Organ
A new organ was installed by Makin in 2002. This 4-manual digital instrument replaced a 2-manual pipe organ by Jardine, installed in 1951. The Jardine instrument was itself a replacement for a short-lived experimental design by Compton of 1938, involving remote pipework relayed into the Cathedral by microphones and loudspeakers. Some of the Compton pipework was re-used in the Jardine instrument. The earliest instrument in Cathedral records was a four-manual instrument by W.E. Richardson sited in the north transept, installed in 1887.
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