The British Musical Biography

[E] Pilling, Samuel Wilkinson, amateur
organist and authority on organ construction,
born at Boltou-le-Moors, 1856. Educated at
Victoria College, Manchester; received his
musical training under S. B. Whiteley, arid
J. Dobson, of Southport, and later under J.
Kendrick Pyne, of Manchester. Has given
many organ recitals in different parts of the
country, and appeared at the Bow and Brom-
ley Institute, December 2, 1882, and is also
known as an occasional lecturer upon matters
referring to the organ. Many improvements
in organ construction have been initiated by
him, and he has designed and opened upwards
of one hundred-and-thirty organs in various
localities. He has an exceptional!)' fine four-
manual organ in the music-room of his resi-
dence. The Hagg, Mirfield, which was opened
by Jules Grison, of Rheims, November 80,
1887, and upon which many distinguished
organists have given recitals. Mr. Pilling is
by profession a Civil Engineer and Railway
Contractor, succeeding to the business of his
father, Abraham Pilling, J. P., late of Bolton.

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