© Maggie Kilbey & Marcel Glover 2024
Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Holy Trinity, Blacktoft
(Yorks, E. Riding)
Barrel organ by an unknown
builder, installed when the church
was rebuilt following storm
damage in 1841-2.
The organ was moved to its
present location below the gallery
in 1965, is operated from the rear
and blown by pedal. The Gothic
case is painted dark red and gold
to match the west gallery in which
it was originally located, and has
three flats of gold painted dummy
pipes (3-7-3) backed with gold
cloth.
Stop list: Open Diapason 8’, Stopped Diapason 8’, Principal 4’, Flute 4’.
Repaired by John Budgen in 1965. Tunes recorded in 2001.
Originally 2 barrels x 10 tunes corresponding with the handwritten list
pasted to the casework, but barrel 1 is now missing.
BARREL 1
** MISSING **
Metre
1.1
Evening Hymn
LM
1.2
St David
CM
1.3
Sicilian Mariners
7s.
1.4
Bennet’s
CM
1.5
Calvary
PM
1.6
Durham
SM
1.7
Devizes
CM
1.8
Portuguese
LM
1.9
Hanover
104th
1.10
Bedford
CM
References: Boston & Langwill (1967); NPOR, H00824.
BARREL 2
Tune
Metre
2.1
PM
2.2
LM
2.3
CM
2.4
LM
2.5
CM
2.6
7s.
2.7
LM
2.8
SM
2.9
PM
2.10
LM