Society General Meeting

Talk: Conserving George Pyke’s 1765 Organ Clock (Rearranged from March)

By Malcolm Archer

Malcolm is a self-employed clockmaker based in West Dean. He is also Associate Tutor on the Clocks programme at West Dean College, providing tutoring and specialised training in small work such as carriage clocks. In 2014 he led a major collaboration between Leeds Temple Newsam House and West Dean College to conserve and restore George Pyke’s 1765 Organ Clock. The Pyke clock has a near eight-foot-high ebonised case containing the clock movement, an automaton dial and a barrel organ with wood and metal pipes. It plays music from a large rotating barrel with several thousand individual pins and bridges, each activating a note. Malcolm’s talk will describe the project, which involved craftsmen from almost every department of the College