[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/john-compton-organ-builder-wikipedia-2\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/john-compton-organ-builder-wikipedia-2\/","headline":"John Compton (organ builder) – Wikipedia","name":"John Compton (organ builder) – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia after-content-x4 British organ builder (1876\u20131957) after-content-x4 Restored Apollo pipe organ console John Compton (1876\u20131957),","datePublished":"2014-12-09","dateModified":"2014-12-09","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/36\/Apollo_organ_console_small.jpg\/250px-Apollo_organ_console_small.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/36\/Apollo_organ_console_small.jpg\/250px-Apollo_organ_console_small.jpg","height":"178","width":"250"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/john-compton-organ-builder-wikipedia-2\/","wordCount":1365,"articleBody":"     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});before-content-x4From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4British organ builder (1876\u20131957)         (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Restored Apollo pipe organ consoleJohn Compton (1876\u20131957), born in Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire was a pipe organ builder.[1] His business based in Nottingham and London  flourished between 1902 and 1965.[2]John Compton was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham and then studied as an apprentice with Halmshaw & Sons in Birmingham. In 1898 he joined Brindley and Foster in Sheffield.[3] Then he joined Charles Lloyd in Nottingham.He set up the business Musson & Compton in 1902 in Nottingham with James Frederick Musson. The partnership dissolved in 1904. In 1919, the business moved to workshops at Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, London, which had been vacated by August Gern. He occupied a new factory at Chase Road, Park Royal, North Acton, London in 1930.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Compton worked primarily on electric-action pipe organs and electronic organs.  Compton’s first electronic instrument was the Melotone (a solo voice added to theatre organs);[4][5] next came the Theatrone. The Electrone, an electrostatic  tonewheel instrument introduced in 1938, evolved out of research by Leslie Bourn, an association begun in the 1920s.[3] Throughout his organ-building career, John Compton was assisted by the very capable and inventive James Isaac Taylor, who spent his entire working life with the Compton firm prior to his death in 1958. John Compton also befriended a wealthy industrialist by the name of Albert Henry Midgley; one of the founders of C A Vandervell, which was later to become CAV-Lucas Ltd; a major supplier of electrical equipment to the motor industry. Midgley was one of the most prolific inventors of his age, with over 900 inventions to his name and following a rift with C A V-Lucas,he was appointed Technical Director of the Compton firm soon after, in 1925. Midgley’s genius in electrical engineering and mass-production techniques, helped the Compton firm to achieve an extraordinary level of productivity.  The company were awarded many original patents in things ranging from simple organ mechanisms to the most complex, state of the art electronic and electrical inventions. Many of those patents show that Midgley was cited as the inventor.On 13 June 1940, during World War II, Compton was arrested while holidaying on the island of Capri, in Italy. He was interned as an enemy alien but spent much of his time restoring pipe organs, before being permitted to return to England.Compton died in 1957, and the business continued under the direction of his right-hand man, James I Taylor. Taylor died the year after in 1958, and the business was wound up around 1965. The pipe organ department was sold to Rushworth and Dreaper; the electronic department became Makin Organs.[3]Table of ContentsCompton organs[edit]List of new organs[edit]Rebuilds and restorations[edit]References[edit]Other sources[edit]External links[edit]Compton organs[edit]Compton cinema organs, built by the John Compton Organ Company of Acton, were the most prevalent of theatre organs in the UK; 261 were installed in cinemas and theatres in the British Isles. Comptons made many fine church and concert organs as well. Their cinema organs employed the latest technology and engineering and many are still in existence today. One of the most notable is the large 5 manual example at the Odeon Cinema Leicester Square in central London.List of new organs[edit]All Souls’ Church, Radford 1903Emmanuel Church, Nottingham 1903United Methodist Free Church, Stapleford 1903Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall 1903Emmanuel Church, New Park St, Leicester 1905St Wilfrid’s Church, Cantley 1905Selby Abbey 1906St. Peter’s School Chapel, York 1907Launceston Wesleyan Church 1909Holdenhurst Road Methodist Church, Bournemouth 1909Westbourne Wesleyan Church, Bournemouth 1910Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Nottingham 1914Stowmarket Parish Church, 1922St Swithun’s Church, Cheswardine, Shropshire, 1922 memorial for those killed in the 1914-1918 warShepherd’s Bush Pavilion 1923Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre 1929Elite Picture Theatre, Nottingham 1930Chapel Cranleigh School Surrey 1930. Eight Ranks, Three manuals. Lasted until 1978. Verifiable on NPOR siteChurch of St Osmund, Parkstone 1931Downside Abbey 1931St. Mary Magdelene’s Church, Paddington 1932Church of St Edmund the King and Martyr, Lombard Street, London 1932BBC Concert Hall Broadcasting House, London 1932Broadway Theatre, Catford, 1932:- (contemporaneously, a music hall)Plaza Cinema, Stockport 1932St Luke’s Church, Chelsea 1932Odeon Cinema, Weston-super-Mare 1935St. Benedict’s Priory, Ealing 1935East Church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen 1936Southampton Guildhall 1936Regent Street Cinema, London 1936Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square 1937Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Worthing 1937 (formerly St Columba’s Presbyterian Church)Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1938Methodist Mission, Great Yarmouth 1938St John’s Cathedral, Salford 1938Church House, Westminster 1939Christchurch Priory 1951St Eugene’s Cathedral, Derry 1956St Bride’s Church London 1957St George’s Cathedral, Southwark 1958St Alban Golders Green, LondonWestover (now ABC) Cinema, Bournemouth c.1937Astoria Cinema, Pokesdown c.1930s(the last two organs are unconfirmed, but their existence is attested to by local documentary sources; the Westover instrument is now in private hands at Ryde on the Isle of Wight; the Astoria instrument no longer exist)Rebuilds and restorations[edit]References[edit]Other sources[edit]External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/john-compton-organ-builder-wikipedia-2\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"John Compton (organ builder) – Wikipedia"}}]}]