St Laurence’s Church in Ludlow currently houses two very different organs – their own fine Snetzler organ, and also the Wetheringsett organ, one of the two Tudor organs of the Early English Organ Project managed by the RCO. On Saturday 20th July this year organ enthusiasts have the chance to hear and learn more about both these instruments, with the opportunity to play them at the end of the day.

Peter Williams makes an interdisciplinary study of how we have the organ – in particular how we have it in church, in this article from the RCO Journal of 2011.  In a review of five publications relating to early Christianity and music, he discusses the interaction between Mediterranean technology, church authority, church practice, and function […]