Introducing... ST MARTIN’S CHAMBER ORGAN: Saxon Aldred 1985
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The Saxon Aldred Chamber Organ was built in 1985 with five stops, wooden keyboard and pedalboard, and electric blower. It is mounted on wheels, making it easily moveable. The organ is used to accompany the psalm and motet each Sunday and is equally suited to baroque continuo and organ concertos.
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Please have Richard McVeigh come record this for Hauptwerk! What a charming instrument and the acoustic of the church is gorgeous too!
Thanks for taking us on trips to the small organs and churches. Really enjoy the sparkling sound of this instrument.
Nice to hear an English Contemporary of Bach!!
Grazie ai tuoi video sto conoscendo strumenti e musica bellissima.
What a lovely instrument!
Love your vidios
Love it
What a lovely instrument.
An instrument with a delightful sound, playing music too rarely heard. Wonderful.
You make me smile !!!
Beautiful sound.
What a lovely sound, thanks for sharing Ben
Two wonderful instruments in the same church building! Toy are very fortunate...Thanks again for sharing !
Absolutely beautiful Ben 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Would you like to know more about this Saxon Aldred organ? I have a very interesting anecdotal tale about the 'chamber pot' and also a sad piece of history associated with it.
I cant say that I have seen a chamber organ with pedals. Small, but versitle. Well done once again!
Thank you!
What a lovely sound. Another lovely video Dan ❤
Sorry Ben 🥴
The church I play at, the organ is quite a big converted chamber organ. It has only got 8 stops and a pedal to manual coupler and still has its bellow pump handle! The manual used to be pushed back inside the key desk when it wasn't in use, the pipes are in the funny order (Dulciana 8' at the front, Fifteenth 2', Flute 4', Principal 4', Stopped Diapason 8' and then the Open Diapason 8' with the pedal Bourdon making up the back of the case) and it has a Melody Bass stop which would have been used instead of the pedals and would have played the Bourdon 16'. It's a great little organ to play (and has its quirks!) and does pack some punch like yours here! The churchwarden reckons it's come from a big stately home somewhere as it's that kind of size for a large hall or something!
Wait till you see my next video! Starting a village church tour soon. Found one very quirky instrument indeed...
It is wonderful to be able to inform us without patronising, such a talented bloke.
Luckily, you wore your small feet on this day lol I enjoy your country wide organ crawls and love your playing ability
Thanks for sharing .
Merry Christmas, master musician! 🎄🥂🙏🌠
Delightful!
Beautiful!
Hi Ben
I dont know if you read these comments. As a fellow Organist I've started watching your fabulous videos. I'm reading Nicholas Orme"Going to Church in Medieval England". St Martin's where you play is mentioned in Chapter Four if your interested.
Very nice instrument!
There is a nice Hill from 1870 in Liverpool at St. John Tuebrook. William Faulkes was organist there for a few years in the early 20th century. It's tubular pneumatic I believe.
Wonderful to hear this music played! But why aren’t the keys black and white? (I’m totally uneducated about organs…)
Was that a snippet of BWV541 I heard at first while you were demonstrating the stops?
Maurice Greene seems to be popping up everywhere at the moment - or perhaps I only keep noticing him because I've recently recorded part of one his other voluntaries. Who knows?
I was rather hoping that you would tell us a bit about Saxon Aldred (not exactly a household name) and the history of this chamber organ. Was it designed and built for St. Martin's or did St. Martin's acquire it at a later date?
"decilious" - Much more 'comfortable' than JSB... One doesn't hear huc Maurice Greene played nowadays.
P'raps I'm looking in the wrong places...