ABSTRACT
Samuel Green made improvements in the design of wind systems, notably by introducing horizontal bellows in place of wedge bellows. As the favourite builder of King George III he commissions to make a number of cathedral organs, including one for Salisbury in 1792. His experiments with pipework, and his improvements in the design of Swells, bellows and key actions anticipated some of the preoccupations of the nineteenth-century builders who succeeded him. Green had shown little interest in one development that would become crucial in the nineteenth century: the introduction of pedals and pedal pipes. The earliest double pedal pipes may have been installed by Thomas Elliot in 1808. Hill joined the workshop of Thomas Elliot. Elliot was a mildly progressive figure who had introduced pedals and pedal pipes in his instruments, often provided two open diapasons on the Great, and had experimented with wind systems and blowing mechanisms.
