12 October

I have just collected the new pipes from Leeds and delivered them to Mike’s workshop.

The new pipes stored at home still wrapped and waiting to go to the workshop (the dark coloured pipe on the right is one ‘rescued’ from Leak and used as the model for the new pipes)

The inside of the foot of a new reed pipe showing the brass parts that vibrate when wind passes through them and the tuning pin used to shorten/lengthen the shallot for tuning purposes

14 September

Today Emily and I took the sample Bassoon pipes rescued from the demolished organ at St Mary’s, Leek to Booth & Co in Leeds, who will make a new set of 13 matching pipes for a new bottom octave, whilst the rest are being restored by Mike Thompson. These will be the only new pipes in the organ. Although the All Souls organ has a bass reed stop, there were no bass pipes!

15 July

Today I went with our organ builders, M C Thompson go to St Wilfred’s, Cotton to remove and preserve around 200 delicate pipes while we wait for permission from the Archdiocese to use them at All Souls.