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Thomas was born in Banbury, England. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley, before going on to read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he was organ scholar. Upon graduating, he spent a year studying for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
In 1957, Gulbransen released the first transistorized electric organ "Gulbransen Model B" (Model 1100), [2] although its use of transistors was limited to the tone generators, and vacuum tubes were still used for the power amplifier. (The first fully transistorized organ for churches was later built by Rodgers Instruments.)
By 1930 the medical officer reported 131 Banbury town centre houses unfit for habitation. Therefore, in 1933, Banbury council opened the Ruscote housing estate of 160 houses. The increased population between 1931 and 1949 was accommodated by the expansion of the town in three main areas, of which houses were built both by the town corporation ...
The Cable Company (earlier, Wolfinger Organ Company, Chicago Cottage Organ Company; sometimes called by the name of its subsidiary, The Cable Piano Company) was an American manufacturer and distributor of pianos and reed organs that operated independently from 1880 to 1936.
The Organist Entertains was a long-running music programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2.The 30 minute programme focused on the organ in its many guises, and played recordings and live broadcasts of theatre organs, pipe organs and electronic organs around the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
Hope-Jones 16 ft open wood pipes prior to removal from All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood. Robert Hope-Jones (9 February 1859 – 13 September 1914) was an English musician who is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century.
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA). Chamber organ, ca. 1750, Germany. [36] 1/4 comma meantone. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN). Anonymous, 18th or perhaps late 17th century. A 5-stop organ originally from Italy, restored by Martin Pasi of Pasi Organ Builders (Roy, WA) and Robert Wech of Wech Orgelbau (Buchloe, Germany)
Reading Town Hall organ, built by Willis in 1864, extended in 1882 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1999 St Bees Priory organ, the last major instrument to be personally supervised by "Father" Henry Willis, 1899. Henry Willis & Sons is a British firm of pipe organ builders founded in 1845. Although most of their installations have been in ...