The Organ Club is a Worldwide Society for Friends of the Pipe Organ

Pipe organ

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 and was founded in 1926.

History

The organ club was founded at its inaugural meeting on 2 December 1926 at St. John's Presbytarian Church, Marlborough Road, London

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. The lead to the first general meeting which was held in 22 January 1927 at the Liberal Jewish Synangogue, St. John's Wood, London where Henry Willis III was elected the first president.

Presidents

• 1927 Henry Willis
• 1928 J. Martin White (died July 1928)
• 1929 - 1939 Donald Penrose
• 1940 - 1945 Dr. Harry Lowery
• 1946 - 1947 R.L. Cullum
• 1948 - 1949 Revd. Bernard B. Edmonds
• 1950 - 1951 H.W. de B. Peters
• 1952 - 1953 J.W. Higgs
• 1954 - 1955 K.I. McFarlane
• 1956 - 1957 J.R. Knott
• 1958 - 1959 C.J. Harvey
• 1960 - 1961 Brian Tant
• 1962 - 1963 Graham R. Bamber
• 1964 - 1965 A.N. Arnold
• 1966 - 1967 George F. Turfrey
• 1968 - 1969 B.S. Massey
• 1970 - 1971 Harcourt Macklin
• 1972 - 1973 Norman Taylor
• 1974 - 1976 Colin Goulden
• 1977 - 1978 John S. Smith
• 1979 - 1981 Colin Menzies
• 1982 - 1984 Jonathan Rennert
• 1985 - 1986 Philip Rufhead
• 1987 - 1988 Phiilp Weston
• 1989 - 1991 Lindsay Colquhoun
• 1992 - 1994 John Sayer
• 1995 - 1997 Adrian Mumford
• 1998 - 2000 Adrian Gunning
• 2001 - 2003 Colin Hamling
• 2004 - 2005 Eric Shepherd
• 2006 - 2008 Robin Coxon
• 2009 - 2011 David Wakefield
• 2011 - John Miley

Objectives

Membership is open to all who find enjoyment in the organ and its music. Benefits include -

• Bi-monthly receipt of The Organ Club Newsletter and thrice-yearly Journal - containing illustrated articles, news and reviews, as well as details of Club events.
• Monthly visits to organs of interest, over a wide geographical range. Detailed notes are prepared and issued for every meeting. Winter visits are often in London.
• Club 'tours', which take members on longer expeditions, once or twice in the year, to areas that are mines of organ interest, abroad as well as within the U.K.
• A pleasant sociality among people with a shared enthusiasm.
• The incidental pleasures of Club outings - fine buildings; stained glass and other church furnishings; towns, villages and landscapes seen en route.
• Opportunity, for those who play the organ, to try the instruments visited, after their demonstration in recital by the presiding organist.