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Full Accreditation Details for :
Bower and Company
Contact : Richard Bower
Wellgrove Organ Manufactory
Weston Longville
Norwich
Norfolk NR9 5JJ
Phone : 01603 881 189
Email : richardbower627@gmail.com Website : www.bowerorgans.co.uk
- Tuning & Maintenance : Yes
(last inspected 2021)
- Cleaning & Overhaul : Yes (last inspected 2021)
- Rebuilding : Yes (last inspected 2021)
- Historic Restoration : Yes
(last inspected 2021)
- New Organ Construction : Yes (last inspected 2021)
- Specialist Supplier :
Workshop Facilities : 6,000 sq ft conversion of 1950s building, usual woodworking machinery; CAD; voicing and pipe repair facilities.
Number of Staff : 2
Services Offered : Comprehensive range from tuning to new organs.
Examples of Work Inspected : Examples for inspection included a restored Holdich 1863 two manual tracker instrument which is written up comprehensively in 'Organ Building' Volume Eighteen. The New Organ was a continuo organ included as part of the IBO's exhibition at the Three Choirs Festival.
Inspectors Noted : Inspectors noted a mid-Victorian mechanical action organ which had been restored to an excellent standard with much attention to detail and as little intervention to historic material as possible.
Organ(s) available for Hire? : No