© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part I’, The Organ, vol.LII (1972-73) no.205, pp.6-14; ‘Part III’, no.207, pp.99-106; ‘Part VI’, vol.LIII (1973-74) no.210, pp.17-24; ‘Part VII’, no.211, pp.78-85; ‘Part VIII’, no.212, pp.119-26; ‘Part VIX’, vol.LIV (1975-76) no.213, pp.41-8 Bevington & Sons, Organs recently erected by Bevington and Sons (c.1841); List of Organs recently built and erected by them (London, 1847) Tony, Jill & Romana Bevington, Bevington & Sons: Victorian Organ Builders. The life and times of four generations of the Bevington family, 2nd edn. (Bristol, 2022) James Boeringer, Organa Britannica. Organs in Great Britain 1660-1860 (3 vols., London, 1983-9) Ralph Bootman, ‘More organs from the house of Bishop’, Musical Opinion (Summer 1999) pp.213-4 Roger Booty, ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 1: Chelmsford’s Black Chapel’, The Music Box, vol.7 no.7 (Autumn 1976) pp.276-7; ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 2: Fobbing Church Barrel Organ’, The Music Box, vol.7 no.8 (Christmas 1976) p.302 & vol.11 no.2 (Summer 1983) pp.80-3; ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 3: Barnston Parish Church’, The Music Box, vol.8 no.1 (Spring 1977) pp.28-30; ‘The Dumb Organist’, The Music Box, vol.8 no.7 (Autumn 1978) pp.296-8 Noel Boston, ‘Music of the Eighteenth Century Village Church’, Archaeological Journal, vol.99 (1942) pp. 53-66; ‘Barrel Full of Tunes’, Church Times (9 July 1954) p. 531; ‘The Barrel Organ’, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, New Series, vol.7 (1959) pp.99-124; ‘The Barrel Organ’, in: Music, Libraries and Instruments: Papers read at the Joint Congress, Cambridge, 1959, of the International Association of Music Libraries and The Galpin Society (London, 1961) pp.200-4; ‘Rise and Decline of the Church Band’, Country Life Annual (1961) pp.92-4 Noel Boston & Lyndesay G. Langwill, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs (Edinburgh, 1967) - see also Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston John Budgen, ‘Experiences with barrel organs’, BIOS Reporter (Apr. 1977) Hilary Davidson, Choirs, Bands and Organs (Oxford, 2003) Thomas Elliston, ‘The Barrel Organ in Church’, Musical Times (1 May 1920) pp.460-1 Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews: their Barrel, Chamber and Small Church organs (Lincoln, 1976); Bishop and Son Organ Builders: the Story of J.C. Bishop and his Successors (Lincoln, 1984) Flight & Sons, A Selection of PSALMS, HYMNS, &c. as Set on an ORGAN, The Gift of Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, to the Parish Church of Stratfield-Saye, Hants. The ORGAN, Built by FLIGHT & SONS, 16 King William Street, Strand, LONDON (London, 1835) Maurice Frost (ed.), Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient & Modern (1962) Freddy Hill, ‘The English Barrel Organ’, The Music Box, vol.1 no.4 (Christmas 1963) pp.9-19 John Hughes, The Singing Church in Essex: handbook to the exhibition of Essex church music held in Chelmsford Cathedral Chapter House during the second festival week, 3rd-12th June 1955 (1955) International Congress of Organists, Exhibition of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Barrel Organs […] at St Martin’s, Ludgate Hill, London, July 30th to August 2nd, 1957 Maggie Kilbey, ‘Meeting Report’, BIOS Reporter (Oct. 2013) pp.7-9; ‘Hexton, Hertfordshire: a tale of two organs’, Organists Review (June 2017) pp.40-41; ‘The early use of barrel organs in the English parish church’, JBIOS, 43 (2019) pp.58-71; Music-making in the Hertfordshire parish 1760 to 1870 (Hatfield, 2020); ‘Barrel organs in Essex parish churches’, JBIOS, 48 (forthcoming) E.S. Knights, ‘Barrel Organs’, The Essex Review (Oct. 1933) pp.165-8; ‘Fobbing Barrel Organ’, Musical Opinion (Dec. 1974) Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) K.H. MacDermott, Sussex Church Music in the Past (Chichester, 1922); The Old Church Gallery Minstrels (London, 1948) Rodney Matthews, A Reluctant Convert. The Life and Times of G.M. Holdich: Organ Builder (West Malling, 2013) Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, Barrel