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The first record of an organ dates from 1310, with a smaller organ, probably for the Lady Chapel, being installed in 1415. In 1620 a new organ, built by Thomas Dallam, was installed at a cost of £398 1s 5d, however this was destroyed by parliamentary soldiers in 1643 and another new organ was built in 1662, [1] which was enlarged in 1786, [2 ...
Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choirboys, dates its foundation to this point. [21] There is, however, some controversy over this. Following the Norman Conquest, John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. [22] The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy ...
Denys Duncan Rivers Pouncey was born on 23 December 1906 and was educated at Marlborough College and Queens' College, Cambridge.. In 1935 he founded the Northampton Bach Choir.
Thomas Henry Davis was born on 25 September 1867 in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham.. In 1892, he became curate at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, moving to Wells Cathedral in 1895 as priest vicar.
Four generations of the Willis family continued the family tradition of organ building until 1997, when Henry Willis IV retired and the first non-family Managing Director was appointed. On 28 November 1998 the total shareholding of the Willis family was acquired. The company, founded in 1845, Henry Willis & Sons, Ltd. still makes organs in ...
Link Piano and Organ Company; Los Angeles Art Organ Company, The; Charles McManis (1913–2004) Marr and Colton, Warsaw, New York (1915–1932) Midmer-Losh Organ Company, Merrick, New York; M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Company, Hagerstown, Maryland; David A. Moore, North Pomfret, Vermont [137] Robert Morton Organ Company, Van Nuys, California (1920s ...
From 2004 to 2007 Vaughn was assistant director of music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral [5] before being appointed assistant organist at Wells Cathedral, where he served for ten years until 2017. He recorded five CDs with the Wells Cathedral choir and one with the Exon Singers, all under the direction of Matthew Owens.
He was later organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge. His organ teachers included Ralph Downes, Gillian Weir, and Nicolas Kynaston and he studied composition with Herbert Sumsion, Bernard Stevens and Alan Ridout. [2] Archer married Alison (an artist and musician) in 1994, and they have a son (b.1997) and a daughter (b.1999).