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Specialist artists, Robert Woodland MBE and Debra Miller of The Upright Gilders
1st September 2023
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Pipes fit for a Queen as organ’s golden years return

More than 160 years ago, they made their glittering debut during a right royal performance attended by Queen Victoria. Now the magnificent decorative pipes of Leeds Town Hall’s stunning organ are being restored to their former glory as part of a once in a lifetime renewal project. Specialist artists Robert Woodland MBE and Debra…
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Leeds-Town-hall-Organ-Recital
16th December 2022
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Musical memento is a pipe dream come true this Christmas

It could well be Leeds’s quirkiest Christmas gift idea and the perfect present for the music-lover who has everything. Leeds Town Hall has announced it will be giving people the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a permanent part of the city’s musical history by adopting one of their historic organ’s newly-refurbished pipes. The pipe project…
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Leeds Town Hall's magnificent Victoria Hall
26th November 2021
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Key moment as historic Leeds Town Hall organ pipes down for major revamp

Expert engineers have literally been pulling out all the stops this week as work to secure the future of Leeds Town Hall’s historic organ finally started. The once-in-a-lifetime project, which technicians say is among the biggest the country has ever seen, will see the huge instrument carefully deconstructed and then rebuilt and reconfigured, 163…
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