Providence Methodist Church, Golcar - Peter Conacher & Co 1901 (Job 1050).

Golcar Providence Methodist Church is located in the rural area of the Colne Valley near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England at the foot of the Pennine hills. The church organ is about 100 years old and has not had any modifications to it since it was built by Peter Conacher (Old Firm) of Huddersfield. It has tracker action to the 3 manuals and pneumatic-tracker action on the pedals. The original organ is tuned to A=452Hz which is known as the “old Philharmonic high pitch”. The organ has a balanced swell pedal and there are three composition levers operated by the foot for each of the Swell and Great manuals. The compass is 58/30 notes.

The sound samples were recorded by Chris Pearson in 2013 - over a period of two days, sampling every sounding pipe. Some pipes, mainly on the pedal 16 foot Diapason and a few on the Bourdon ranks, no longer sound (and so have been digitally re-created from surrounding notes), with a few on the manuals also not sounding correctly. The façade pipes are part of the No.1 Open Diapason rank. Sampling was done using a Tascam DR-05 Linear PCM recorder at 16-bit 48 MHz in stereo at a distance of 2 metres from the console. Chris produced a soundfont from his recordings, and released a jOrgan version of the organ in 2013

In 2015 I was given permission to work on the samples, in order to create other versions of the sample set. I processed the raw recordings (noise reduction, tuning, adding loop and release markers) and have created this sample set for Hauptwerk. I also created a slightly extended version of the organ, which installs and runs alongside the original.

The presets are set to what they are on the original console.

See the NPOR Listing to view the original specification and history of the organ.

RAM requirements:

16-bit: 1.6Gb RAM

Order Form:

To order the installation file for this organ please go to the Classical / Church VPOs order form to select this organ and fill in your information, and we will send you the link to download the sample set.