Piano and Organ

The School possesses a good number of upright pianos and a particularly fine grand. The Music Department has a team of six piano teachers, who between them are responsible for a total of over one hundred pupils during the course of a week. There are also opportunities for learning the organ and the School possesses a large three manual Viscount electronic organ, situated in the Roald Dahl Studio, and a small one manual pipe organ in the school Chapel. The organ in the Cathedral is also used for teaching if the others are not available and playing there is a very valuable experience for the pupils as they gain a feeling for playing in a larger acoustic. At the moment, this organ is an electronic as the pipe organ was struck by lightning and is now not playable but a new pipe organ, to be built by Nicholson's of Malvern, is due to be installed in the Cathedral in April 2010. The School's student organists are given every opportunity to play for services and frequently do so.