For the fruits of his creation - Chris Lawton at the Welsh Congregational Chapel, Southwark, London

Me playing the organ at the Welsh Congregational Chapel, London.

The organ here was built by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and is typical of the kind of instruments built by this firm in the 1950s for the smaller church or chapel. It contains 4 ranks of pipes all fully enclosed as follows: Open Diapason, Hohl Flute, Salicional and Trumpet. The specification reads:

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

GREAT
Bourdon 16'
Open Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Open Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Swell to Great

SWELL
Contra Salicional 16'
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Open Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Piccolo 2'
Cymbale III
Trombone 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant

ACCESSORIES
3 thumb pistons to Great
3 thumb pistons to Swell
1 canceller thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
1 ventil switch - Trumpet
1 ventil switch - Hohl Flute and Salicional
Voltmeter
Double touch canceller to each department with switch

Being a Welsh church I thought the hymn "For the fruits of his creation" to the tune "All through the night" (or "Ar Hyd a Nos" in Welsh) would be appropriate.

Many thanks to Mr and Mrs Jones 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/