Martin
A side interest of some of us is a small choir which meets in the workshop on Wednesday evenings. Many musical styles have been performed, but the most popular with the singers is the English sixteenth century repertoire. Music is normally a capella, since the organs being built or restored are almost never in a fit state for accompaniment.

When the opportunity arises, we like to sing at the places we have been working at. Last year we restored a Hill organ in the church of San Francesco, Pistoia, Italy, and we sang a concert in the style of a choral evensong for over one hundred participants of an organ course. The music was chosen to fit with the period of the organ.  Having examined some sixteenth century Italian organs for the Tudor Organ project, we gave another concert in the church of the Badia, Arezzo. Accompanied by the wonderful sixteenth century organ we sang, from the contemporary choirstalls behind the tomb of Vasari, another evensong style concert beginning with Catholic alternatim, puritan psalms from Day's Psalter, Byrd's Great Service, and ending with a verse anthem by Smith of Durham at an unavoidably low pitch (about a = 440Hz).