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THE CHAPEL ORGAN

The organ in the Dame Monica Wills Chapel is the donation of the Wills Hall Association. It was dedicated in November 2008 with an inaugural recital by the University Organist, Dr Glyn Jenkins. There had been an organ in the chapel previously, but its lead pipes were stolen in 1978 and the remainder of the instrument was removed during the 1980s. 

 

Aware of the need for a good instrument for worship and concerts, the Chair of the WHA, Richard Cross, launched a far-reaching funding campaign. £40,000 were raised to buy and fully refurbish an organ originally built for the St Alban's International Organ Festival in 1987 and then installed in the Christian Science Church in Clifton. Peter Collins of Melton Mowbray oversaw its re-installation in the Chapel with a new case complete with the Wills Hall crest. 

The organ has a tracker action with a mechanical stop action. Couplers are activated or deactivated by unsprung pedals. Manuals have 56 keys, CC-g3, the Pedal has 30 keys, CCC-f. Balanced swell pedal. The specification is as follows:

Pedal

16 — Subbass

Manual I

8 — Gemshorn
4 — Principal
2 — Octave
II — Mixture II

Manual II

8 — Gedact
8 — Gamba
4 — Rohrflöte
2⅔ — Nasard
2 — Gemshorn
1⅗ — Tierce

Couplers

Manual I to Pedal
Manual II to Pedal
Manual II to Manual I

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