© DDOA 2010
Members met at St. John’s Heritage Centre, Belper for an evening of CDs and DVDs.
Featured organs were from France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, USA and Britain.
Also included was a DVD of a three manual harpsichord and a CD of two Christie Theatre Organs.
The evening was presented by Peter Williams.
An evening of audio tracks and pictures illustrating Danish organ music and organs
was presented by David Butterworth at St. Werburgh’s, Spondon. The talk featured
organs in Roskilde Cathedral, Frederiksburg Castle and organs built by Marcussen,
Carsten Lund, Bruno Christensen and Poul-
David Butterworth
holding: “Organ Building and Design”
a treasured book
by the Danish organbuilder
(Poul-
Our visit to St. John’s was to see the newly rebuilt ‘Father’ Willis organ.(1875)
Edmund Stow (organ builder) gave a talk on the organ, its history and the processes involved in the rebuild.
Andrew Storer then gave a short recital of preludes demonstrating the tonal qualities of the organ. Member then had the opportunity to try it out for themselves.
Apr: Annual Outing, Malvern and Worcester
July: Stanton by Bridge and Swarkestone
June: Annual Dinner
Our Annual Dinner was held at Alison House, Cromford.
The guest speaker was . Dr. Peter Chatfield, General Secretary of the IAO.
St. Michael, Stanton-
Organ case. At the West end.
Organ console
For our July event we visited the two small villages of Swarkestone and Stanton-
Dr. Peter Chatfield
Photo © L. Rogers