St. Andrew’s Copeman Hart Organ

The organ is a COPEMAN HART PETITE ORGUE with 27 speaking stops.

Copeman Hart organs are custom built in Northamptonshire and are widely acknowledged by distinguished organists as producing the most authentic sounding pipe-less organs in the world.

The organ was originally built as a house organ in 1998 and has been donated to St.Andrew’s by Claire Timms. The organ has been completely upgraded and re voiced. This ensures that the organ is married exactly to the acoustic of the building and is a painstaking task. For this we were indebted to Ernest Hart who, despite having only recently recovered from illness, spent many hours, over four days 9^th, 10^th, 11^th & 12^th November 2006, working to 9pm and 10pm at night on two of the days, in order that we should be able to have an organ for our Remembrance tide concert and the Service of Remembrance on Sunday 12^th November when we were joined by members of the Royal British Legion and Air Training Corps.

Guest organist Derick Mott from St. Andrew’s Stogursey played for the concert and also joined St. Andrew’s choir to sing tenor for the unaccompanied items. Nigel Timms (Claire’s brother) played for the first Sunday service. The congregation have said how they appreciate the support the new instrument gives to the singing. Tim Webb (who was Churchwarden at St. Andrew’s for many years) has said “Never was such a sound heard in this church!” We were also pleased that Mr Hart was able to join us for both these events.

At the time of writing we have two accomplished organists who regularly accompany services at St Andrew’s – Mark Grant and Richard Monks.

If you are an organist and would like to come and sample the organ please contact the Rector Revd. Judy Henning on 01984 640576 or email us on standrewoldcleeve@hotmail.com

We also have plans to make a fund raising CD and invite our organist friends to come and play an item for possible inclusion in this.

The organ specification is as follows:-

Two 61 note manuals, 30 note radial, concave pedal board.
Stop Selection	Illuminated tabs
Speaking Stops	27
Swell (Enclosed)	11 stops Geigen Diapson 8’ Rohr Flute 8’ Viola da Gamba 8’ Voix Celestes 8’ Principal 4’ Wald Flute 4’ Fifteenth 2’ Mixture IV Contra Fagotto 16’ Trumpet 8’ Hautbois 8’
Great	10 stops Principal 8’ Stopped Diapason 8’ Octave 4’ Harmonic Flute 4’ Nazard 2 2/3’ Fifteenth 2’ Tierce 1 3/5’ Fourniture IV Trumpet 8’ Clarinet 8’
Pedal	6 stops Principal 16’ Sub Bass 16’ Octave 8’ Bass Flute 8’ Choral Bass 4’ Fagotto 16’
Non speaking stops	Tremulant
Couplers	Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Mono Bass (Assists non pedal users)
Pistons	6 General 6 Departmental 3 long term memories
Transposer	Yes
Speaker channels	5
Midi Compatible	Yes
Computer modules	Two (produces better sound definition)