Organ (London, 1978) Robert Pacey, Lincolnshire Church Organs (Burgh le Marsh, 2002) A.V. Phillips, ‘Barrel Organs in Churches’, The Essex Review (Jul. 1918) pp.157-8 J.N. Phillips, ‘Three Rutland Organs’, Musical Opinion (Aug. 1928) pp.1087-8 Percy A. Scholes, 'Barrel organs in church', Radio Times (2 Mar. 1934) H.B. Sharp, ‘The church band and the dumb organist’, The Organ (Apr. 1957) Nicholas Temperley, The Music of the English Parish Church, Cambridge Studies in Church Music (2 vols., Cambridge, 1979), 1 Christopher Turner, ‘Pins, barrels and dumb organists’, Choir & Organ (Jan. 1997) pp.21-3; ‘Miserable Dumbledores: A Paper on Barrel Organs’, BIOS Reporter (Apr. 1997) pp.5-9; ‘Miserable Machines: the Role of the Barrel Organ within Georgian Psalmody’, in: C. Turner (ed.), Georgian Psalmody 2. The Interaction Between Urban and Rural Practice (Corby Glen, 1999) pp.65-72; ‘When organists were dumb and ‘grinders’ gave the lead’, Church Music Quarterly (Apr. 2000) pp.20-1; ‘Psalmody Singing and the Role of the Barrel Organ in the Anglican Church of the Nineteenth Century’, in: J. Dibble & B. Zon, Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies (Aldershot, 2002) pp.32-45 Christopher Wenlock, ‘Old Barrel-organs in Sussex Churches’, Sussex County Magazine (Jan. 1955) pp.8-11 Harry Woodhouse, Face the Music. Church and Chapel Bands in Cornwall (St Austell, 1997)
Online resources: The British Institute of Organ Studies, British Organ Archive (BOA) The British Institute of Organ Studies, The National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR) The British Library/Findmypast, The British Newspaper Archive (includes many, but not all, British newspapers) The Institute of Historical Research, British History Online (BHO) University of Illinois, The Hymn Tune Index https://hymntune.library.illinois.edu/ Organ builders/restorers: Cousans Organs Ltd http://www.cousansorgans.co.uk/restoration.html Goetze & Gwynn https://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/
Bibliography
© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
L.S. Barnard, ‘Buckingham’s Travels: Part I’, The Organ, vol.LII (1972- 73) no.205, pp.6-14; ‘Part III’, no.207, pp.99-106; ‘Part VI’, vol.LIII (1973-74) no.210, pp.17-24; ‘Part VII’, no.211, pp.78-85; ‘Part VIII’, no.212, pp.119-26; ‘Part VIX’, vol.LIV (1975-76) no.213, pp.41-8 Bevington & Sons, Organs recently erected by Bevington and Sons (c.1841); List of Organs recently built and erected by them (London, 1847) Tony, Jill & Romana Bevington, Bevington & Sons: Victorian Organ Builders. The life and times of four generations of the Bevington family, 2nd edn. (Bristol, 2022) James Boeringer, Organa Britannica. Organs in Great Britain 1660-1860 (3 vols., London, 1983-9) Ralph Bootman, ‘More organs from the house of Bishop’, Musical Opinion (Summer 1999) pp.213-4 Roger Booty, ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 1: Chelmsford’s Black Chapel’, The Music Box, vol.7 no.7 (Autumn 1976) pp.276-7; ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 2: Fobbing Church Barrel Organ’, The Music Box, vol.7 no.8 (Christmas 1976) p.302 & vol.11 no.2 (Summer 1983) pp.80-3; ‘Barrel Organ Redivivus 3: Barnston Parish Church’, The Music Box, vol.8 no.1 (Spring 1977) pp.28-30; ‘The Dumb Organist’, The Music Box, vol.8 no.7 (Autumn 1978) pp.296-8 Noel Boston, ‘Music of the Eighteenth Century Village Church’, Archaeological Journal, vol.99 (1942) pp. 53-66; ‘Barrel Full of Tunes’, Church Times (9 July 1954) p. 531; ‘The Barrel Organ’, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, New Series, vol.7 (1959) pp.99-124; ‘The Barrel Organ’, in: Music, Libraries and Instruments: Papers read at the Joint Congress, Cambridge, 1959, of the International Association of Music Libraries and The Galpin Society (London, 1961) pp.200-4; ‘Rise and Decline of the Church Band’, Country Life Annual (1961) pp.92-4 Noel Boston & Lyndesay G. Langwill, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs (Edinburgh, 1967) - see also Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston John