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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

Oakham School Organ Voluntaries

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/1-CHA/5/1/1
  • Item
  • 1975-09 - 1976-07

    • Part of Chapel

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

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

Names of donors

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/1-CHA/5/1/3
  • Item
  • 26/07/1930

    • Part of Chapel

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.

Oakham School

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

Dedication of the Organ

  • CHA-CHA/5-CHA/5/1-CHA/5/1/2
  • Item
  • 26/07/1930

    • Part of Chapel

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).

Oakham School

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

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