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Italian Wanderings: Churches, Organs, and a Touch of Golf

About a year ago, an old university colleague proposed a golf trip to Italy, which I immediately signed up to. It was the perfect reunion excuse for a group of Oxford golfing oldies to get together and enjoy time together. Friends who I had not seen for almost 50 years came in from the USA… 
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Supporting choir and congregation: A new organ for St. Michael’s Church

Sometimes, an inquiry for a new instrument can take several years from first contact to installation, and this was indeed the case at St. Michael’s Church in Farnsfield, where the first conversation began back in February 2019. Why replace the Binns? The church’s small 13-stop Binns organ, situated in the northeast transept had become increasingly… 
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A new sound for South Aston UFC: Installing the Ensign 42-FV

In February of this year, we received an email from the organist, Roger Tempest at South Aston United Reformed Church in Birmingham. Their 1980’s Wyvern drawstop organ had given up the ghost after around 40 years of good service. Roger had been looking on our website and was drawn to our new Ensign 42-FV as… 
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From bursting at the seams to near empty

Life is back to pre pandemic normal. It’s five years since the arrival of coronavirus dramatically changed how the world worked. The impact on all of us was huge. There were some winning changes but for the most part the huge disruption that flowed from lockdowns and fear damaged us all personally and our businesses…. 
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