• Great (56 notes)

• Swell (56 notes)

• Pedal (30 notes)

II/I   I/Ped.

II/Ped.

Tracker action throughout
Mechanical Stop action (knobs)
Balanced Swell Pedal
Two combinations pedals to Great

Christ Church, Bangkok, was built in 1904, in a simple Gothic style, adapted to the requirements of a tropical climate, to replace an older Church near the river.

In 1904, the present organ was built by Henry Willis & Co. of London. Having been tried out by the Organist of St.Paul's Cathedral and pronounced fit, it was shipped to Bangkok where it was held up for two weeks on the Chao Phraya River while the Royal Customs Department tried to decide what it was! A Mr. F.G. Barr, from Kuala Lumpur, travelled up to install it. It is the only pipe organ in Thailand, and one of the few still functioning in South-East Asia.

It was inspected by a representative of J.W. Walker in 1931, at the time they were installing an organ in Singapore Cathedral.

By 1975, the organ had become all but unuseable, and it was suggested that, in view of the cost of repair, it should be replaced by a piano or electric organ. The final decision was to rebuilt the organ, over a period of two year, by Peter Scott, the Manager of DuPont Chemicals (Thailand), with advice and diagrams from Henry Willis IV. Henry Willis himself came from the United Kingdom for two weeks to finish the rebuild.

Considering the lack of professional maintenance available, it is in remarkably fine condition, a tribute to the skill of the builder.