New Organs, Restorations & Quality Maintenance

Stephen Cooke Organs

About Us

Workshop Phone (24hr answerphone) 01373 822204

 

The firm began working in a converted mill building in Bratton, Wiltshire.  Ten successful years later, we purchased a new and very much larger industrial unit on the outskirts of Westbury.  The unit boasts a large full-height working area enabling instruments to be erected fully in the workshop.  Underfloor dust extraction ensures the most pleasant and clean environment possible (for organs, as well as for us) and the many industrial tools are arrayed to give maximum working room.  There are separate offices, a voicing room and a large area for storage of redundant organs, pipework, timber, leather, felt and components.  Visitors are welcome by appointment.  Our interesting restoration/rebuilding of a 3 manual Bevington may be seen in the town centre church, where Stephen himself is the director of music and will be very glad to show his ongoing work to you.

Most of our work involves the overhaul and restoration of smaller parish instruments, which we do with a diligence and care we feel is hard to match.  Our care and attention extends not just to the organ as a machine, but more importantly to the organ as a musical instrument and (more often than not) a tool of worship; any recommendations we make are based on an improvement to any or all of these roles.  You will see from the Services page a couple of examples of where we have been able to enhance the musical life of churches of all denominations by ensuring we leave them with the best possible tools to make their worship as perfect as possible.

Although smaller 1-2 manual instruments form the basis of our work, we are more than able and properly equipped to take on larger 3 and 4 manual contracts with the same diligence, care and attention to detail.

Stephen Cooke Organs