Colin Pykett has a first class honours degree and a PhD in
physics from King's College London, and he is also a Fellow of
the
Institute of Physics. He was formerly Chief Scientist and
Technical Director in a high
technology organisation after a career during which he spent many years working
in acoustics and digital signal processing. His musical
training began with the piano, and subsequently it took in the oboe and
the organ. Initially he studied the latter instrument with the late Russell Missin at St
Mary's Nottingham, and subsequently he
received tuition from
others of similar stature while at university. He has
continued to play the organ, sing in choirs
and train them in many churches over some 40 years. Colin has undertaken research in organ topics for
several decades, particularly in the
mechanisms of sound generation in organ pipes, and he has been recording and
analysing their sounds for over a quarter of a century. He is recognised
internationally for his work on electronic tone production, having published his
first papers on the subject in 1980. He has designed and made several
electronic organs, the first in 1966 and the latest digital one in 2005 which is
being continually updated. More recently he has
investigated responsive mechanical and electric actions for pipe organs from both an experimental and a
theoretical standpoint. As a result of all this he has more experience in
these areas than most in the
business today, experience which is put to good use in his activities as an
organ adviser. He is a member of several societies and associations
devoted to organ matters, and is in demand as a speaker at their events.
In 2007 he became the first recipient of the Arthur le Boutillier award of the
Electronic Organ Constructors' Society.
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