The Parochial Church Council at St Peter's Church in Oundle has taken another step forward step in its bid to install a brand new organ. It has appointed the Canadian organ builder Letourneau as its preferred option after an exhaustive selection process led by Director of Music Jenny Firth and her opposite number at Peterborough Cathedral Andrew Reid. Letourneau has built only four other instruments in England, including one at Selwyn College, Cambridge and at Pembroke College, Oxford (pictured right). The instrument to be built is expected to be a two-manual (two keyboards) and will be a new instrument in every respect. The PCC has already agreed to site the organ above the present Tower Room at the west end of the building (Letourneau design pictured left). The present instrument will be taken down from its current location in the north-east of the building where it has stood since the 1870s. A special steering group has now been appointed by the PCC to proceed with the project and even investigate other re-ordering options at St Peter's - including the possible sound-proofing of the Lady Chapel and the development of the Brereton Room and north transept. "This is very early days for all aspects of the project", commented the vicar Richard Ormston. "But I feel sure this will really excite everyone in the church family and that it will promote our witness to Christ in the area even further", he added. The steering group will meet in the spring of 2008 to look at all options and consider the process for funding. The contractors, who would take around 18 months to build and install the organ, would need around a year's notice to begin work. The initial estimate for the cost of the organ alone, its construction and siting in the west gallery is around £350,000.