Editing Buckfast Abbey (section)

=== Organ ===
The Abbey has an organ by the Italian organ builder, [[Fratelli Ruffatti|Fratelli Ruffati]], the first to be constructed in the UK. The organ was installed in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=News on the Buckfast Abbey organ, Devon, England {{!}} The Ruffatti Brothers |url=https://ruffatti.com/en/news-on-the-buckfast-abbey-organ-devon-england/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |language=it-IT}}</ref> and given its inaugural recital in 2018. The instrument consists of a substantial Quire Organ (four divisions and pedal) located on both sides of the Quire and the upper triforium, and a Grand-Orgue in the West Gallery (two divisions and pedal). The two spatially-separated instruments can by played antiphonally or together from one or both of the two consoles in the church.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Devon, Buckfastleigh, Buckfast Abbey - St. Mary, [T01101] |url=https://npor.org.uk/survey/T01101}}</ref> The organ contains 5,537 pipes and features a striking Pontifical Trumpet ''en chamade'', which protrudes horizontally from the West Gallery casework. 

The organ by Ruffati replaced a previous Hele/Walker instrument, the basis of which was installed in 1922 and later added to in successive changes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Downes |first=Ralph |date=1952 |title=A Chronicle of the Organ in Buckfast Abbey Church |journal=Musical Times |volume=93 |pages=412–13|doi=10.2307/934456 |jstor=934456 }}</ref> Important changes to the stop list were made by [[Ralph Downes]], who also rescaled and revoiced the existing pipework in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Downes |first=Ralph |title=Builders' typed notes and Baroque Tricks |year=1983 |pages=144–151}}</ref>