The organ plays again on Sunday
Twelve weeks of tuning and a new blower later, the 1871 organ is back for the autumn Sundays at Four.
Technical manager
3 min read
The organ went quiet in August. Not dramatically: a cipher on the swell, a note that would not stop, and then a blower that sounded like a lorry idling under the floor. Twelve weeks later it is back, and Martin Greaves plays it on Sunday 22 November.
What was done
The organ builders from Bury came for three visits. They replaced the blower with a quieter one in a box we lined with old curtains from the Vestry, re-leathered eleven pallets, and tuned every pipe, all 1,214 of them, over four nights when the Nave was empty.
What it cost
£14,600, of which the Friends gave £9,000 in five weeks. The rest came from the Sunday at Four audiences, one bucket at a time.
Come and listen
Sit in the gallery if you want to watch the pedals; the stairs are on the left of the west door. Martin shows what each stop does before he begins.
