Peter Collins (1941 – 24 October 2015) was an
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pipe organ builder based in
Melton Mowbray
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,
Leicestershire. He specialised in
tracker action organs. Collins was an advocate of
computer-aided design, using it to produce compact instruments and to control material costs.
Collins founded his company in 1964. Prior to that, he worked in another established organ building firm. He built organs varying in size from one stop to over 50 stops. The company entered a
creditors voluntary liquidation on 20 January 2017.
Organs in the UK
Examples are to be found in the UK including
Greyfriars Kirk
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,
Edinburgh
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;
St Peter Mancroft
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,
Norwich
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;
Orford parish church (formerly at the
Turner Sims Concert Hall,
Southampton
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)), and
Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge. His largest organ was built for
St David's Hall, Cardiff (subsequently rebuilt in part by
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).
A notable commission was for the
St Albans International Organ Festival
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(IOF), with which Collins was associated for some time; the IOF organ (sited in St Saviour's church) was built in 1989 in the style of
Andreas Silbermann
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(1678–1734).
Peter Hurford, who founded the IOF while he was organist of
St Albans Cathedral
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, played commissioning recitals on a number of Collins organs, and also recorded on some of them.
Organs in other countries
Peter Collins's organs are found in a number of other countries, including
Australia,
France
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, Germany (Magdalenenkirche
Bayreuth);
Norway
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,
Korea
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, Sweden (a controversial collaboration with digital organ builders
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in Trönö),
The Parish Church of Trono, Trono, Sweden
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References
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British pipe organ builders
Manufacturing companies established in 1964
People from Melton Mowbray