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See the Compton
This is your chance to see the ex-Regal/ABC Compton. This page make take longer to download due to the number of pictures contained on it Click on a picture to get a closer view!
All of the pictures contained are as the organ is installed at ‘Pipes In The Peaks’.
Console:
The Compton Console. |
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Close up of console, showing the recent addition of the drawer to augment the number of stops available to the organist. |
Pipe Chamber:
Automated Drum Kit:
Compton Solo Cello:
Piano Accordion:
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A real Piano Accordion, which is played directly from the organ |
Toy Counter:
Vibraphone:
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A Compton Vibraphone. Control 37 notes. Can either be used as a Vibraphone by the means of butterflies spinning in the resonators, or as a Chrysoglott. |
Xylophone and Glockenspiel:
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Top – Xylophone 37 notes Bottom – Glockenspiel 37 notes |
Piano:
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Upright Broadwood Piano attachment, which can be played directly from the organ, with keys that appear to move “as if by magic” |
Cathedral Chimes:
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20 note Compton Cathedral Chimes. |
Marimba:
Secondary Toy Counter:
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Located on this unit as designed and manufactured by Pipes in the Peaks are:-
Jazz Cymbal F and P, Brush Cymbal, Splash Cymbal, Cop Whistle, and Sante Fe Whistle. |
Tuned Birds, Duck and Owl:
New Toy Counter
Melotone
Tuned Sleigh Bells
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A very early set of Wurlitzer Tuned Sleigh Bells which date back to 1915. |
Tuned Sleigh Bells
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Temple Blocks, Cowbell and Wind Chimes |
Tuned Sleigh Bells
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14 note external Tibia Bass |