Скачать или смотреть Samuel Felsted (1743-1802): Organ Voluntary No. 4 in G Minor (Cornet)

Silbermann organ of the Église protestante, Wasselonne -- 1. Adagio (Diapasons) 2. Allegro (Cornet -- Flute) @2:25 | More on Felsted and the organ he played in Jamaica in the description of my video of his Voluntary No. 6 and the video itself:    • Samuel Felsted (1743-1802): Organ Voluntar...   As in that other video I have used up the 5,000 character limit that Youtube imposes on video descriptions here is a postscript to answer the question of what happened to the 1783 Samuel Green organ in Kingston parish church? As mentioned in the other video, an article in the Kingston "Daily Gleaner" of November 1879 states that it had been dismantled. Apparently at the time it had not been decided what was to become of it, though the prognosis did not look good. Several other sources state that it was replaced by a Henry Willis organ in 1878. Now either that date is wrong, or I have the wrong date for the article. But it seems that a new organ by Willis eventually did take the place of the 1783 one. It did not last long: after the earthquake of 1907 it was, apparently, considered beyond repair, as was the church itself (on photographs the damage to the church does not look all THAT bad, and one rather regrets its passing: the present church, rebuilt on the foundations of the old, isn't exactly an architectural triumph -- nor was its predecessor, but it had more charm). In 1909 a new two-manual organ was ordered from the Willis company. This still exists. The passage of hurricane "Charlie" in 1951 caused damage that triggered a rebuild of the organ by the firm of J.W. Walker & Sons (as noted in the other video the same company had already been involved, around the middle of the previous century, in alterations to the Green organ). They converted the original tracker action to electro-pneumatic. This organ, which currently has 1032 pipes, is situated in an organ chamber next to the chancel. Walker rotated the organ by 45 degrees (apparently along with the organ chamber itself), in order to have the instrument speak into the nave rather than across the chancel. (I have not been there but I imagine it would have been better to do away with the organ chamber -- that horrid legacy of the Victorians -- altogether and give the organ a free-standing case, as its predecessor must have had.) In 1973 the organ aquired a new detached console situated in front of the choir stalls.

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