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Location: St John, City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.stjohns-hydepark.com/
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On June 19th, with great fanfare (from the organ), we launched our organ restoration appeal "Save Betty". As a crowd of worthy supporters gathered our organ consultant John Rowntree gave us a potted history of the instrument and explained everything that needs doing to give Betty back her breath.
The highlight of the evening was seeing our musical director, Robert Greenhill, and organ Scholar, Nicky Miller, showing off Betty's various attributes, explaining to the uninitiated how organs work and all the technical details and differences that make Betty such a wonderful instrument.
The Associate Vicar, the Revd Dr Brutus Green, then took us through some of the future events and what we are doing to let everyone know what a fine machine we have, as well as how we're going to raise the funds to get Betty's breath back. The vicar, the Revd Steve Mason, offered some final thoughts before we all raised a glass to toast what we hope will be a bright future with a newly restored organ in time for her 150th birthday celebrations.
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