Editing Llandaff Cathedral (section)

=== Choirs ===
For many years, the cathedral had the traditional Anglican [[choir]] of boys and men, and more recently the Girl Choristers. The boys and girls are educated at [[the Cathedral School, Llandaff|the Cathedral School]], the only dedicated choir school in the Church in Wales, .<ref name=school>{{cite web|url=http://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/music.htm |title=Music at Llandaff Cathedral |publisher=Llandaff Cathedral |access-date=9 April 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322102446/http://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/music.htm |archive-date=22 March 2007 }}</ref>

The Cathedral Choir consists of boys and alto, tenor and bass parts, and sing on Sundays at the Choral Eucharist and at Choral Evensong. The full choir also sings on Thursdays for [[Evensong]], with the boys singing alone on Tuesdays and the lower voices on Fridays. The Girl Choristers and Schola Cantorum keep the choral tradition going through the week, with full [[SATB]] services for Evensong on Mondays and Wednesdays, directed by the Master of Choristers of the Cathedral School.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Cathedral School Girl Choristers|url=http://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/music-2/the-girl-choristers/|access-date=2020-09-23|website=llandaffcathedral.org.uk}}</ref> The Girl Choristers occasionally sing with the Cathedral Choir, and have sung at large services, including a National Service of Remembrance, on Remembrance Sunday in 2018.

In addition, the parish choir sings at the weekly Parish [[Eucharist]], and is a mixed choir of boys, girls, men and women.<ref name="school" /> The cathedral has a [[ring of bells|ring]] of twelve bells (with an additional "flat sixth", to make thirteen in total) hung for [[change-ringing]], located in the Jasper tower. The current bells were installed in 1992, replacing a previous ring of ten.<ref name="CathedralHistory" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cccbr.org.uk/dove/detail.php?searchString=llandaff&numPerPage=10&searchAmount=%3D&searchMetric=cwt&sortBy=Place&sortDir=Asc&DoveID=LLANDAFF|title=Dove details: Llandaff Cath, Metropolitical, and Parish Ch of SS Peter & Paul|work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers|publisher=[[Central Council for Church Bell Ringers]]|date=27 August 2007|access-date=10 October 2007}}</ref>{{efn|Browne Willis' 1719 account of the structure described a long-ruined tower situated southwest of the cathedral, which held a large bell known as St Peter's bell. It was removed by [[Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford|Jasper]] and taken to [[Exeter]], where it was exchanged for five smaller bells which were then hung in the Jasper tower.{{sfn|Willis|1719|p=3}} The bell was taken to [[Exeter Cathedral]] circa 1484.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/saturdaymagazin02educgoog|quote=llandaff cathedral.|title=Llandaff Cathedral|date=27 September 1834|journal=The Saturday Magazine|page=[https://archive.org/details/saturdaymagazin02educgoog/page/n125 115]|access-date=8 April 2016}}</ref>}} Only one other church in Wales has a ring of twelve bells; the cathedral is the only church in Cardiff with a set of twelve bells.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-252104821/good-chimes-rachel-conner-went-to-llandaff-cathedral|title=Good Chimes|author=Conner, Rachel|work=South Wales Echo|date=22 March 2011|access-date=|url-access=|via=|archive-date=8 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808093435/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-252104821/good-chimes-rachel-conner-went-to-llandaff-cathedral|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In December 2013, five days before Christmas, the cathedral chapter announced that all salaried adult members of the choir (altos, tenors and basses) were being made redundant, along with the assistant organist. The cathedral was in the midst of a financial crisis, and the chapter intended to save £45,000 a year by taking these measures.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25460945|title=BBC News announcement of redundancies at Llandaff Cathedral|work=BBC News|date=20 December 2013|access-date=21 December 2013}}</ref>