It belonged to a lovely old lady called Joan who died a year ago, just before her 99th birthday.
She was the organist at her local church, and her husband built the organ so that she could practise at home. Their neighbours were students and apparently Joan would say she always made sure not to play too loudly or late at night so that it wouldn’t disturb their work.
We love Joan. And what a husband to do this for her!
You just hope somebody buys it that doesn’t want to rip it out - unlikely though…maybe there is a society or something - would be nice for it to be preserved!
I had a friend/colleague who collected organs, both he and his son played, he had a couple of pipe organs amongst electronic ones set up in his garage at the end of his garden! Must have been a big garage. I can’t imagine what he is going to do when he moves house.
Yes, it depends where you want to live in Bristol, as you rightly point out Clifton is pricy and too rich for me. That is a very modest place by Clifton standards.
Also very handily located for access to our local Audio-T !
