BIOS Reporter – Volume 22, No.4 – October 1998

For over a century the ‘Snetzler’ organ in St. Margaret’s Church, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, has been an unhappy marriage of two quite disparate schools of organ building; a substantial amount of eighteenth century Snetzler pipework and case cohabiting uncomfortably with a late nineteenth century Wordsworth structure, chests and considerable tonal additions. All of the material is significant in its own right; the problems with the instrument arise from the attempt to incorporate one distinguished style within another…