Always interested in organs and organ music- I should know more than I do, having been married to an organist for 62 years. Now, hearing them, hurts a bit because he passed on just three years ago. He gained Associate of London College of Music in mid-life, in spite of a full-time job and family life. He held a parish church job for 34 years with an organ from St. Catharine's College Cambridge, and was treated very fairly by Dr. Le Heury-about 1976-78. It has always been highly thought of in our parish of St. John the Evangelist in St. Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. Sorry, I can't recall the name of the organ builder, - it was very well known among the organ buffs. He was offered a place to study as a young man at St. Margaret's Westminster, but couldn't take it up, because his widowed mother needed his small income to help her bring up his two younger brothers. He was always in demand for weddings and concerts, some local recitals, and a concert with a group of musicians in Chantilly, in France.
Thank you Sheila. Your late husband's organ at St. Leonards was a Harrison & Harrison - rather a good one. I used once to live just round the corner from their factory in Durham. Best wishes, John.
