2015
TL4458 : Organ in St Catharine's College Chapel
taken 9 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Organ in St Catharine's College Chapel
The double case - incorporating the inscription Laudate Dominum ("Praise ye the Lord") - was designed by Thomas Garner and constructed by the Cambridge joinery firm Rattee & Kett in 1895 to house an organ built by Norman & Beard using pipework of 1862 from the Unitarian chapel in Little Portland Street, London and later said to be in use at the church of St James in Watford Fields
Link . The identity of the original builders is uncertain but Nicholas Thistlethwaite in "The Organs of Cambridge" (1983) suggests they may have been Bishop, Starr & Richardson. Within this casework a virtually new 3-manual instrument (though incorporating several of the existing registers) was built in 1978 by E.J. Johnson of Cambridge to a specification by Peter le Huray. Further renovation and revoicing was carried out by the Dutch firm Flentrop of Zaandam in 2002, when the wind pressures were reduced to match the sound of the organ better to the acoustics of the chapel.
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