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A Viscount at the Proms: Supporting Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang

A Viscount organ has been selected for one of this year’s BBC Proms concerts, not in London’s Royal Albert Hall, but in the North-East at the beautiful Glasshouse International Centre for Music, in Gateshead. On Saturday 26th July 2025, the Glasshouse will host BBC Proms: Bach and Mendelssohn, with a full symphony orchestra and chorus… 
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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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