good morning and welcome to the dinery garden at canterbury cathedral on this morning of friday the 11th of february as we meet to say our morning prayers together be welcome wherever you are in the world we obviously are concentrating our prayers on situations like the military buildup between russia and the ukraine and the part that all world leaders can play in trying to resolve that tension which is making everyone so nervous at the moment so our prayers will undergird that kind of situation but at the same time we're thinking of our friends in madagascar still where such devastating damage has been done not only by earlier floods but also by the the cyclone which came onto to the villages there so you will have other areas of the world that you want to think of bring those to our prayers on this friday morning but here in england it is a lovely friday morning there's been a frost but already the sun is beginning to melt that frost and the sky is pure blue and we've come into a part of the garden which normally would be when spring has happened and things begin to grow a longer grass with flowers of all sorts growing up through the longer grasses at the moment of course there are just the stalks of last year although over by the wall beyond me there are bulbs coming up in the same way that they were yesterday in our prayers in the orchard we've come here because in our reflection we are out in the field so to speak and well we remember that when we come to the story in the first book of samuel that we shall read later on but for the moment we've come here and i'm i'm actually sitting on the swing the swing is a good place to sit and think uh it was actually given as i think partly an amusing gift by two friends of ours uh andy and nancy mead uh andy at the time was the wreck sharks in thomas fifth avenue but since then he's gone to live with nancy his wife in narragansett in rhode island and there they've always had a swing and i would go out and sit on the swing in nice weather and sit and think and he always said if you're moving gently you're thinking when you stop then generally you're writing and setting thoughts down well swings are good for that and we found a year or two after we started doing that that a gift came at christmas and it was this swing and on it they had had carved from the psalms oh lord arise into your resting place well swings are good resting places for thinking and our reflections are time for thinking so it's nice to be here on the swing this morning under the great ash tree and surrounded by the morning sunshine coming on this winter morning of the 11th of february but nevertheless a morning full of sunshine and blue sky we're going to begin our prayers so bring your own intentions as we do so o lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise visit us with your salvation and sustain us with your gracious spirit blessed are you creator of all to be praise and glory forever as your dawn renews the face of the earth bringing light and life to all creation may we rejoice in this day you have made as we wake refresh from the depths of sleep open our eyes to behold your presence and strengthen our hands to do your will that the world may rejoice and give you praise blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind as we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen i'm going to read the first of the three psalms for this 11th morning of the month it's psalm 56 have mercy on me oh god for they trample over me all day long they assault and oppress me my adversaries trample over me all the day long many are they that make proud war against me in the day of my fear i put my trust in you in god whose word i praise in god i trust and will not fear for what can flesh do to me all day long they wound me with words their every thought is to do me evil they stir up trouble they lie in weight marking my steps they seek my life shall they escape for all their wickedness in anger oh god cast the peoples down you have counted up my groaning put my tears into your bottle are they not written in your book then shall my enemies turn back on the day when i call upon you this i know for god is on my side in god whose word i praise in the lord whose word i praise in god i trust and will not fear what can flesh do to me to you o god will i fulfill my vows to you will i present my offering of thanks for you will deliver my soul from death and my feet from falling that i may walk before god in the light of the living that psalm as you will see and of course david's name is much associated with the sorter and the singing of the psalms but it fits what is happening to him very well in our reading today as we turn to the 20th chapter of the first book of samuel now the 20th chapter of the first book of samuel is a long story which i'm going to divide into three parts today tomorrow and on monday and as we do so we see another opening out of the tensions between the quartet that we've been talking about samuel king saul prince jonathan and of course david whom saul at first had a very embraced as his own and then when he saw the love that david had for jonathan and jonathan had for david he became jealous and when he saw how david could lead in battle and win battles for saul a servant of the king but he became jealous and bitter and in the same way um he of course had those dark moods it was why david had been fetched in originally if you remember to play his liar to lighten the dark moods but saul has gone far beyond that now but the power is with king saul and so we're going to read the first part of the story of chapter 20 and then we'll end at verse 17 and continue tomorrow and complete the story on monday then david fled from naos in rama and came and said before jonathan what have i done what is my guilt what is my sin before your father that he seeks my life and jonathan said to him far from it you shall not die behold my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me and why should my father hide this from me it is not so but david vowed again saying your father knows well that i have found favor in your eyes and he thinks do not let jonathan know