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Chapel Oakham School Organ
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  • CHA-CHA/5
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1993

    • Part of Chapel

This series focuses on the history of the organs in the School Chapel, from the first one installed in 1930 to the current instruments built in 1993.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Organ, 1930

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1930 - 1976

    • Part of Chapel

This sub-series focuses on the history of the first Chapel organ, dedicated in 1930.

Oakham School

Organ, 1993

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1986 - 1993

    • Part of Chapel

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

Peter Collins

A letter from Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/2-CHA/5/2/2/19
  • Item
  • 28/07/1992

    • Part of Chapel

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to peter Collins, Organ builder, regarding the carvings, which are a gift from the Whites, and the open day and the Derbyshire Organist Association.

Peter Collins

Proposed carving designs

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/2-CHA/5/2/2/21
  • Item
  • 1992

    • Part of Chapel

Two proposals for the carvings on the outer towers, panels and upper flats of the new organ. Two pages A and B.

Derek Riley

Two photographs of the new organ

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1-CHA/5/2/1/2
  • Item
  • 06/1993

    • Part of Chapel

Two black and white photographs of the new Peter Collins organ soon after its building in the School Chapel. The photographs A and B are identical but of different size.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

A photograph of the pipes

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1-CHA/5/2/1/3
  • Item
  • 01/1993

    • Part of Chapel

A photograph of the pipes, laying on the Chapel floor whilst the organ is being built in 1993.

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A photograph of the organ

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1-CHA/5/2/1/4
  • Item
  • 02/1993

    • Part of Chapel

A photograph of the new organ being built in the Chapel in February 1993.

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A photograph of Peter Hurford

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1-CHA/5/2/1/7
  • Item
  • 1993

    • Part of Chapel

A photograph of Peter Hurford sat at the organ, probably rehearsing for the dedication recital.

Roger Blackmore

A photograph of the organ

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/2-CHA/5/2/1-CHA/5/2/1/9
  • Item
  • 01/1993

    • Part of Chapel

A photograph of the new organ being built in the School Chapel, with scaffolds in front of it.

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