Growth of His Reputation
For the Great Exhibition of 1851, Willis erected the largest of the organs exhibited. He introduced several novel features, which had a significant effect on organ design. Piston buttons were inserted between the manual to allow automatic selection of blocks of "stops", and Barker lever servo action was used on the manuals to enable the size and complexity of the instrument to be released from the constraints of tracker action connecting rods. After the exhibition ended, the instrument was erected as a cut-down version in Winchester Cathedral.
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