Me playing the organ at All Hallows Church in Greenford, London.

The organ here has an interesting history. It was originally built in the mid 1920s by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd for the Hippodrome in Woolwich, London. The Compton archives describe it as being a 2 manual 5 rank 'Kinestra' model. Following the closure of the Hippodrome, the organ was removed by Kingsgate Davidson and much of the pipework used here although there is now very little evidence of it ever being part of a cinema organ. The pipework is fully enclosed in a sunken apse behind the high altar with the swell shutters being located on the top. The specification reads:

PEDAL
Bourdon 16'
Flute 8'
Flute 4'
Trumpet 16'
Trumpet 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

GREAT
Contra Viola 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Viola 8'
Principal 4'
Hohl Flute 4'
Fifteenth 2'
Trumpet 8'
Swell to Great
Swell Octave to Great

SWELL
Viola 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
String Celestes 8'
Viola 4'
String Celestes 4'
Piccolo 2'
Double Trumpet 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant

ACCESSORIES
4 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
4 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
6 ventil switches

For this first video im playing the worship song 'God forgave my sin' which shows off the beautiful String stops on this organ.

Many thanks to Reverend Pamela Heazell for allowing me access to this fine instrument.

NOTE: this is purely my interest in order to make sure that these fine organs are archived forever and I do not make any monetary profit by this video being on dailymotion.

For more information on the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and to see me play other Compton organs, please click on the following link for my site dedicated to the John Compton Organ Company Ltd:

http://comptonorgans.yolasite.com/