Sisters of Transistors - At The Ferranti Institute

Sisters of Transistors call themselves the UK's Premier Combo Organ Quartet and Ladies Social Club. Amongst their number are: Miss Mandy Wigby aka Sister Wigby Elka Wippeny - one of Yorkshire's foremost organists and specialist in alternative therapies, Miss Naomi Hart aka Sister Naomi Doric Pencrest - a graduate of the Royal Northern College Of Music and expert in the harmonic structure of icebergs, Miss Henrietta Smith-Rolla aka Sister Henrietta Vox Humana - a self-taught organ obsessive, who has an advanced form of synaesthesia, Miss Ragna Skinner aka Sister Ragna Tiescodottir, a graduate of Kleberg School in Reykjavik, student of Acoustics at Salford University and on drums Graham Massey aka Prof Vernon World-Drums.

It was in the summer of 1993, whilst setting up for a rave with his Techno group 808 State at Burton Wood Air force Base that Graham Massey first became interested in the history of Organ quartets. Whilst exploring the building prior to the bands 4am slot they discovered Room 201 which contained a selection of Hammond Model D Organs and some sheet music credited to Lillian Meyers. During the Second World War Burton Wood was home to 18,000 US and British Service men. The Air force base became the first port of call for organs imported from Chicago's Hammond Company for use in US Military chapels.
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