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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.

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

A notebook recording the voluntaries for the school organ played for the senior and junior services throughout the academic year 1975-1976.

Order of service for the dedication of the organ in the School Chapel on 26 July 1930. includes the programme for the recital by O.O. Professor Frank Henry Shera (1901).

A list of Trustees, Old Oakhamians, Parents of present boys and Personal friends who raised the Sargant Presentation Fund in order that an organ might be placed in Oakham School Memorial Chapel. The book was presented to Walter Lee Sargant by Colonel Sir Herbert Bryan on 26 July 1930 when the organ was dedicated. Thirteen pages A to M.

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.

This photographic file focuses on the building of the new Peter Collins organ in the School Chapel in 1993 and the recital.

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

This file focuses on the correspondence between Oakham School and organ builders, including Peter Collins Ltd, since 1990 and giving an insight as to the building and installation of the new organ in the School Chapel. Some letters were sent/ received between the Headmaster Graham Smallbone and the White and Lea families regarding an inscription in memory of David White and Henrietta Lea.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins, regarding the previous quotation and preliminary proposals for a new organ in the School Chapel. This letter is a reply to CHA/5/2/2/9.