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We are just putting the finishing touches on the complete restoration of the 4-manual organ at Sussex Gardens.  The organ has been completely re-winded, with the huge original main bellows removed and re-leathered, soundboards restored or remade, the organ electrics bought up to modern standards; voicing and fine tuning has occurred over the last few…

The rebuilding and remodelling of the organ at Wimborne Minster is well underway, and we are on track to complete the work early in 2022!  After removing the organ in February 2021, restoration work has commenced and final designs agreed for two magnificent new cases, and the 32’ pipework which will enhance the Trinity Chapel.…

We have completed the full pneumatic restoration of the Hunter WW I Memorial organ at Tollington Park in time for the opening recital in December 2020, 100 years (almost to the day!) since the organ was originally opened.  Part of the work included providing a new case which as well as helping the organ to…

Now that we have settled into our new workshop, we are building a new organ for St Edmund’s School, Canterbury: This will be the first new organ out of the Stourmouth workshop. Follow progress on the Projects page! We are also looking forward to being able to get back into churches, following the Coronavirus pandemic…

Incredibly, we have been in our new workshop for over a year now! There is a real ‘buzz’ as we workshop-restore component parts of organs we have been entrusted with, large and small: The workshop fills- up very quickly, and the advantages of all being under one roof now are far greater than any of…

We have started dismantling the organ at Wimborne Minster, and over the next year the organ will undergo a transformation, visually and aurally. With two stunning new cases, and manual divisions brought forwards in the organ chamber, the organ will project into the Minster in a way not heard for decades. We are also installing…

    (Click the photo for a larger image) In the latter half of 2019, Mander Organs had the pleasure of revisiting the firm’s organ in the Crallo Chapel of Coychurch Crematorium, Bridgend.The organ was built in 1970 for the new chapel and has since seen almost daily use.  After nearly fifty years, the organ has received a…

Our restoration work at the Guild Church of St Margaret Pattens in the City of London was completed just in time for the Christmas festivities. Both the victorian mechanical action to the manuals and the twentieth-century tubular pneumatic action to the pedals have been returned to full working order. The fifteen longest front pipes, which…

  Today, we moved to our new purpose-built workshop! After 37 years at Ash, we are all back in a single building, from workshop to machine shop, voicing shop to office, and of course, our kitchen!

Congratulations to Malcolm Hall, marking the 40th year of service to the company this year. There have been many changes in the organ building world (as elsewhere) since Malcolm’s first tuning job, but in that time Malcolm has amassed a huge amount of information on every instrument we look after, which enables us to provide…