I represent a large worldwide group which has a great interest in theatre and concert organs and we would like to congratulate Mike Timberlake on his succinct and well-written comments regarding Mike Howard's review (Letters, July 13) of the first concert, on July 9, from the newly-restored Brighton Dome organ, which Douglas Reeve made so famous.

He is quite right when he says the restoration "is an achievement worthy of praise in itself". Seven years in the making it may have been, but a great deal of that time was spent arranging suitable monies for the project.

This is not a pile of easily movable electronics but an instrument with parts weighing tens of tons which has been shoe-horned back into a space which is smaller than the original it came out of. The project took hard graft and superior knowledge to complete.

Of its type, this is not one of the easiest instruments to play, either, and the performers showed their professionalism in a live situation, playing an instrument which was unfamiliar and on which they had only had a relatively short time to rehearse.

Well said, Mr Timberlake.

-Alan Baker, Second Touch Group, www.theatreorgans.co.uk