11.30 am – 1.30 pm Visit to the four manual Nicholson/Rushworth and Dreaper organ at Malvern Priory..
Lunch at Malvern Theatre.
3 pm Visit to the three manual Nicholson Organ in All Saint’s. Church, The Wyche, Malvern. The church was designed by Troyte, a friend of Edward Elgar, and the organ was the one mentioned and researched by Jim Berrow in his GOA talk last year.
Position North side of chancel Type Pipe Rack
English oak case added after the opening of the organ; Painted gold.
Prospect pipes arranged in three inverted Vs 5-13-5, the 5s from narrow-mouthed
basses of the Viol d’Amour and the 13 from leathered basses of the Open
Diapason; at the outside of the complete row and punctuating the three bays
are four Great Open pipes of larger scale which substitute for the four wooden
posts to be expected in those positions;
Department and Stop list
| Pedal | Key action TP Stop action TP Compass-low C Compass-high f1 Keys 30 | |||
| 1 | Open Diapason | 16 | ||
| 2 | Bourdon | 16 | ||
| 3 | Spare | |||
| Choir | Key action TP Stop action TP Compass-low C Compass-high a3 Keys 58 | |||
| 4 | Viol d’Amour | 8 | ||
| 5 | Prepared for stop | |||
| 6 | Spare | |||
| Great | Key action TP Stop action TP Compass-low C Compass-high a3 Keys 58 | |||
| 7 | Open Diapason | 8 | ||
| 8 | Clarabella | 8 | ||
| 9 | Principal | 4 | ||
| 10 | Prepared for stop | |||
| Swell | Key action TP Stop action TP Compass-low C Compass-high a3 Keys 58 Enclosed | |||
| 11 | Open Diapason | 8 | ||
| 12 | Lieblich Gedeckt | 8 | ||
| 13 | Echo Gamba | 8 | ||
| 14 | Voix Celeste | 8 | ||
| 15 | Cornopean | 8 | ||
| 16 | Prepared for stop | |||
Console
Console type Attached Stop type Stopkeys Pedalboard radiating concave
Whinfield console; stopkeys in a line below music desk, slide vertically; above
these is a row of black drawknobs, aligned with the stopkeys below; when
drawn, right hand composition pedal brings stopkey on; left hand composition
pedal takes off black drawknob; finger pistons set vertically at the rear of
the keyboards control stops in ivory and couplers in black; left hand set in
e/f space take couplers off and the right hand set in the e2/f2 space put them
on; speaking stop pistons in the b/c1, e/f and b/c spaces, left hand piston
selects suitable pedal stops and appropriate pedal coupler and taking off any
other pedal coupler; right hand piston selects manual stops;
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell to Choir
Swell octave to Great
Swell suboctave to Great
Swell octave
Swell suboctave
Choir to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Great octave
Choir suboctave to Great
Choir octave to Great
spare
Details
Bellows 4″
Accessories
Balanced Swell pedal;
Whinfield finger pistons, situated at back of keys
of manual which they control;
Whinfield patent “special combination action”;
Further information
See also article by James Berrow, BIOS Journal 18, 1994, pp143-149 which also
includes comprehensive details of pipes – materials, scales, nicking, mouths,
ears etc.;
Church designed by Arthur Troyte Griffith, close friend of Sir Edward Elgar
who features in his Enigma Variations;