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Recent projects

The console for Epsom, St Martin of Tours,  received a significant upgrade. The manual keys are completely new, with a plentiful array of pistons and accessories, including stepper pistons in the treble end key cheek. The Taylor piston capture action has been expanded within its design capacity to provide additional memory levels.

Yalding, St Margaret's Church : Cleaning of a II/P 21 stop 1909 Conacher organ.  Tonally unaltered, save the addition of a full-length wooden Trombone 16' in 1981, this organ retains its cone-tuning and boasts a substantial Great Diapason 8' with leathered lips.  This organ is astonishingly powerful with unusually vigorous chorus reeds.  The Swell and Great electro-pneumatic stop machines have also been fully refurbished.  There is a slightly sad tale attached to this organ.  Conacher's foreman, Musson, died in a fall from the loading dock when the Yalding organ was being despatched from the workshop.

Balcombe Place, Sussex Our remit here was to repair and clean damaged display pipes and provide replacements for missing bays, made to the original pattern. Unfortunately the III/P 1905 Bishop organ is not in playable condition and will remain out of use. The nearby railway viaduct is a famous landmark with an unusual design of supporting arches, attracting visitors from far and wide.

St Nicholas, Plumstead SE18 engaged us to re-home a I/P 4 stop Alfred Kirkland organ from Green Street Methodist Church, Teynham, nr Sittingbourne.  It stands adjacent to the Nave, pending a final move to a west End position, after renovation of the main organ at the East end.

In the summer of 2023 we cleaned the II/P 1778 Snetzler organ in Cobham Hall, Kent, for English Heritage.

Refurbishment of the organ at Christ Church, Kilndown was completed in early 2025. This 1985 II/P four rank extension organ has gained a new processor-based switching system, incorporating MIDI facilities and a simple piston capture action.  The expression pedal has been made all-electric, so that MIDI files can be recorded and replayed, reproducing the expression pedal movements.

New Pedal contacts have been fitted to the console at Tunbridge Wells, St John's Church, after 32 years of service since the last rebuild.  All the pipes have been cleaned. This fine IIIP/ 30 stop Walker organ dates from 1904, superseding an earlier (and rare) Bryceson & Morten organ, gifted to the Skinners' School, just along the road.

Mereworth, St Lawrence  All the pipework was cleaned during 2024.  The following year, the Pedal Bourdon 16' windchest came into the workshop for overhaul and releathering of the pneumatic action.  This is a most handsome II/P Gray & Davison organ in a fine Palladian-style church, famous for its 'wedding-cake' spire, trompe l'oeil organ case painting in the West Gallery, faux-marble pillars and delightful acoustics.

The 1981 II/P 13 Freiburger Orgelbau instrument in Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church, Orpington is to undergo overhaul of keys and pedals, plus cleaning of pipework 2026/7.

A one-manual 3 stop organ tracker organ by Alfred Kirkland is in the workshop now for renovation.  The instrument was an unfinished restoration project in a private dwelling but originated from Ticehurst Methodist Church.

The 1911 II/P 11 stop Bevington/Norman & Beard organ at St Margaret's Church, Halstead has been repaired. A heavy fall of plaster from the ceiling smashed parts of the Swell stop-slider action, necessitating the removal of pipes to access the windchest and make repairs.

After Easter 2026, we shall be cleaning the 1894 II/P 7 Ingram organ at St Mary, Magdalene, Wartling, E. Sussex - close to the Herstmonceux Observatory.

Also planned for the summer of 2026 are repairs to the much-loved III/P 35 1915 T C Lewis organ at Penge Congregational Church. The Pedal Open Bass 16' fell victim to water-damage and the heavy-pressure bellows is in need of refurbishment.

Thanks to good colleagues, the heavy-pressure wind regulator on the IV/P 58 stop organ in  St George's Church, Beckenham came out for re-leathering during Lent but returned in timely fashion, ready for the Great week.