Church Organ - St. Bridget's Church - Bride, Isle of Man - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

This Church Organ can be found in St. Bridget's Church in the village of Bride.

This Church Organ was made by H. W. Hewitt and is a 1-manual instrument. The pipework for this Church organ is Gt: 8,8,8,4,2. Ped:16.

The wide spacing of this church organs display pipes hint at an interesting history, namely that the pipe stays were designed for a much larger set of pipes and possibly was intended for another instrument altogether.

The case is of pitch-pine and is very similar to that of Hewitt’s instrument at Croit-e-Caey Methodist Church a Hamlet in the Parish of Rushen.

The instrument when originally installed has no pedal stop and the all manual pipework was in a swell box which made it difficult to tune with any accuracy.

From the Culture Vannin website here is a description of the later improvements made to the Instrument:
‘Thanks to the generosity of a former resident of the village (a Mr. Kewin) the instrument was cleaned, treated for woodworm and provided with a new blower, wind system, pedalboard, 16’ pedal stop (on a new tubular pneumatic action) and a new Fifteenth 2’ on the manuals, with replaced the original 4’ Flute. This set of Flute pipes was transposed to 8’ pitch and displaced the original Hewitt Clarabella (which had a coarser tone.) The swell-box was replaced by a sound reflector (which also protects the organ’s interior from plaster falls from the ceiling) and the pipework was repaired and reregulated. (The work was carried out by Peter Jones.)
Above the pedalboard are 3 short pedals. The brass one is the Greatto-Pedals coupler and the other 2 wooden ones are interesting examples of ‘single acting’ composition pedals (one puts a fixed selection of stops out, whilst the other draws them in again, without disturbing any other stops which may be drawn at the same time.)’

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