this lest he be grieved but truly as the lord lives and as your soul lives there is but one step between me and death then jonathan said to david whatever you say i will do for you david said to jonathan behold tomorrow is the new moon and i should not fail to sit at table with the king but let me go that i may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening if your father misses me at all then say david earnestly asked leave of me to run to bethlehem his city for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan if the king says good it will be well with your servant but if he is angry then know that harm is determined by him therefore deal kindly with your servant for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the lord with you but if there is guilt in me kill me yourself for why should you bring me to your father and jonathan said far be it from you if i knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you would i not tell you then david said to jonathan who will tell me if your father answers you roughly jonathan said to david come let us go out into the field so they both went out into the field and jonathan said to david the lord the god of israel be witness when i have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow or the third day behold if he is well disposed towards david shall i not then send and disclose it to you but should it please my father to do you harm then the lord do so to jonathan and more also if i do not disclose it to you and send you away that you may go in safety maybe may the lord be with you as he has been with my father if if i am still alive show me the steadfast love of the lord that i may not die and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever when the lord cuts off every one of the enemies of david from the face of the earth and jonathan made a covenant with the house of david saying may the lord take vengeance on david's enemies and jonathan made david swear again by his love for him for jonathan loved david as his own soul you see why i say that that psalm could easily have been speaking of david's condition at that time for david is in mortal peril and fear of his life and in his heart he knows what danger he is in this is the beginning of a three-part tragedy and it's a very emotional one king saul has all the power and david senses that saul is bitterly jealous even to violence and his desire to kill him jonathan can't believe it but this will play itself out for the moment though let's think david is frightened and alone he has no idea who to trust nor where to go and so they've come out into the field all this is happening in secret and david is insisting on that because of course he knows that if saul knows where he is he'll have no chance of escape the might belongs to saul samuel with whom david had been staying clearly has not the power to withstand the armies of saul so it's good that saul doesn't know that david is with samuel so say david has left rama and come and then somehow got messaged to jonathan and their meeting in secret david only has jonathan that's all his own family are not uh in any way able to stand up to the might of saul though they are there in bethlehem and at times like this friends and family are what you want around you those you can trust and he has only jonathan but that's a risk since jonathan is the son of the king but it's a risk that he senses that he can take safely for the love that jonathan does him so out in the field and as we shall see tomorrow there are caves and stone heaps and everything else that david can hide in and jonathan tomorrow will think of a plan but for the moment let's just concentrate on this tragic tale which is hastening to a terrible conclusion power is with king saul loyalty is with jonathan but david has to trust that and at the moment vulnerability and loneliness and fear is with david the shepherd king as he will become is alone my heart i hope he had his liar with him that when he was far away from people in those three days waiting for news from jonathan which is being suggested he's at least got his shepherd's liar but maybe not maybe even that was to give away for david to have and vision well vision is with samuel and samuel will enter the story again but for the moment notice that vision is also with jonathan for jonathan doesn't just leave it there he senses that david is the one who will be king and those promises that they're giving and jonathan's saying when you come into that kind of power he's not absolutely explicit but he says when when this happens then be kind to my family and probably david hasn't a clue what all this means and he's rushing to say of course i will of course i will but jonathan is showing the kind of prophetic vision which samuel himself has shown here is the lord's anointed standing in front of prince jonathan who is the heir to the former anointed one who has failed the test and david is now surrounded by that fear but they make that covenant with each other we shall we shall go on tomorrow with this tragic tale but it has in it loyalty and love and honor it has in it the sense of having to put one's trust where one believes there is loyalty and love and honor and at the same time it has it the quality of vision massively shown by samuel who's not in this story today but here glimpsed like a light in jonathan himself who seems to be fast-seeing as they stand together in david's loneliness and jonathan's perplexity well now this is the day i'm going now to some dates this is the day uh february the 11th in the year 1858 when the little 14 year old shepherdess from a very poor family indeed in the town of lourdes in the foot of the pyrenees had a mystic vision as she was out gathering firewood with friends and in that mystic vision she saw the image she didn't say of the blessed virgin mary she talked about the image of the lady she saw they were from such a poor family and living in that area of france where she didn't even speak french she spoke in the the language of her people down there and was just beginning at her age she started learning french properly at the age of 13 but um when she began to