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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.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the carvings on the organ and the tuning of the new organ.

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.

A letter from Peter Collins, Organ Builder, to the headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding a delay in the installation of the organ due to lack of progress and the prospective events for the organ and celebrations for its installation.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding the installation of the organ and the proposed festival for the following year and discussing an exhibition in the Bowes Room.

A letter from Graham Smallbone to Peter Collins regarding problems with the new instruments and the upset at the unfinished nature of the organ.

A letter from the headmaster Graham Smallbone thanking Peter Collins, Organ Builder, for all of his work on the new organ and, despite it's unfinished nature, how magnificent the instrument is.

A paper written by Graham Smallbone on the organ in Chapel, revised for the full meeting of Trustees following the Financial & General purposes Committee Meeting. Contents: Decline and Fall; Solutions, The Pipe Organ; The Alternative; and Conclusion.

Four photographs of five people posing in front of the new Peter Collins organ in the School Chapel. They are (L to R): Peter Collins (Builder), David Woodcock (Head of Music), Peter Hurford (Organist), Graham Smallbone (Headmaster) and Simon Schanschieff (Chairman of the Trustees). The photographs are all slightly different (A to D).

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Liz and Chester White regarding the installation of the new organ and discussing an inscription that could be made to honour David White and Henrietta Lea.