instrument that incorporates some of the pipework and chests from a Hill organ originally installed in the church in 1890. The opening recital of the 1956 organ was given by Sir William Harris. It is currently the subject of a £200,000 appeal for funds to enable restoration to start in 2010. For details about the appeal, click here.
There are at least two unusual features: not only a Choir to Great and a Great to Choir coupler but also a perspex "ear protector" for the organist, mounted above the console (see middle photograph)!