Norman and Beard were a

pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...

manufacturer based in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

from 1887 to 1916.

History

The origins of the company are from a business founded in Diss in 1870 by Ernest William Norman (1851–1927). In 1876 he moved to

where he went into partnership with his brother, Herbert John Norman (1861–1936). In 1887 they went into partnership with George A. Wales Beard, and the company was formed. In 1896 the company opened a second office in London. They worked closely with Robert Hope-Jones and held the patents on many of his developments, including electro-pneumatic action. The company merged with William Hill & Sons of London in 1916, and became William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd.

Organs

* St. John's Church, Bangalore 1895 *

Norwich Cathedral Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Norwich and the mother church of the dioc ...

1899 Retrieved 6 October 2011 (NPOR N06483) * Llandaff Cathedral 1900 (NPOR N11801) *Duke's Hall,

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

1900 (NPOR D07229) *St Mary's Church, Oldswinford 1901 (NPOR N03681) * Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Lowestoft 1902 (wind blown, three manual organ of 1,152 pipes, still in a pristine extant condition) *St Mary’s Church, Rougham, Suffolk 1900 (NPOR H00690) *

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, Albert Long Hall, Istanbul 1903 (NPOR H00690) *Beckenham Baptist Church,

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1903 (NPOR N01278) *Nairn Old Parish Church,

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1903 (NPOR R00423) *All Souls Church,

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* Leeds Cathedral 1904 *

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1905 (NPOR N07470) * St Stephen's, Gloucester Road 1905 * St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, Berkshire 1905 * Town Hall, Wellington New Zealand 1906 *St. Mary the Virgin, Nonington, Kent 1906 (NPOR D04898) *Parish Church of Kilmun, Argyll & Bute, 1906 (water-powered) *Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand 1907-1912 *Bethlehem Welsh Independent Chapel, Rhosllanerchrugog, 1908 *All Saints' Church, Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire. 1908 *Great Hall,

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

1908 (NPOR N07270) *

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Chapel 1908 (NPOR D01086) *Hope Chapel, Merthyr Tydfil 1909 Organ No.996 (NPOR K01201) *

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...

1909 (NPOR N05206) *All Saints' Church, Binfield, Berkshire. 1910 (NPOR D01111) *St Mary the Virgin, South Elmsall, West Yorkshire. 1910 (NPOR K01511) *St. Chads, Shrewsbury, Shropshire 1904 *St. Michael's Church,

Aylsham Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea ...

, Norfolk, 1911 *St. Michael & All Angels Church, Wilmington, Kent 1912 (NPOR N08477) * The Andaz, Temple 1912 (London) *St.Stephen's Church, Cheltenham. 1912 * St Mary's Parish Church, Slough, Berkshire 1912 * St Mary's Church, Baldock 1913 *St Mary's Church, Reigate, Surrey, UK. 1911 * Walhampton School Chapel, Lymington, Hampshire, 1913 *Usher Hall,

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1914 (NPOR D07910) *St John the Evangelist, Bierley, Bradford 1916 (NPOR N02678) *Town Hall, Johannesburg 1916 *

Sherborne School Sherborne School is a full-boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 located beside Sherborne Abbey in the Dorset town of Sherborne. The school has been in continuous operation on the same site for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by Ald ...

Chapel, Sherborne, Dorset. 1926 * St John's Cathedral Brisbane Australia *Trinity Methodist Church, Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK. 1906. *Calvert Methodist Church, Hastings, Sussex, UK *Ocker Hill Methodist Church, West Midlands, UK, 1912 *City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa *United Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa *Chapel of St Peter, Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia. 1913 *Bethesda Chapel, Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales .1906 *Troqueer Parish Church, Dumfries * St. Christopher' Anglican Church, West Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 1963 * St. Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Glencoe, Highland. 1916 *NG Church Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga South Africa 1912 *St Michael's Church, Beaulieu sur mer, France 1903 * Lycée Saint-Vincent Providence de Rennes (Fr) Chapel, Rennes, 1896 *St Andrews Church, Trowse, Norwich, UK. 1913

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