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

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

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.

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.

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Lady Lea, Henrietta's mother, regarding the installation of the new organ and an inscription that could be made to honour David White and Henrietta Lea.