Budgen, ‘Experiences with barrel organs’, BIOS Reporter (Apr. 1977) Hilary Davidson, Choirs, Bands and Organs (Oxford, 2003) Thomas Elliston, ‘The Barrel Organ in Church’, Musical Times (1 May 1920) pp.460-1 Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews: their Barrel, Chamber and Small Church organs (Lincoln, 1976); Bishop and Son Organ Builders: the Story of J.C. Bishop and his Successors (Lincoln, 1984) Flight & Sons, A Selection of PSALMS, HYMNS, &c. as Set on an ORGAN, The Gift of Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, to the Parish Church of Stratfield-Saye, Hants. The ORGAN, Built by FLIGHT & SONS, 16 King William Street, Strand, LONDON (London, 1835) Maurice Frost (ed.), Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient & Modern (1962) Freddy Hill, ‘The English Barrel Organ’, The Music Box, vol.1 no.4 (Christmas 1963) pp.9-19 John Hughes, The Singing Church in Essex: handbook to the exhibition of Essex church music held in Chelmsford Cathedral Chapter House during the second festival week, 3rd-12th June 1955 (1955) International Congress of Organists, Exhibition of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Barrel Organs […] at St Martin’s, Ludgate Hill, London, July 30th to August 2nd, 1957 Maggie Kilbey, ‘Meeting Report’, BIOS Reporter (Oct. 2013) pp.7-9; ‘Hexton, Hertfordshire: a tale of two organs’, Organists Review (June 2017) pp.40-41; ‘The early use of barrel organs in the English parish church’, JBIOS, 43 (2019) pp.58-71; Music-making in the Hertfordshire parish 1760 to 1870 (Hatfield, 2020); ‘Barrel organs in Essex parish churches’, JBIOS, 48 (forthcoming) E.S. Knights, ‘Barrel Organs’, The Essex Review (Oct. 1933) pp.165-8; ‘Fobbing Barrel Organ’, Musical Opinion (Dec. 1974) Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) K.H. MacDermott, Sussex Church Music in the Past (Chichester, 1922); The Old Church Gallery Minstrels (London, 1948) Rodney Matthews, A Reluctant Convert. The Life and Times of G.M. Holdich: Organ Builder (West Malling, 2013) Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume, Barrel Organ (London, 1978) Robert Pacey, Lincolnshire Church Organs (Burgh le Marsh, 2002) A.V. Phillips, ‘Barrel Organs in Churches’, The Essex Review (Jul. 1918) pp.157-8 J.N. Phillips, ‘Three Rutland Organs’, Musical Opinion (Aug. 1928) pp.1087-8 Percy A. Scholes, 'Barrel organs in church', Radio Times (2 Mar. 1934) H.B. Sharp, ‘The church band and the dumb organist’, The Organ (Apr. 1957) Nicholas Temperley, The Music of the English Parish Church, Cambridge Studies in Church Music (2 vols., Cambridge, 1979), 1 Christopher Turner, ‘Pins, barrels and dumb organists’, Choir & Organ (Jan. 1997) pp.21-3; ‘Miserable Dumbledores: A Paper on Barrel Organs’, BIOS Reporter (Apr. 1997) pp.5-9; ‘Miserable Machines: the Role of the Barrel Organ within Georgian Psalmody’, in: C. Turner (ed.), Georgian Psalmody 2. The Interaction Between Urban and Rural Practice (Corby Glen, 1999) pp.65-72; ‘When organists were dumb and ‘grinders’ gave the lead’, Church Music Quarterly (Apr. 2000) pp.20-1; ‘Psalmody Singing and the Role of the Barrel Organ in the Anglican Church of the Nineteenth Century’, in: J. Dibble & B. Zon, Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies (Aldershot, 2002) pp.32-45 Christopher Wenlock, ‘Old Barrel-organs in Sussex Churches’, Sussex County Magazine (Jan. 1955) pp.8-11 Harry Woodhouse, Face the Music. Church and Chapel Bands in Cornwall (St Austell, 1997)
Online resources: The British Institute of Organ Studies, British Organ Archive (BOA) The British Institute of Organ Studies, The National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR) The British Library/Findmypast, The British Newspaper Archive (includes many, but not all, British newspapers) The Institute of Historical Research, British History Online (BHO) University of Illinois, The Hymn Tune Index https://hymntune.library.illinois.edu/ Organ builders/restorers: Cousans Organs Ltd http://www.cousansorgans.co.uk/restoration.html Goetze & Gwynn https://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/
Bibliography