to tell this tale it was mostly in her own vernacular and were talking about really an unknown place in the foothills of the pyrenees at that time and those mystic visions and we've seen that with simone vale and that kind of mysticism with so many but those mystic visions continued then between the 11th of february and the 16th of july so this becomes a feast day for parts of the church but we now know that that place where later in this story not today but in the days which followed in the ordinary cave and from the ordinary cave broke a stream of water which became more and more pure as the days went on and the visions that and the mystic vision that the little shepherd girl had continued and she was absolutely firm about them she never varied this and uh the the vision went on and as the as the the water flowed so people felt it was a healing stream and now you will know that lords is a large city and that large city has many hotels in it because it's a place where every year five million pilgrims from all denominations and none go in search of healing and encouragement and care i want to tell two stories about lords the first one is one told when i was the rector of tisbury in wiltshire and i'll come back to that name a bit later on but um as we think of that there's work going on over the walk here so you all hear that it's that it's a friday morning so we can expect that um it's outside the precincts um i wanted to tell a story about a little girl there i won't name names at all um but she had been desperately ill and was being looked after by her grandmother and her grandmother who was not of any great religious persuasion simply had this sense she must take the little girl two lords and the village collected so that that might happen and they went and they returned uh and i remember remember the grandmother coming to the rectory and standing on the stab and uh saying to me i brought you some water back from those and um i i asked how the little girl was and the the little girl was was was fine i mean i'm not telling a story of miraculous healing but what i am saying was when i looked into the grandmother's eyes who had been tired and almost at her wit's end in caring for her little granddaughter there was a new light and if you'd asked me did a healing take place it lures well certainly it did with the carer the grandmother who came back refreshed and the story went on from there and then i want to tell another story about lords because a few years ago um when we were staying in a a place near gmo uh in in uh southern france with the where the pyrenees are actually in sight uh some distance away but on clear mornings you can see them uh we decided to go to lords fletcher had never been to lawrence and was keen to see it and we went through a beautiful countryside with the the friend with whom we were staying and uh we began to approach laws with beautiful countryside around us and great mountains and and mountainscapes it was totally beautiful and we got there now i am more used and our friend was more used to huge pilgrim sites which have a long history i remember going to manresa in to find the cave of sint uh ignatius lorena and finding it covered with enormous basilicas and everything else and lots of people there but not finding the atmosphere that i was expecting from the description of the cave and that sort of atmosphere was being disturbed by what had been done to it to the risk to receive so many and to honor it but at the same time i found that i had to walk up river and find a cave just like the one that ignatius would have done if i wanted to imagine that pastoral scene or that loneliness of ignatius uh in in monresa well um at the same time uh we told a story about simone vale going to assisi and i know that the place very well but i have very often walked outside assisi to find the kind of scenes the pastoral scenes that francis would have known and she had gone down to the church of santa maria de la angeli and found that huge church but inside the little church of the port ciuncula and when you enter that you feel you're near to francis you can imagine if you explore now i'm saying all this because when we got to lords what we found was a busy huge busy city with all kinds of things being sold to the pilgrims as we walked down through the streets and fletcher who's very much happier out in the field was saying i didn't expect it to be like this at all and we got down to the grotto itself and those of you who have been there well no it's it's teeming with people and a huge basilica built on the top there which can can hold thousands of people and he was really disappointed and he went and found a spot on the river across the other side as far as i remember from the and sat down on the grass and instantly someone shouted across you can't sit there and i could see him just folding up and not wanting to be there and i was so sad because uh there there would have been places nearby which which gave that vision of what it had been like when that little shepherdess first found the cave out in the field and at the same time a little boy was playing as a family had a picnic and he was in the waters there and again a guard said don't sorry your son can't play there so rules and regulations and loads of people and all of that and and that's how things are in sites even like this because of safety rules for the people and the way of encouraging now that doesn't stop thousands of people who've been taken there with a specific purpose for the the healing the encouragement and all the magnificent ministry which goes on there but uh two days later we found ourselves walking in a place which took us up to the mountain where the traditional cave this is in provence um the cave where mary magdalene was meant to have sheltered and uh so um we went through the woods and walked up and there there's a simplicity and dominican monks quietly there and the candles being lit and the only sound you hear when there's not a mass being said is the trickling of water and in within the cave and you can walk higher and see landscapes and suddenly uh fletcher was breathing again and saying actually