Editing York Minster (section)

==Organ==
The fire of 1829 destroyed the organ and the basis of the present organ dates from 1832, when ''Elliot and Hill'' constructed a new instrument. This organ was reconstructed in 1859 by William Hill and Sons. The case remained intact, but the organ was mechanically new, retaining the largest pipes of the former instrument.

In 1903, [[J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd|J. W. Walker and Sons]] built a new instrument in the same case. They retained several registers from the previous instrument.

Some work was undertaken in 1918 by [[Harrison & Harrison]] when the Tuba Mirabilis was added and the Great chorus revised. The same firm rebuilt this Walker-Harrison instrument in 1931 when a new console and electro-pneumatic action were added together with four new stops. The smaller solo tubas were enclosed in the solo box. In 1960, J. W. Walker & Sons restored the actions, lowered wind pressures and introduced mutations and higher chorus work in the spirit of the neo-classical movement. They cleaned the organ in 1982.

The fire of 1984 affected the organ but not irreparably; the damage hastened the time for a major restoration, which was begun in 1991 and finished two years later by Principal Pipe Organs of York, under the direction of their founder, Geoffrey Coffin, who had at one time been assistant organist at the Minster.<ref>{{NPOR|id=D04217|desc=Yorkshire York, Cathedral of St. Peter ('York Minster'), Deangate|access-date=22 June 2018}}</ref>

In 2018, a £2&nbsp;million project to refurbish the current organ was announced. The project took two years for its completion in March 2021 and saw nearly all of its 5,403 pipes removed and taken to organ specialists [[Harrison & Harrison]] in Durham.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yorkminster.org/discover/conservation/organ-refurbishment/ |title=The once-a-century refurbishment |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821162120/https://yorkminster.org/discover/conservation/organ-refurbishment/ |archive-date=21 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite web
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-56294640
|title=York Minster Grand Organ to play again after £2m repair
|date=5 March 2021
|work=BBC News
|publisher=BBC
|access-date=5 March 2021}}</ref>

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File:Interior of York Minster31.JPG|The organ on the choir screen
File:York Minster Choir, Nth Yorkshire, UK - Diliff.jpg|The choir
File:YorkMCrypt.jpg|The crypt
</gallery>

===Organists===
{{See also|List of musicians at English cathedrals}}
The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, the job description roughly equates to that of [[Organist and Master of the Choristers]]. The current Organist and Director of Music of the Minster is Robert Sharpe. There is also an assistant director of Music, Ben Morris.

Among the notable organists of York Minster are four members of the [[Camidge family]], who served as the cathedral's organists for over 100 years, and a number of composers including [[John Naylor (organist)|John Naylor]], [[T. Tertius Noble]], [[Edward Bairstow]], [[Francis Jackson (composer)|Francis Jackson]], and [[Philip Moore (organist)|Philip Moore]].