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King’s College School, Cambridge rehomes pipe organ to expand music education

On Saturday 29 November, King's College School Director of Music, Mr Randle, and Mr Reid (Organ teacher) drove to Nottingham to dismantle a small two-manual pipe organ and load it into a van to bring back to the school.

Assisted by Mrs Dunlop (Music Department Administrator) and her husband, it was then unloaded into the Music Department and partly reassembled.  In the new year an organ builder will visit to begin the process of regulating the pipes and keyboards, and balancing the wind supply before tuning the instrument.

At King’s College School there are currently have eleven pupils learning the organ and the addition of this instrument will provide further opportunities and time for individual practice as well as being another useful teaching instrument, alongside the existing manual Klop pipe organ and the digital organ.  It will also provide opportunities for pupils to learn about organ design and construction.

9th October 2026