Fannie & Fox

I Hear Thy Welcome Voice

Richard Shireby plays the 1877 Conacher tracker pipe organ in the workshop of Ireland-Shireby church organ builders (Lincolnshire, UK) as the organ nears the completion of it's restoration.

This item was recorded off the workshop's internal CCTV system as an experiment & an alternative of using a camcorder. Sound is recorded through a pair of Shure SM57 microphones. All the cameras are Sony, and fed through a Panasonic digital video mixer.

This was recorded as a special request. I had previously not hear of this hymn & managed to find it in a hymn book previously owned by my late Grandfather, the 'Sacred Songs & Solos' by I Sankey; a hymn book from the late Victorian era. It is fitting, therefore, that this hymn was loved by the requstee's Grandfather and that I have played it on an 1877 organ from an 1890's hymn book, belonging to my late Grandfather born in 1891