David Wood

This handsome picture, featuring organist Jonathan Scott and organ builder David Wood, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Marcussen organ in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Centrepiece of the hall's 2,400 seat auditorium, the organ was built in 1996, as a symphonic concert instrument with 76 stops and a battery of trompettes en chamade. It was the largest of its kind to be installed in Britain for almost a century – and it has been in the care of Wood Organ Builders since then. It weighs...

Anna Lapwood with David Wood and Michael Leadbeater. It was a great pleasure to tune the organ for Anna Lapwood's concert in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, at the end of May. As a Hallé Featured Artist, she performed the Poulenc Organ Concerto and Kristina Arakelyan 's Toccata for Organ and Orchestra under the baton of Emilia Hoving. Chatting to her before the concert, she expressed her admiration for the wonderful instrument by Marcussen, which has been in our care since it was built. It...

Our most recent installation is of a rare French organ in St Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. This little gem of an instrument was built in 1922 by Le Mintier & Gloton, notable pipe organ builders in Nantes and successors to Louis Debiere. It has one manual and no pedals. The Orgue de Choeur was acquired from a French convent by a church in Yeadon where, after a period of uncertainty about its future, it was slated for refurbishment and relocation. The instrument is...