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Traveling with colleague Richard Patt to meet a potential customer in Suffolk recently, I had the opportunity to pass close by one of our recent installations in a very fine country church. So I took the opportunity to break the journey and pop into St Mary’s to listen to our instrument. St Mary the Virgin…
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Introducing our new 3D showcase of the Viscount showroom in Bicester. This is more than a 3D model. It’s all-in-one visualisation of our showroom, right in your web browser or virtual reality headset. Explore the 3D space below which includes information about our organs, videos and links to relevant pages on our website for more…
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For many churches finding an organist is a great challenge and having a regular organist to rely on each Sunday can be very difficult. Many churches rely on the generosity of several musicians who alternate to ensure the congregation have organ accompaniment each Sunday. Basic questions around the Choir Master Hymn Player One of the…
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Those of you who have kindly read many of my blogs will know that I grew up in Wales moving away to work in London at 21, well before my now obsessive interest in the organ took hold. And so perhaps it is not altogether surprising that the number of Welsh pipe organs I have…
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Viscount Organs are proud to support The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme by providing them with a loan instrument. We wrote back in 2016 how we were delighted to provide this programme with an Envoy 35-F organ to be used during organ lessons. The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme was created in 2016…
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Leeds International Organ Festival brings some of the world’s finest players to the city, performing on Leeds Cathedral’s fine four-manual Klais organ in the lunchtime recital series, and leading classes for some of the young pupils in the Organists’ Training Programme in the local area. This year, a particular highlight will be the renewed composer…
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A selection of works from Handel to Hovhaness on Friday 17th May 2019 at 7.30pm! Trios, duets and solos for soprano, trumpet and organ. Trumpet: Vere Lintern-Smyth Soprano: Olwen Lintern-Smyth Organ: Fiona Gannon Advanced Tickets £10 prior to April 21st 2019, thereafter £15. Entry to include welcome drink. Donations bar available. All proceeds to the Church…
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I think there is little doubt that we can claim to be the leading UK company in the Church Organ hire and rental market. Our organ hire installations are substantial and numerous – some of which you can find in this blog section. We also pride ourselves on working hard at short notice to ensure…
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Welcome to the first of five videos in our Organ Registration Tutorial Series for 2019! In this first tutorial we’ve chosen to discuss two contrasting chorale preludes by J. S. Bach – Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639) and the Trio on Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (BWV 655). In…
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About five years ago John became involved with the music and musicians in Durban, South Africa. The first person he met was Pinkie Mtshali who is Director of Music in Emmanuel Roman Catholic Cathedral. She introduced him to many top-class musicians including Melvin Peters who is organist and choir master of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church…
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About a year ago now I learnt that Miller’s Music of Cambridge had provided a Cadet Compact 31 which was installed in the rooms of the senior organ scholar. I was aware that many college organ scholars often had a piano in their rooms and had wondered why none (to my knowledge) at either Oxford…
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James Parsons (founder of Oundle for Organists) and The Organ Club invites you to join them for the 2019 Ushaw Organ Weekend (second time it’s organised). This event is hosted at Ushaw College (5 miles from Durham) from Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June 2019. This is an opportunity for organists of all ages…
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Early last December we published what turned out to be our most far reaching Facebook Post ever. We were trying to find a new home for a very pretty little pipe organ about to be ejected from a Methodist Chapel that was in the process of conversion into flats (see a picture at the bottom…
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In the Organ Registration Tutorial Series Francis Rumsey and Jonathan Kingston discuss and demonstrate approaches to registration for distinctive genres and styles of organ music. The aim is to give you some ideas about stop combinations that might be appropriate, and tips about handling some of the organ management challenges. As will always be the…
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I am sure we all have stories of strange and unusual items we have seen in the organ lofts we visit. Perhaps you will be able to add to these stories for me? I will always remember the loft at St Johns College Cambridge where on reaching the top step I bent down to pick…
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For the second time in recent years we are providing a hire instrument for the magnificent St Bride’s Church in London. Last time the pipe organ was decommissioned while the church was redecorated. This occasion is far more serious as the Compton pipe organ is now silent following a massive lightening strike that destroyed quite…
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I thought you might like to read an update on the instrument installed in 2011 at St Augustine’s Church. New place for the organ console and speakers The church closed in 2017 for a major refurbishment and redecoration which was completed earlier this year. We removed the instrument and took it into storage while the…
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What I hear you ask is unusual about an organ in a loft. That’s where you would expect to find the console. In fact I think most organists if asked, would they prefer to be on the floor of the church or tucked away out of sight in the private world of a loft would…
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Gosh what a year! It is hard to know quite where to begin to share with you how much has happened in 2018. It is absolutely true that if you asked a group of organists to express their opinions on the sound of various instruments pipe and digital there would be a great spread of…
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It is almost 8 years now since we introduced the instruments based on Viscount’s unique software-based sound engine platform ‘Physis’. We launched the instruments with version 1.04 of the software and we have had 11 revisions with version 1.14.02 being the current edition as of November 2018. Upgraded your Envoy, Regent or Sonus instrument yet?…
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Back in the mid 2000’s before the financial crisis turned the world on its head I used to enjoy a monthly trip into London for lessons with Catherine Ennis at her wonderful church in the heart of the City of London. It was a most enjoyable ‘day off’ and a visit that I always looked…
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In 2018 we’ve added six more videos to our organ music library. These new tutorial videos focuses on works suitable for choir and organ accompaniment. We introduced Hymn of the Month in 2016 and this continued in 2017 so we have a library of organ music now with 24 well known tunes for you to…
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On a lovely April spring day, we had exclusive use of St Kenelm’s Church Enstone to film a much more detailed presentation of our popular Envoy 35-F church and home practice instrument. The particular model we used having been ‘upgraded’ to provide sub and super swell octave couplers. Francis Rumsey in charge As ever the…
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Welcome to the sixth and final release in the Choral Organ Accompaniment series. Sussex Carol speaks “Christmas” from its first notes, it being well known as one of the mainstays of the traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve. For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the…
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