Peter Collins (organ builder)

Peter Collins (1941 – 24 October 2015) was an English pipe organ builder based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Collins served his apprenticeship with Bishops of London, but became disillusioned with the conservatism of English organ building, so left for further training with Rieger, in Austria.

The company entered a creditors voluntary liquidation on 20 January 2017, leaving a number of unfinished projects including the relocation of the Turner Sims organ to Orford, which was completed in 2019.

[5] Examples are to be found in the UK including Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh;[6][7] St Peter Mancroft, Norwich;[8][9] Orford parish church[10] (formerly at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton)[11]), and Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge.

[14] Peter Hurford, who founded the IOF while he was organist of St Albans Cathedral, played commissioning recitals on a number of Collins organs, and also recorded on some of them.

Organ in St Peter Mancroft of 1984