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    Nov 14, 2019 3 minutes

    Salisbury cathedral sounding good again

    Salisbury Cathedral’s ‘Father’ Henry Willis organ arrives back this month after a £700,000 restoration that involved cleaning its 4,000 pipes and repairing the mechanics, bellows and reservoir. Designed for the cathedral in 1877 – the £3,500 cost was gifted by local patron Miss Chafyn Grove – the organ replaced an older instrument, parts of which are still in use at St Thomas’s church in the city.

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