BACK WITH A BANGER! (...hardly ever played)

Visiting the organ at Darlington (Grange) Baptist Church, UK
2 manual "Tracker Action" pipe organ built by Forster & Andrews (Hull) in 1897
Full history & Specification: npor.org.uk/survey/N15184
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[@coraelizabethbrna439]

8:08 oh…my…the Vox Celeste and the Gamba are heavenly together!

[@OrganicVisitations]

Imagine after a tuning! Hmmmmm

[@ringerpaul3118]

@@OrganicVisitations Yes: awesome to play 'Let all mortal flesh'!

[@heidicooper3870]

A lovely organ with some beautiful delicate stops that are to die for! I hope, now that people have seen the organ on your video it'll get a little bit of love and a service.

[@OrganicVisitations]

I was very pleasantly impressed with this organ! I’ll certainly be back to have another play ‘off camera’ 👍🎹😊

[@louisglen1653]

Another very nice organ!

[@OrganicVisitations]

Indeed it is! Thanks for watching 👍🎹

[@ringerpaul3118]

Great video; you made the organ 'shine'. Very impressive!!

[@OrganicVisitations]

Thank you 👍🎹

[@Knappa22]

What a delightful sound. Lovely dark textures. The lower compass notes in both Swell snd Great departments are so characterful they sound like pedal ranks.

[@OrganicVisitations]

Yes, the bottom end really stood out to me as well! 👍🎹

[@johnwilson-mr6pw]

For an organ that's over a hundred years old, the key board looks almost new ?! Anyway, another great video. Thanks.

[@OrganicVisitations]

I thought that! I think it must have had work carried out in the 2018 overhaul. Thank for watching 👍🎹

[@hayhay5239]

Great video

[@OrganicVisitations]

Thanks for watching 👍🎹

[@gerardhawkins17]

Good ol tracker action grew up with them does sound quite nice

[@OrganicVisitations]

You can’t beat tracker action in my humble opinion. It would sound amazing following a good tune 👍🎹

[@coraelizabethbrna439]

I’m so glad you’re back!!!! But I will say, the out of tune with headphones was simply painful! Haha! Great video as always, love!

[@OrganicVisitations]

Thank you as ever! Nothing a good tune wouldn’t fix 👍🎹

[@mg3261]

the organ does have a good strong sound with very good voicing and superb tonal quality athought it definitely needs a tune and a service to fix the cypher isses on the notes not working on the horn stop as well as the tremulant speed overall a very nice organ that deserves to be played more regularly if the church does get a organist interested in playing this fine organ

[@user-hk5hi4yb9l]

Very nice. Good to see you back. We were recently in the church at Clumber Park. The organ spec was detailed and framed on the wall so I took a pic which I will email to you. I did not get a pic of the organ (service due to start) of which half was way up in the loft and other was in the chancel.

[@OrganicVisitations]

I went to the Clumber Park one years ago but can’t remember the exact details. May well be worth a visit/video 👍🎹

[@buttersrow426]

Lovely organ! I wish they could swap the Hohl Flute to the Great and the Rohr Flute to the Swell

[@OrganicVisitations]

…and tune it 😊👍🎹

[@TB76Returns]

Lovely, a bit of a shame, but hope it will be used a bit more. What was that piece you were playing at the end and after the Great Demo?

[@OrganicVisitations]

I can’t remember what I was playing…I was sight reading some music I found on the organ 😊👍🎹

[@keithdale1617]

Come down to All Saints' Northallerton

[@OrganicVisitations]

Another one I’ve been trying to access for quite some time, although I have played it in the past. Drop me an email if you have contact information please? 🙏 👍🎹

[@johnmaguire9305]

May I offer some acoustic feedback: humbly suggest you thread a lapel mic under your shirt and clip to your collar! To hear you, I have to turn up the volume but knock it back when you play .

[@OrganicVisitations]

Thank you for your humble and helpful suggestion. I’ll bear that in mind 👍🎹

[@davidcraggs3770]

The church have no excuse for not keeping that organ tuned and maintained!!! Even if the organ isn’t used very much. It sounds a disgrace being so much out of tune. They may or may not be interested in engaging an organist but I can’t imagine they would have much to play with the use of modern evangelical worship songs etc. most of which are not suitable for organ accompaniment.

[@OrganicVisitations]

A sign of the times unfortunately, David. Agree wholeheartedly with your comments 👍🎹

[@davidcraggs3770]

These modernists have a lot to answer for