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Are you researching a new organ for your church (whether pipe or digital) at the moment? I’m sure you will agree that it is a privilege which can be as daunting as it is exciting and interesting. Is your current instrument a pipe organ or a digital church organ? Your task will be less of…
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I am sure that we are all reeling from the shock of the imposed lockdown and spending considerable time now wondering what will follow on. What will the new norm be? When will we feel happy going to the pub again and when will our churches reopen. Most of us have too much time to…
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There can be few better known organists faces on the highways and by ways of the internet than Kevin Bowyer’s. He is often seen with his characteristic smiling face ‘beaming’ at the virtual audience. I first met Kevin in about 2003. He came to my home to offer guidance and advice to a young St…
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At Viscount Classical Organs we know how important it is to encourage and help young organists of the future where we can. It is important for our industry, and also for the future of the organ community in general. A digital practice organ helps with studies In January we received an email from young Leicestershire…
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The Covid-19 crisis has triggered a small peak in demand for home practice organs among the musicians who are now trapped at home and excluded from use of their church instrument. A practice organ for home is by any stretch of the imagination a ‘luxury purchase’. In more normal times it is dominated by a…
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The Grand Organ at Westminster Cathedral was built by Henry Willis III. Willis and Hill vied for position as England finest organ builders but Willis probably has the reputation for building more exciting pipe organs, with especially fine reed stops. The first scheme for a new organ was actually proposed by T C Lewis in…
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Your chance to win a pair of brand new Viscount VHD-1000 headphones! All you need to do is to answer the questions below correctly and you’ll be entered into the draw. To enter the competition please first read the rules and then proceed to answering the questions below. Remember to fill in your contact details…
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I am sure a question that none of us can resist putting to any accomplished professional organist we might meet is – ‘which organ does he or she consider to be the best they have ever played’? We all have genuine curiosity on that topic, one which of course is in reality impossible to split…
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In this amazingly troubled time for our world and this country I thought we needed something to distract us, if only briefly, from the avalanche of bad news that keeps hitting us from all directions. In my wilder moments I sometimes consider what music I might choose if I were ever to be asked to…
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We now have over 30 instruments in our range of organs. Adding a new smaller 3 manual organ to our range might have been the last thing you thought we needed. In recent years there have been increasing pressures for organ advisers to restrict the number of stops a digital organ provides, to a number…
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Recently I had the good fortune of attending evensong in the Kings College Chapel (for the second time). The first was some 15 years or so ago when David Briggs had very kindly arranged for me to have a play of the instrument after the service and then join him and Sir Stephen Cleobury for…
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We invited Holly Broadbent, one of our Australian based customers, to share her journey to choosing a Viscount Organ for practising at home. She is a student, studying Organ and undertaking an honours degree at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and she thought by sharing her story – it may help other home…
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David J. W. Murray is giving an organ recital on our custom built 3 manual Regent installed in 2014 by Soundtech Classical Organs of Irvine in Lyle Kirk. David is the Director of Music at Oakshaw Trinity Church, Paisley. Despite living in Glasgow, David is no stranger to Inverclyde and Lyle Kirk in particular. He…
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Our organ performance tutorials for 2020 concentrate on the playing of organ arrangements for weddings and memorial services. Often requested, this music is a regular feature of many organists’ work. Most of the pieces we’ve chosen to feature in our organ performance tutorials can be performed successfully on a wide range of different instruments. All…
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I set off early on the morning of Saturday January 25 to drive to Cardiff. I was the ‘guest speaker’ at the South East Wales Organists’ Associations annual lunch at the Radisson Blu Hotel. Born in Wales and until 7 years ago with a parent still living in Cardiff, this was a drive the car…
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Buying a digital organ is similar in scope to purchasing a new car. Model and specifications vary, and the final choice is often guided by personal preference. A digital organ, whether purchased for use at home, in a church or a concert hall, is an investment that should give you many years – even decades!…
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2019 was a momentous year and as I sit typing this account, I am not quite sure where to put the emphasis. The beginning of the year was understandably focussed on some staff changes. Our new sales manager Richard Patt had just joined and we were also making plans for long term friend and colleague…
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I have chosen this customer installation to write up in some detail as there is an interesting story to tell that involves a lot of the issues faced by our country churches in general and specifically with organ improvements. All Hallows Church is unusual in the following respects:- The speed with which the formal processes…
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I was delighted to receive an invitation to attend a gathering of organ and church music enthusiasts for a special evensong service at the Chapel Royal St James’s Palace in November. I had been there many years before when Joseph Nolan was playing for a BBC 3 broadcast evensong to act as page turner. Unexpectedly…
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Almost exactly a year ago we were asked to find a new home for a very pretty small pipe organ in a Methodist Church that was about to be converted into flats. It was a sensationally successful social media campaign finding many offers for the instrument and a post that reached over 175,000 readers. We…
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We are delighted to support St Edward’s College in Liverpool with a permanent loan instrument for the College Hall. The digital organ (Viscount Cadet 31) will allow their young organ students access to an instrument in school to practise and perform on. The organ will be used in assemblies, liturgies and concerts in the College…
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Trinity Methodist Church in Golders Green have a Compton 6 rank extension organ dating from 1939 housed in 2 swell boxes on their west end gallery. The console has the Compton ‘illuminated’ stop controls. About 15 years ago it was subject to an expensive overhaul and it again faced a further refurbishment estimate in the…
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Here at Viscount, a vitally important part of our job is to make sure we know each and every product inside and out, not just from an operational perspective, but also technical. Every now and then we will get a call or email from a customer informing us that their instrument has a problem which…
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We are living in an age where technology seems to be moving at a remarkable pace. I wonder if our Victorian forbears felt the same? I doubt it. Never before has technology so much entered our daily lives. Smart phones, video links and apps that allow us to turn off the home lights from far…
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