The Britton Organ - Bristol Beacon
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Bristol Beacon's magnificent Harrison and Harrison pipe organ is one of the finest examples of concert hall organs. It has delighted audiences and organists from around the world for over half a century.
Installed in 1956, this organ is the 4th of its kind at Bristol Beacon. It stands over 3 stories tall and has 5,372 pipes, ranging from tiny 'tin whistles' measuring an inch or so long to 32-foot tall that rumble in the bass when operated by the pedals.
In June 2018 Harrison & Harrison carefully removed every pipe, tube and whistle from behind the grille housing, catalogued each individual item and transported the entire instrument back to Durham.
After restoration the Britton Organ will be rehoused at Bristol Beacon.
For more information about the history of Bristol Beacon's Organ, and how you can support the restoration of this magnificent instrument, visit our website: bristolbeacon....
I played this organ when I was about 18. It really is a fantastic organ - a gem for Bristol.
Music is timeless. Colston Hall's is a place I would love to be. In Dallas Texas, the concert hall was built with this very same shoe box design. hmm.... I wonder from where those ideas came? I keep digging. Nonetheless, I wished I were there to feel and enjoy the full experience.
You leave me only after I have not heard upward to 200 human voices and the organ with that experience. And to that end, indeed I do wonder what is behind the curtains.
The music first and foremost, with and without choirs, after at least an hour after the final end, departing to see what was behind those curtains.
I truly thank you for what's there and what I've seen. I shall be watching...my curiosity is now a blaze.
Yes - fantastic organ, so a pity you can't hear the thing in this film. Just people talking about it!
+Nick Forton-Evans Hi Nick, the music in the background was recorded on our organ. :)
Please do upload more recordings of it.
Nick Forton-Evans 7s
I played this Organ a number of years ago with the Swansea Organ Association I think we met Chris Mansfield at the time here, would love to visit here to enjoy a play on the fine organ! :o)
Go to Colston Hall and play the Interstellar theme tune on that organ. Has to be done.
A very under recorded instrument, sadly.
It's a rather dry acoustic for an organ to sound any good.
@@smudger671 The acoustic in the reopened hall is different now. I hope when the organ returns it will be used for more than one recital a year and sometimes in orchestral concerts, which was the pattern immediately before the hall closed for the refit.
The previous organs were visually more interesting. Why couldn't they just reproduce what was there before?
my late father in law apprenticed and work for harrison he wood do things like
climb into the larger pipes to clean them, after that during ww2 he wood
clean the electronice of human debris from the cockpit instrumentation.
OK sldc♡ERIC DEREK, but I can fly grandly with you. OK sldc
The Harrison 4 manual built in 1952 for the large assembly Room at Harrow School would be a full rival to this instrument. It is still there, having been rebuilt about 19 years ago. Very versatile, but will also support the whole school in song.
3-minutes of talk with 30-seconds of music, repeat to fill the time... :-(
BBC?.....