SteveHB Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I wonder how many organs they made or renovated, not only locally, as it appears that some went a lot further afield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Renovation to St. Paul's, Pinstone Street, published on the 10th of October 1871. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I wonder how many organs they made or renovated, not only locally, as it appears that some went a lot further afield. According to J.R Knott in his "A Study of Brindley and Foster - organbuilders of Sheffield 1854 - 1939" - their pneumatic control system was "the greatest fraud ever attempted to be foisted on the musical public" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rshireby Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Regarding the quote from J R Knott's book about "the greatest fraud etc...". As an owner of the said book, Mr Knott was quoting statements made at the time bot for & against the work of B & F. I am a church organ builder. At the time we are talking about c1900, you could order an organ from Brindle & Foster exactly as you wanted it & although they were obviously keen on pushing their "Metacotic" multi-Pallet pneumatic action, you could also have ordered an organ with traditional mechanical tracker action & also with 'conventional' pneumatic action. I have a 1911 'conventional' B&F organ in stock here for workshop restoration/rebuilding & everything about it is of the highest quality, the swell box is a ridiculous overkill & could have been much thinner & lighter. We will be putting the organ on electric action & just retain the main pneumatic motors within the conventional slider soundboards. I think what the person was saying who said "the greatest fraud etc" was that he had seen the console of on of B&F's Metacotic pneumatic nightmare actions & no doubt spotted a row of stops labelled 'transformers'. When these were selected, the organ could do things that the 'normal' drawstops couldn't including shifting the odd stop from it's normal manual (keyboard) to another & even shifting another rank of pipes up an octave from normal. These pneumatic 'extra features' were simply that. I reckon he thought that these were being sold by B&F as extra stops...more bang for your buck, but they weren't being sold like that at all. If one opted to buy an organ on their metacotic system you could opt for a whole host of accessories, the 'Brindgradus' general crescendo pedal, the blind toe pistons, the transformers I've just mentioned, and much much more. You could end up with a pneumatic flight deck of an organ. Conversely, you could also have their nightmare multi-pallet pneumatic action without any accessories whatsoever. I've seen & worked on plenty in my 38 year career. Other makes also build organs with multi-pallet action & I have one here, again for restoration & rebuild from Lidiatt & Sons from the south coast. we are going to have to rebuild it on multi-magnet direct electric action & it will be a very expensive project, but will result in a lovely instrument worth doing...the cost will be around 20% of building that organ from new, so not that scarey. The mechanical tracker action B&F organs just need normal restoration work, the pneumatic ones need rebuilding on electric action, but the man saying "the greatest fraud etc" all those years ago had the wrong end of the stick and or lacked real knowledge. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Organ maker...another trade/industry to add to the long list of trades we once had in this fair city of ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saw119 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 3 hours ago, lysander said: Organ maker...another trade/industry to add to the long list of trades we once had in this fair city of ours. Some of my ancestors list their occupation as 'organ pipe maker'. One member actually lived on Suffolk road which is the same road that Brindley and Fosters operated from (Columbia Place). I've long theorised that he worked for them. They actually made the pipes that were used in the organs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Church of St John, Wall, Staffordshire. First Brindley & Foster organ I have seen. It was a rather dark church, so the images are not as good as I would have liked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 https://www.pipelinepress.com/brindley-and-foster-byway.html https://www.pipelinepress.com/the-demise-of-brindley-and-foster.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Charles Brindley, Organ Builder, Carver Street. Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862 Established by Charles Brindley 1854 Joined by Albert Healey Foster 1871 became Brindley & Foster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindley_%26_Foster Brindley & Foster, Suffolk Road premises. 1897 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10095&pos=3&action=zoom&id=13180 2009 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;c04268&pos=1&action=zoom&id=91859 1987 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s37102&pos=2&action=zoom&id=113695 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Charles Brindley, organ builder, 9 Carver Street. Worksops adjoining St. Matthews Church. Advertisement Whites Directory 1856. Whites Directory 1862. Brindley, Charles, organ builder, 30 Carver Street, h. 40 Upper Hanover Street. Whites Directory 1879. Brindley, Charles, (B & Foster) h. 38 Wilkinson Street. Brindley & Foster, organ builders, Columbia Pl, Suffolk Road. Foster, Albert Healey, organ builder (Brindley & F) h. Endclffe Cottage, Fulwood Road. Just some of the many links found to Brindley and Brindley & Foster Organs. https://www.stmaryschurchtickhill.com/history-the-church-organ https://origin-production.wikiwand.com/en/Brindley_%26_Foster https://mander-organs-forum.invisionzone.com/topic/2913-brindley-foster/ https://www.magle.dk/music-forums/threads/brindley-and-foster-organ-restored-in-edinburgh-scotland.13346/ https://stmarysecclesfield.org.uk/organ https://www.forthpipeorgans.co.uk/projects/freemasons-hall-george-street-edinburgh/ https://m.facebook.com/groups/355269498442029/posts/862331981069109/ https://ohscatalog.org/the-organ-at-the-grand-lodge-edinburgh/ https://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk/organ/restoration-1865-brindley-organ-st-peters-church-elmton/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/30120216@N07/26474140521 https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/worksop-st-anne/horgan.php https://www.stephenbicknell.org/3.6.5.php https://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/AlbertHallLaunceston.html https://www.lavenderaudio.co.uk/organs/armley/history.html https://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/stpaulschurchsheffield.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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