Southwell & White (organ builders)
Liverpool & London.
A rare three barrel, thirty tune chamber organ, with additional percussion effects on triangle, bells and drums. Original stand & ornamental false front. In ornamental ‘Gothick’ mahogany case
Each interchangeable barrel playing 10 tunes, with approx. 90 minutes of Georgian music. Six stops, four ranks of pipes, including a rare Flute 4 with pierced stoppers. It is the only example known by the maker, in mint original playing condition, complete with original tune sheets & transcription to barrel box door, a sound archive of popular & Church music of the day. The stops, when played with the sheet music annotating their use, allows one of the most accurate transcriptions of the composer’s intent, an extraordinary Georgian sound archive.
This example mentioned in Langwill and Boston
– Church and Chamber Barrel Organs: Their Origin, Makers, Music and Location (2nd Edition p. 63 pub 1970), in the collection of Jean Dyer – Gough (1908 – 1998), Nantclyd-y-Dre, Ruthin, Wales in 1934. Sold to Australia in 1984, with restoration / conservation notes .
[A thirty tune, Gothic front chamber organ was advertised for sale in 1815, in Sydney, at Mr Marr’s, merchant. Ref. G.D Rushworth Historic Organs of NSW.]
179cm H x 66cm L x 43.5cm W
Price inc GST $12,500
