Paperback with full-colour cover, 168 pages, 84 illustrations. Format: 170 x 240 mm.   Fanfare for and Organ-Builder Essays presented to Noel Mander to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his commencement in business as an organ-builder ‘It is with great pleasure that I commend this volume of essays in honour of Noel Mander. I ask that he will accept them as a token of the respect, affection and esteem that we all, writers and readers, have for him and his achievements.’ Christopher Dearnley, Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1968 to 1990 Foreword by Christopher Dearnley; A conversation with Noel Mander by Ian Bell; Noel Mander – some personal memories by Michael Gillingham; Things new and old: the work of N. P. Mander Ltd, 1945–1983 by Nicholas Thistlethwaite; Wren, Smith and the Box of Whistles story by Austin Niland; Attitudes to old organs in the British Isles – a short account by Stephen Bicknell; The sixteenth-century English organ repertoire, reviewed in the light of the Suffolk fragments by Christopher Kent; An Elliot organ in Boston, Massachusetts by Barbara Owen; The early chamber organs of Joseph William Walker by Nicholas Plumley; Retrospect: an extemporisation by B. B. Edmonds.   £21.95 ISBN 0 906894 24 7

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