this to me feels like and felt like the grotto felt like man raiser felt like a cc but one has to to imagine these things you have to go and find the place and use your spiritual imagination but for others of course they've come for the formality of what's going on there as a pilgrim site and the resources to look after the sick and the resources for people to stay actually make it quite unlike what would have been historically when anything of that sort happened but you can still imagine it you can still find it if you if you look and it's for us to use our physical and mental and spiritual resources to tap ourselves in to the situation which will help us best of all it's like the swing here this is a place for reflection i don't say the noise has stopped because start up again immediately i'm sure but at the moment this is peaceful quiet on a friday morning but it's a working day and there's the noise of heavy machinery outside on the road so we give thanks for the healing quality of that ministry and lord and lord and pray for that holy place and all who have found such benefit there uh in so many different ways but also the benefit of the story of the little shepherd the little shepherdess going out to gather sticks her family lived in a one-room basement and she told her story in the simple vernacular but people believed it and they came out to share her vision and that mystic vision caused streams of healing to come out from the rock and it's been so ever since for so many of so many different persuasions i wanted also to say because this is david the musician and i said um that i hope he had his liar with him and at the basis of all the psalms but today is the day when father that's in inverted commas he's not a priest but he's always called father willis and henry willis was an organ builder and he died on the 11th of february 1901 day by day we and you glory in the organ music of this hugely restored and enlarged grand organ of canterbury cathedral which has been restored and even made better and bigger in the original father henry willis our specifications that are there and the lyrical stops which we now hear played a great joy when we were doing all this we had an electronic instrument because the organ was being taken apart and pipes taken away new pipes created to make those lovely sounds and uh it was just before the pandemic of course that the organ was finished and we had demonstrations just for a while and people gloried it and then everything stopped of course but now day by day you can hear the beautiful sounds of that henry willis organ and uh it was the sort of image that that the our former organist david flood wanted the organ restored and thank god he was there to to play it demonstrated when it was finished and also had a little bit of time to enjoy music which was accompanying the club so it was in 1978 that i first put my hands on kante because it logan and it was at the time not this organ but the previous one so i played that henry willis organ for two weeks then the organ came down and was away for over a year and it was in october 1979 that this organ was complete and i was the first person to play that so it's almost it's 39 years since i've been playing this album and getting to know it really really well over that time i've recouped it on it i've played recitals on it we've seen it to the grand occasions i played for the visit of pope john paul all those years ago i've done enthronements and since that time of course i became the director of the music research of the choir as well so it's my colleagues who've been playing most of the of course like all these things as it gets older there are various creaky joints that show and there is you can have find sometimes that it's not in tune it's quite hard to keep it in tune because it doesn't respond very well to when the temperature changes so we do have notes that are missing us and you can't tell from one day to the next that that note is going to be there or not the keys themselves are very worn the pedals are very worn so sometimes you'll find yourself playing two pedal notes when you only really wanted to play one but the audience doesn't know that and it's just the fact that it's so warm that you can actually catch two pebs at once sometimes you find yourself with the the swell box which makes the sound go softer and louder sometimes it goes backwards completely upside down and it has been known to give up the ghost completely both during a service and during the concert so the time has come to give the organ some tlc [Music] so here we are standing in the middle of the organ is the moment this is the section of the organ called the great organ which is the kind of heart of the sound of the organ it speaks out through the arch into the choir behind me and the pipes as you see them now are in themselves no problem they still sound beautiful it's the works underneath them we've got problems with and these pipes here with the ties on are some of our oldest and most cherished pipes those were made by a man called samuel greene in the early 17th century and we keep them and they're going to be reused again and they form one of the main sounds in the center of the organ and they always have done ever since they were first put in everything we have here is going to be reused in some way or another it may be put into a different function may be put into a different department of the organ but it's going to be reused so everything is being if you like recycled [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] but now of course in the um uh we're now in the time of our our director of music david newsham whom you got used to and also jamie rogers our organist and adrian bautry the three who play the organ and make beautiful sounds now i wanted to just chart the work very quickly of henry willis father willis and also to say how important that was and has been in my own life and ministry in music he at first um was sub organist of st paul's cathedral and learned from thomas atwood a composer and organist himself but in 1835 as a a young man he was articles to an organ builder and called john gray for seven years