A Brief History Of The Organ In The Chapel Of Trinity College, Cambridge - By G. F. Cobb - PREFACE - THE renovation of the Trinity Organ is a fitting opportunity for the reissue of the late Mr. Gerard Cobbs Brief History, origiially published in the Trident July, December, 1890. a Trinity College Magazine which appeared from June, 1889, to December, 189 r . The Brief History was subsequently issued as a pamphlet. Mr. Cobb 1838-1904 was a prominent musical amateur and a prolific composer, many of his songs, especially his setting of the Barrack Room Ballads, having attained great popularity. As Junior Bursar of Trinity from 1869 to 1894, he took a warm interest in the improvements of the organ in 1870 and 1890, and devoted much loving care to the details of the work done. His pamphlet is of considerable historic interest, and his suggestion as to the origin of the phrase Chaire organ is, I believe, original, and is nonr generally accepted as vell founded. The pamphlet is also probably one of the earliest specimens of the historical accounts now usually printed on such occasions as the present one. It is reprinted verbatin1 with the exception of a detailed account of the 1890 restoration and a few sentences referring thereto. I have added a description of the work just completed. I am indebted to........