Barrel Organ - King Charles the Martyr - Shelland, Suffolk
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N 52° 12.231 E 000° 55.828
31U E 358579 N 5785729
A Bryceson Barrel Organ at the west end of King Charles the Martyr church, Shelland.
Waymark Code: WMRB2F
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/02/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Team GPSaxophone
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Barrel Organ at the west end of King Charles the Martyr church. Sadly hidden a bit by wooden panels.

Builders

1810           H. Bryceson  London

Barrel organ; 3 barrels, 27 tunes;

1956           N.P. Mander

Cases

     
Position  W gallery  

Department and Stop list

Barrel Key action   Stop action   Compass-low   Compass-high   Keys 31
             1 Op Diapason    
             2 St Diapason    
             3 Principal    
             4 Twelfth    
             5 Fifteenth    
             6 Tierce    

Accessories

Barrel Organ

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The Bryceson Barrel Organ at the west end of the church has three cylinders. 

It plays 36 different tunes, and was until the 1970s the only surviving instrument to have been regularly played every week in England.

Built by Bryceson Bros., ca. 1810. There are three barrels, each of twelve tunes. Overhauled 1956 by Noel Mander. There are 6 stops of 31 notes. Unusually it has a tierce. It is believed that the parishioners have ordered a fourth barrel, with more up-to-date dunes and harmonies.

The tunes are as follows (where known):-

  CYLINDER 1

 CYLINDER 2

 CYLINDER 3

Listed name Recorded name Listed name Recorded name Listed name Recorded name
Hotham, double   Morning Hymn   Evening Hymn  
Doncaster   Kent   University  
Easter Hymn   Portugal   St David's  
Old 100th Psalm   Portuguese Hymn   St James's  
Haydn's Hymn (eight lines)   Burnham 148th.   St Anne's  
Islington   Rockingham   St Stephen's  
Helmsley   Hanover, proper 149th.   Warwick  
Sicilian Mariners   Manchester   Shirland  
Falcon Street   New York   Peckham  
Weston Favel   Wakefield   German Hymn  
New Sabbath   Bedford   Hymn (sic)  
"Creation", (double)   Lincoln   Glory be to Thee, O Lord.  

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