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Organ restoration appeal a success

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http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/9089637.Organ_restoration_appeal_is_hailed_a_success/


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AN appeal to raise £40,000 to restore an historic church organ has been hailed a complete success.

The appeal for the pipe organ at St Peter's Church in Bromyard was launched in 2008 and so far more than £32,000 has been raised.

A fund-raising Desert Island Discs-style evening next week will take the total to more than £33,000 and David Kemp, the fund raising committee's chairman, said that this would be sufficient and that restoration work on the organ, which dates back to 1839, could now be carried out.

The appeal had been due to run until June 2012 but thanks to the success of the fund raising events held, including a 24-hour hymn playing marathon last month, the target has been reached a year early.

Mr Kemp, who is a music teacher at Queen Elizabeth Humanities College, said he was pleased the fund raising had been such a success.

He said the values that had driven him to get involved with the project were typical of the values taught at Queen Elizabeth Humanities College.

"It has led to other fund-raising initiatives for charity at the school including four Y11 students who recently raised £2,500 for Acorns by taking part in a freefall skydive," he said.

Mr Kemp, who completed the gruelling 24-hour hymn playing marathon, with sore wrists and a rendition of Widor's Toccata, said the final fund raiser for the Bromyard Pipe Organ Fund would be a Desert Island Discs evening at Number 1, Broad Street, Bromyard, on Wednesday June 22.

With the same format as the Radio show Mr Kemp will interview former Master of Choristers and organist at Hereford Cathedral Dr Roy Massey and play eight of his favourite records. The evening starts at 7pm for 7.30pm and tickets cost £10 and include a ploughman's.

He said the Desert Island Discs evenings had proved so popular that these will continue for the rest of the year and any further funds raised will be used to help with maintenance costs for the organ.

Eric
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