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Cumbrian Society of Organists |
Our next event is the Annual General Meeting, following an organ recital by Edward Taylor, at 7 pm on Wednesday 8 May, at St. Oswald's Church, Grasmere.
Organ Work News
St. Cuthbert's, Cliburn, a few miles south of Penrith, has a small 2-manual Wilkinson organ, c.1882, where the bellows leather was disintegrating. The old bellows have been replaced with a new single-rise reservoir, so the wind supply is much improved. Work done by Andrew Carter, with new bellows by Chris Holford.
At St. Mary's, Thornwaite (near Keswick) the organ was removed from the church by Harrison & Harrison in 2016 following shallow flooding of the building during Storm Desmond. It has since been stored at the H&H works near Durham until its recent return and rebuilding on its platform on the north side of the church. Orginally built by Harrsion in 1891, it is unaltered apart from the swapping of the 4' stops between Great and Dwell in 1879 and sounds well in the church with its stone floors and mostly plain walls.
