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Goetze and Gwynn is an organ builder in England which has a specialism in restoring pre-Victorian British organs.
Dominic Gwynn started organ building with Hendrik ten Bruggencate in Northampton in 1976, before going into
partnership with Martin Goetze in 1980. Initially located in Northampton, the company relocated in 1985 to the Welbeck Estate near Worksop in north Nottinghamshire. A third partner, Edward Bennett, joined in 1985.
Martin Goetze died on 23 August 2015. The company continues to restore and produce organs, but according to its website its focus has shifted somewhat from the original directors' emphasis on re-creating the musical culture of the past.
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Dominic Gwynn started organ building with Hendrik ten Bruggencate in Northampton in 1976, before going into
partnership with Martin Goetze in 1980. Initially located in Northampton, the company relocated in 1985 to the Welbeck Estate near Worksop in north Nottinghamshire. A third partner, Edward Bennett, joined in 1985.
Martin Goetze died on 23 August 2015. The company continues to restore and produce organs, but according to its website its focus has shifted somewhat from the original directors' emphasis on re-creating the musical culture of the past.
Reconstructions
The company has produced organs in Tudor style based on the remains of two Tudor organ soundboards discovered in Suffolk. Two of these instruments are managed by theRoyal College of Organists
The Royal College of Organists (RCO) is a charity and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, with members worldwide. Its role is to promote and advance organ playing and choral music, and it offers music education, training and de ...
.
Restorations
Among the organs they have restored are: *Great Budworth ** The organ of St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth *London ** The organ ofSt Helen's Bishopsgate
St Helen's Bishopsgate is an Anglican church in London. It is located in Great St Helen's, off Bishopsgate.
It is the largest surviving parish church in the City of London. Several notable figures are buried there, and it contains more monumen ...
, which was damaged by a terrorist bomb attack in 1992
** Handel's instrument at St Lawrence Whitchurch (1994)
*Wrexham
**The Bevington organ at Erddig Hall
Erddig Hall ( cy, Neuadd Erddig; or simply Erddig; ) is a Grade-I listed National Trust property in Wrexham, Wales. Standing south of Wrexham city centre, it comprises a country house built during the 17th and 18th centuries amidst a 1,900 ac ...
(2016)
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