Meldreth

Holy Trinity, Meldreth (Cambridgeshire)

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

Originally a barrel organ, this instrument was purchased from St Peter & St Paul, Bassingbourn in 1865 for £100. In 1866 J.W. Walker converted it into a barrel & finger organ. The barrel mechanism is operated from the rear. The Gothic case has three panels of gold painted dummy pipes. Restored in 1974 by Norman Hall & Sons, Cambridge. Two (formerly three) green carriage-mounted barrels x 12 tunes. The original tunelist is illegible.

References: The Organist and Choirmaster (Jun. 1900), p. 52; ‘Notes of the Month’, The Antiquary (1907), p. 248; MacDermott (1948); Boston & Langwill (1967); Turner (2002); NPOR N03061.

BARREL 1 GREEN

Tune

Metre

1.1

Evening Hymn

1.2

Old 100th

1.3

Helmsley

1.4

Islington

1.5

Cambridge New

1.6

Abridge

1.7

Colchester

1.8

Carlisle

1.9

Carey’s

1.10

Darwell’s 148th

1.11

Hanover

1.12

Easter Hymn

BARREL 2 GREEN

Tune

Metre

2.1

[badly damaged]

2.2

Morning Hymn [Barthélémon]

2.3

New Sabbath

2.4

Angel’s Song

2.5

Portugal New

2.6

Abingdon

2.7

Bedford

2.8

Canterbury New

2.9

Manchester New

2.10

New York

2.11

Mount Ephraim

2.12

Martin’s Lane

Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches

Holy Trinity, Meldreth (Cambridgeshire)

Originally a barrel organ, this instrument was purchased from St Peter & St Paul, Bassingbourn in 1865 for £100. In 1866 J.W. Walker converted it into a barrel & finger organ. The barrel mechanism is operated from the rear. The Gothic case has three panels of gold painted dummy pipes. Restored in 1974 by Norman Hall & Sons, Cambridge. Two (formerly three) green carriage- mounted barrels x 12 tunes. The original tunelist is illegible.

References: The Organist and Choirmaster (Jun. 1900), p. 52; ‘Notes of the Month’, The Antiquary (1907), p. 248; MacDermott (1948); Boston & Langwill (1967); Turner (2002); NPOR N03061.