To carry on the history of this organ—in 1661, we find Dallam repairing Harris's instrument at a cost of twenty-five pounds. Further repairs by the same maker took place in 1664 and 1665. In 1672, Renatus Harris (the grandson of the builder) repaired the organ; and in 1680 Preston of York was employed for the same purpose. Six years later, Harris was again called in, and promised for one hundred and fifty pounds that it should be "an extraordinary good instrument, the best old organ in England, and exceed the best organ in the University." This proposition, the very curious original of which is preserved in the British Museum, was carried into effect in 1690.[1]
In 1737, the organ was removed to the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury, where, more than a century afterwards, it was remodelled and greatly enlarged by Mr. Henry Willis.
But little of the original work now remains, except the diapasons and the prin-
- ↑ See Appendix V, VI.
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