Me playing the organ at New Eltham Methodist Church, London - part of my 'summer in the city 2012' organ crawl of London celebrating youtube, my youtube channel and the John Compton Organ Company Ltd.

The organ here has a fascinating history. It is made up of pipework originally on the Compton cinema organ at the Odeon, Winchester which was opened there in 1934 and was a 3 manual instrument with 9 ranks of pipes . In 1961 the organ was installed here by Compton's who used the most appropriate pipework (Diapason, Flute, Salicional and Trumpet) and a new console - in essence a 'series 4' model. The pipework is fully enclosed in true Compton fashion in a chamber at the front of the church on the left and speaking into the communion area. The specification reads:

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

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

SWELL
Contra Salicional 16'
Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Nazard 2.2/3'
Piccolo 2'
Cymbale III
Trombone 16'
Trumpet 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant (affecting all divisions)

ACCESSORIES
4 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
4 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
4 toe pistons to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
Double touch canceller to each department
Ventil switches
Voltmeter

For this first video im playing the hymn "Christ, whose glory fills the skies' the tune "Heathlands" which makes use of the main tone colours used for accompanying congregational hymn singing.

Many thanks to the church officials for allowing me to play this fantastic Compton organ and of course a big thank you to my subscribers and followers - your support and encouragement means a lot.

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/