John Norman

Professional advice and guidance on organs
their tone
their mechanism
their appearance
and their acoustical surroundings

John Norman BSc FIMIT FISOB
15 Baxendale
London N20 0EG England

020 8445 0801

john@jnorman.me.uk

Work in Progress

All Saints' Church
Fulham
London

Organ originally by Abraham Jordan 1732

Evaluation of proposals for restoration and relocation to a more open position

St Paul's Church
Oldham
Manchester

War Memorial organ

Condition report

Now Complete

Liverpool
Anglican
Cathedral

Five Manuals
Two consoles
152 stops
10,268 pipes
Largest organ in the UK
(plus one in the Lady Chapel)
Henry Willis & Sons 1910 & 1923-26

Conservation Management Plan

Edington Priory
Church
Wiltshire

New
26-stop
Two-manual organ
by Harrison & Harrison

Home of the
Edington Music Festival

St Mary
Finedon
Northamptonshire
3 manual - 21 stops
Bernard Smith 1704
for the Chapel Royal, Windsor
Installed Finedon by Shrider 1717
Rebuilt G.M.Holdich 1872
Restoration by
Holmes & Swift
Grant aided by the Heritage Lottery Fund & Church Builkdings Council
Historic organ certificate

See Choir & Organ Jan 2015 p36

For extracts from the 'Fit for a Queen' lecture at Birmingham University click on the 'Fit for a Queen' tab

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St Paul's Cathedral
London

Line Drawing
for use in publicity

The Christopher Wren case
of the Great organ


Based on an original sketch
by Herbert Norman .

Royal Academy of Music
Paper on
The Acoustics of Organs


Repeated at Winchester Cathedral

Institute of Acoustics seminar


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Norman & Beard
An Organbuilding Story

Lecture given at Colchester Town Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge

A shortened version of the lecture can be found on www.http://moothallorgan.co.uk/history-of-norman-beard-ltd/