
I always enjoy my organ consulting adventures in Ireland. This time it was a two-day stay in Belfast (March 26 & 27), surveying and then reporting on the large organ in the Whitla Hall at Queen’s University. The 1905 magnum opus of William Andrews of Bradford (who? I hear you ask), it was electrified by John Compton in 1949-50 and thoroughly modernised by Hill, Norman & Beard in 1969. It now needs a complete refurbishment, following which it deserves to regain its place as one of Belfast’s finest instruments.