and then three years in cheltenham working for a reed instrument maker wardle evans and it was while he was there that he met samuel sebastian wesley the great uh should we say uh he was one of the wesley family of course uh the grandson of charles wesley but he was the the great energy behind the recovery of proper church music in cathedrals especially and parish churches in the 19th century and that teaming of henry willis and samuel sebastian was the first of all built rebuilt the organ at gloucester cathedral in 1847 and that rebuilding of that organ henry willis always said that was my stepping stone to fame 1851 he created the huge organ for the great exhibition in the crystal palace 70 speaking stops and many innovations such as piston buttons if we start talking organ language i'll get it all wrong and it's very complicated indeed once you start talking to an organ builder so i'm not going to give many technical words today but it was huge and after the exhibition it was removed made smaller and rebuilt by henry willis in winchester cathedral and with the collaboration of samuel sebastian wesley a huge organ was then built in 1855 for st george's hall in liverpool which had a hundred speaking stops that's the last bit of technical information i'll use but from then on the kind of organs that he was building with that romantic victorian sound and with pipes which could represent the playing of so many lyrical musical instruments but with a depth that would give a real grounding to loud and triumphant things as well he built the organ at alexandra palace at the royal albert hall at st paul's cathedral at canterbury cathedral at carlisle at coventry at durham at exeter at hereford at lincoln at st david's at salisbury at churro at wells and george's hall at windsor castle an organ which was destroyed by the fire in 1992 i could name so many more because in in effect he spent the whole of his life creating these beautiful instruments for people not just in england to me the sound of a henry willis organ is unmistakable and for so much of my ordained life the music has been accompanied by a father willis organ no family relationship i assure you salisbury cathedral when i was working there as a minor cannon that organ is one of the finest of the the henry willis organs i then went to erect rotisserie and found that a lovely much smaller instrument but a lovely father willis organ which was beautifully vague and since that time it's been perfectly restored with new stops added and then that took me through the uh nine almost ten years at tisbury and then sherman not um just for those five years not a henry willis organ but hereford cathedral yes a magnificent one and uh the the pride of the organists uh which had been restored by the generosity of the bulma uh side cider firm nearby great firm in in hereford so there the sounds of the willis organ again and then i come here and although at that stage when i came the organ had been uh had lost many of its original willy stops but now it's all been restored and rebuilt and added to and those sounds are with me again just wanted to say one other thing about the woodis organ sound i said the other day when we were talking about uh hymn tunes and the way in which um era de san ki gave tunes that i woke in the guest house at zanzibar cathedral where i was staying on my first morning was a sunday morning and i was going to preach in the cathedral afterwards and i woke to the sound of very early mornings singing with the organ of a hymn beneath the cross of jesus cyphen would take my stand and when i got into the build and i thought this this organ sounds untrue enough it was a henry willis organ which he had built in zanzibar cathedral and i'm told it's now been restored as so many of them have so i give great thanks on this day when we think of the loneliness and sadness and fear of david but of his musicianship and his ability to play the liar and give music and have his name associated with the psalms whether they're sad ones joyful ones community ones seasonal harvest ones all of those when we think of david the musician i think of the lovely sounds that father henry willis was was uh able to give the church and his firm still keeps going there were after him uh his his his sons and grandsons and there were in effect for henry willis is going through the century but we're remembering the founder of them all who's generally known as father willis well that's uh a nice thought on this day when we're praying so full of musical thanksgiving on the 11th of february and also prayers for places of healing and encouragement like lords but also places throughout the world where you know people are actually um wanting that kind of healing and encouragement we're praying today in the anglican communion for the diocese of karnataka central in the united church of south india and for the church of in this diocese of sin philip northland park in margate and for stuart gay in his ministry there and helen rogers the reader there and we will also pray of course for justin our archbishop and for rose bishop of dover and for emma bishop atlantis so let's say the prayer for this week and bring your own intentions and your own prayers and concerns wherever you are to this prayer oh god you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright grant us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers and carry us through all temptations through jesus christ our lord amen so each in our own language across the world the prayer our savior taught us our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen moment of reflection now in our prayers [Music] [Applause] hmm [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] i'd include in our prayers this morning the holy place of san maxima uh santa boom which is the a town from which we normally go up to the grotto the cave of mary magdalene um through the woods there and that we find to be a very holy place but also you can climb right to the top to sampino and look out over provence in every direction it's quite a climb but it's worth every climb is is worth it and to climb up to a holy place and find