Me playing the organ at St Catherine of Siena in the Woodthorpe area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

The organ was built and installed at the church in the early 1960s by the John Compton Organ Company Ltd. Compton enthusiasts will see that the console design mirrors that of the model 357 electrone instruments which Compton were producing at this time differing greatly from those built just a couple of years previous. The organ is essentially the Compton 3 rank 'Miniatura' model. The pipework is installed at the rear of the church on a plinth over the entrance with the console also at the rear of the church. The specification reads:

PEDAL
Sub Bass 16'
Flute 8'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

GREAT
Tenordon 16'
Diapason 8'
Gemshorn 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Octave 4'
Gemshorn 4'
Octave Quint 2.2/3'
Super Octave 2'

SWELL
Contra Flute 16'
Diapason 8'
Gemshorn 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Gemshorn 4'
Flute 4'
Nazard 2.2/3'
Flautino 2'
Tremulant (affects whole organ)

ACCESSORIES
3 double touch thumb pistons to Great and Pedal
3 double touch thumb pistons to Swell and Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Great to Pedal
1 canceller thumb piston - Swell to Pedal
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo
Double touch canceller to each department
Ventil switches

The church boasts fantastic acoustics as will be heard in the hymn 'As I kneel before you' which starts off with the Gemshorn rank being heard in the first verse before the chorus which makes use of full organ.

Many thanks to Father Harold Loxley for allowing me access to this wonderful Compton organ.

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/