Margaret Falkner
Margaret Falkner was not a conventional music teacher but she is remembered in the Hall of Fame for her contribution to the British Electronic Organ Scene.
Margaret was involved with the Crawley Keyboard Club with her husband, Alan. She became more widely known when she started creating websites for organ societies and keyboard clubs and listing them altogether under the banner of ORGANFAX.
Margaret developed ORGANFAX to include directories of players and organ clubs. It became a source of information including dates of concerts and special events
Her sessions at Pontin's Barton Hall Torquay Keyboard Music Festivals became popular with guests wanting to know more her websites on the Internet, and is shown above in 2001 at one of the 24 computers installed for adventure holidays for teenagers.
Margaret's computer sessions continued at the Lyme Bay Keyboard Experience in Seaton Devon until her sad death in 2007.
From the Organfax website......
Organfax was the brainchild of Margaret Falkner, the one time leading light of the successful Crawley Keyboard Club in Sussex. Her dream was to create an 'electronic' magazine and directory for enthusiasts of popular organ and keyboard music, along with a source of up to the minute news and views from the industry in real time. Within a matter of just a few months, literally dozens of players along with clubs, societies and organisations had worked with her and her husband Alan to create what was and still is the most comprehensive 'almanac' of all matters keyboard to be found anywhere on the 'world wide web'. Streamed audio, video and even radio style programmes followed quickly afterwards and it wasn't long before the site was attracting some 5000 plus hits every day.
Sadly, Margaret lost her battle with cancer in February 2007, leaving behind an amazing legacy of Internet content for which she will always be remembered for as the Organ World's Foremost 'Wizard Of The Web'.
Following Margaret's sad passing, plans were put in force for a new host and Stuart Hutton of JPW Media took hold of the reigns until his release of it to the current team.
Visit the ORGANFAX website: http://www.organfax.co.uk/home/