water there to refresh oneself before going in it's marvellous and then to think we can even go higher and then come back down and be refreshed again is even better the peace of god which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of god and of his son jesus christ our lord and the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for today and always amen well you've been very quiet this morning i might all thought you were the tea cozy really but i think you're having a pensive morning of your own thoughts aren't you and you've not been teased by the robin he's always out to get you if he's around but i think he must be somewhere else this morning welcome to canterbury cathedral where we just finished installing the north triphorium organ presently the south triforium is being built in the workshop i'm looking out down under the high altar at the east end here just to give you a bit of context as to where we are in the building there's the north aisle behind the high altar heading up to the east and so we're standing looking east at the moment and if i just pan around past the altar there we're now about to start looking south and we come across the transept great organ and this part of the organs being designed to support the singing in this eastern end of the building but it also works really well downstairs in the choir here we have a complete chorus um consisting of a board on at the back in front of that is a slotted diaphasin and then a principal a 12 15 a four rank mixture and then an eight foot pizzon in the front here we're now kind of looking westwards along the triforium i'll take you on a bit of a journey here i'm heading further west and we have the reservoir for the transept great organ you'll see the original henry willison sons bella's weights have been reused but cleaned up and spread and we have the base of the transept great diapers and conveyed off there and the base of the board and there this is all because of the roof line here uh we have to have the bases at one end and then in the sides here along we have the choir organ and we can't stand these bases up so we have the bottom six of the choir board on lying down and the bottom four of the dulciana also lying down and in front of that is the choir organ go around and have a bit of a closer look so presently looking eastward towards the transept great now turning to look south uh where the choir organ is and here we have a complete chorus with a new trumpet and their father willis cornell di besetto at the front and we've reused some of the manda pipe work in this division this chimney flute here is the old manda four foot chimney flute re-voiced and that has the original father with us one to 12 stop wooden base we also have the manda nazar block flute and tears that's been reused here but other than that all of this division is new so starting at the back here we have a wooden board on an autumn diaphasin a dulciana a principal chimney flute a new four foot wooden stocked flute in front of that is the 15th then the nazar which has a canister stock base and then the two foot block flute tears and then a new three round mixture and then the trumpet and corner devastator heading even further west now we have our regulating keyboard up here which is a wireless keyboard with a laptop touchscreen to control the organ uh we just plug that into the mains and we can put that anywhere we like up here you also have the console downstairs in the choir with all the switches on which many of you will have seen before there we have the double open wood lying down but before that we have the solo organ and so again we're looking south here and we're directly above where the choir would be singing in the stalls downstairs in the choir um so with the shutters at the front there but then we have right at the very front the eight foot off the clyde orchestral trumpet and then the uh the very lovely french horn and then there's a passage board between those and then we turn to the left there we have a clarinet an orchestral orbor a coron glare and then we have the two foot flute four foot flute and then a couple of gaps because the strings aren't here yet and then an eight foot flute so we'll have a look the other way and give you a bit more detail on those so that's the clarinet on the left with the wide slots and then the orchestral all bore with a very narrow slot and tops looking at the back here there's the the harmonic flutes and if we look up to the sky you can see how this box has been built into the roof line of the cathedral uh inscribed very nicely around so there's no gaps so heading further west now uh we've got the double open wood this was made in our workshop it's the first double open wood we've made since the colston hall in bristol now we've got a few standing up there mited over that won't fit but the majority of them the big ones are lying down here and many people have commented on the use of plywood for the bottom 24 knots of the 32 foot octave so that's the 32 foot 16 foot octaves are made in plywood and the boards were glued together to get the correct thickness and then put together in sections and these give very very good notes indeed and there'd be no hesitation to make pipes of this size in plywood again in the future of course further up the scale from eight foot c which we'll come to in a moment and they're made of poplar and that's this section here and round into the octave wood section there so we're now looking west down onto the screen where the console used to be and down into the choir we'll continue on along to the business end of these 32s on the chest here with all the big ones lying down coming around the corner to the wind system for these and then to give you more context of just exactly where we are as we go into this little gallery here we're looking westwards into the nave i hope that's given you all a bit of a flavor as to where this part of the organ in canterbury and uh when we get the other side in i might come back again and give you a bit of a tour around of that but in the meantime i'll head back to the middle of the north triphorium organ and i will leave you there you