about the organ

In July 1989, Broadway Church embarked on a project which has involved enterprise, conservation and enrichment for the local community. The result is a four-manual organ of 51 speaking stops and over 2500 pipes. Dr Roy Massey (Organist and Master of Choristers at Hereford Cathedral), writing after his 1990 recital, said "...I congratulate you most sincerely on the successful outcome of a terrific undertaking..."

Building a large pipe organ would normally have been prohibitively expensive for a church the size of Broadway: the much publicised new organ at the Parish Church of Kingston-upon-Thames built at the same time cost over £250,000. By using an extremely talented local organ builder, and with help from volunteers who spent many hours carefully dismantling various redundant organs in local churches and transporting the parts to Broadway, our organ was built to a much smaller budget.
Thanks must go to churches in Halesowen, (Baptist), Walsall (Pleck Methodist), Wednesbury (King's Hill Methodist),and Woverhampton (St John's Methodist), and also from Rowley Regis College. Most of the instruments were originally built between 1900 and 1910 by two branches of the same family firm, Nicholson & Co of Worcester and Nicholson & Lord of Walsall.

Specification

Music page

Pedal

Choir

Great

Swell

Solo

Harmonic Bass 32
Open Wood 16
Violone 16
Bourdon 16
Lieblich Bourdon 16
Octave 8
Bass Flute 8
Quint 5⅓
Flute 4
Mixture III [15:19:22]
Trombone 16
Bassoon 16
Fagotto 8
Fagot 4

Choir to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
Solo to Pedal

Dulciana 8
Rohr Flute 8
Geigen Principal 4
Lieblich Flute 4
Nazard 2⅔
Piccolo 2
Tierce 1 3/5
Larigot 1 ⅓
Clarinet 8
Tremulant

Choir Octave
Swell to Choir

Lieblich Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Violin Diapason 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Principal 4
Wald Flute 4
Twelfth 2⅔
Fifteenth 2
Fourniture III [22:26:29]
Contra fagotto 16
Trumpet 8

Swell to Great
Swell Octave to Great
Swell Suboctave to Great
Solo to Great
Solo Octave to Great
Solo Suboctave to Great
Choir to Great
Great & Pedal combinations combined
Tuba on Great

Open Diapason 8
Lieblich Gedact 8
Viole d'amour 8
Viole Celeste 8
Principal 4
Gemshorn 2
Mixture III [17:19:22]
Vox Humana 8
Oboe 8
Cornopean 8
Clarion 4

Tremulant

Swell Octave
Swell Suboctave

Vienna Flute 8
Viola 8
Cornet V [1:8:12:15:17]
Orchestral Oboe 8
Tromba 8
Tuba 8

Solo Octave
Swell to Solo