The organ is a Henry Willis of late 19th
Century vintage and is in good nick. It
is completely tracker action and quite light to play. The
organ was originally somewhere else but unfortunately John
Talbot has no details.
This small instrument has a
Cornopean, Larigot, Geigen principal and Gemshorn on the Swell,
a Fifteenth, Principal, Clarabel Flute and Open diapason on the
Great, and just a Bourdon on the Pedals. (9 stops in all).
There are the usual Sw-Gt, Sw-Ped and Great-Ped couplers, two
lever combination pedals which operate only on the Great Organ
(one brings out the Flute, and the other couples full Great
Organ. To the side is a balanced Swell pedal.
There is a makers placard (Henry
Willis & Sons) and another saying "Cleaning and
Renovation by Percy Daniel & Co Ltd 1984 In Memory of Mary
Miriam Vowles who died 1st February 1982".
Roger Taylor now services this
organ.
Further investigation of this organ on the
NPOR website shows that it may well be of 1884 vintage and
was originally in Barnwell. It fits the bill, although the
stops are slightly different. They mostly tally except that
the original had a Dulciana. The website indicates that St
Peters instrument came from Barnwood Asylum but this is
definitely wrong as the stop spec is entirely different and
it is a larger instrument (and it is a Vowles).
