We provide world-class practice instruments:
- Four grand pianos, including two Steinway Model B’s, two of the best in the University!
- A Milan Misina double-manual harpsichord, which is regularly used in concerts and professional recordings.
- Two organs: a small continuo instrument, and a much admired four-manual, mechanical-action Swiss organ.
- Provide pianos for all Music students.
College Organs
In 2002 we acquired a new four-manual mechanical-action organ, constructed by the outstanding Swiss firm, St-Martin. It was conceived as a versatile instrument, equally at home in Baroque, Romantic, and twentieth-century repertoire, and is widely acknowledged to be among the best instruments in Cambridge.
Top international soloists such as Guy Bovet and David Sanger have been impressed with the organ, calling it “marvellous”, “splendid”, and “spectacular” and it is in popular demand as a practice and teaching instrument among the great and the good.
- Bourdon 16
- Montre 8
- Flûte à cheminée 8
- Prestant 4
- Flageolet 2
- Fourniture IV-V (Extrait: 1 1/3)
- Bourdon 8
- Flûte à fuseaux 4
- Doublette 2
- Sesquialtera II (Extrait: 2 2/3)
- Mixture III (Extrait: 1 1/3)
- Cromorne 8
- Tremblant
- Flûte harmonique 8
- Gambe 8
- Voix céleste 8
- Flûte octaviante 4
- Octavin II (Extrait: 2)
- Hautbois 8
- Tremblant
- Basson 16
- Trompette 8
- Cornet V
- Accouplements: IV/I; III/I, II/I, III/II
- Soubasse 16
- Principal 8
- Bourdon 8
- Octave 4
- Basson 16 (Solo)
- Tirasses: IV/P, III/P, II/P, I/P
