Legacy
His instruments can be found across the world, particularly in the former British Empire, and his superb reed voicing and excellent mechanical craftmanship can still be experienced on many instruments today.
Four generations of the Willis family continued the family tradition of organ building until 1997 when Henry Willis 4 retired, and the first non-family Managing Director was appointed. On the 28th November 1998 the total shareholding of all of the Willis family members was acquired. The Company, founded in 1845, Henry Willis & Sons, Ltd. still makes organs in Liverpool.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)