Reginald New (April 1902, in Lewisham, Kent – 28 November 1958, in Beckenham, Ken[1]) was a popular UK theatre organist whose career spanned the 1920s through to the 1950s.
[2] On 28 November 1929 he made his first BBC radio broadcast from the Beaufort Cinema, Washwood Heath, Birmingham.
He often gave concerts on the Cheltenham Town Hall organ and broadcast from there on 8 December 1935.
[2] In August 1940 he was appointed organist of the Regal Cinema, Beckenham.
[2] The Compton organ from Washwood Heath was subsequently removed in 1937 and placed in the Abbey Road studios where it was recorded by Fats Waller.