AFTER 40 years of wonderful music the North Cornwall Organ & Keyboard Society has been through many changes not only in name, writes John Ellacott, secretary.

Mr Bill Stone and Mr Ronald Uglow was my first contact with the plans to form a club outside the then house meetings at Roydon Road.

A small advert was put into the Cornish & Devon to discuss the funding of this club, mainly sparked off by a Yamaha organ demonstration held in the Drill Hall by C H Yardley & Co, where my first steps to 40 years as secretary could have been the words from Ronald Uglow: "I did not know you were into organ music."

After the first gathering of 30 local people of the town interested in organ music in the same room as we now use in the Eagle House Hotel, on Tuesday, February 29, 1972 (being a Leap Year it could also be our 10th birthday), it was decided to form 'The North Cornwall Hammond Organ Society.

North Cornwall, and not Launceston, in our name was used so we could cover the surrounding 20 mile area and many members still make a round trip of 60 miles or more to our concerts.

Hammond was used as a lot of demonstration concerts could be put on by that organ company in a lot of towns around the country.

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