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It is almost a year ago when I accompanied Dr Joseph Nolan, award winning organist and personal friend, to assist with his epic recordings of the complete works of Alkan at the organ in St Martins Church Dudelange in Luxembourg. A new recording adventure begins This four-night, epic recording challenged us all to the extreme….
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We recently shared the interesting origins of the Sheldonian Theatre’s organ where we shared that we’d installed a Envoy 350-FV. Here I share how the voicing of this instrument went. The Sheldonian challenge, voicing in a dry space. Voicing a digital organ in a relatively “dry” space is always much more of a challenge than…
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The prospect of voicing a large instrument in one of the most fantastic buildings in the country was a particularly appealing one to start the year. Wells Cathedral has an absolutely cavernous acoustic, yet is extremely favourable to music. The town itself is charismatic and everyone we met was very kind to us, from the…
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It was in April 2025 when we received an email from Timothy Parsons, Director of Music at Wells Cathedral, asking us to prepare a scheme of works and quotation for providing a 3-manual hire instrument with external audio for use while the Cathedral’s Harrison pipe organ underwent significant refurbishment. We were told this work would…
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I first set foot in the Sheldonian Theatre in the October of 1973 for my matriculation ceremony, when no doubt I had the pleasure of listening to the Harrison & Harrison pipe organ that was then still in use at the time. Back then, the ‘organ bug’ had not taken hold, so I very much…
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Just 5 minutes after I wrote to Hugh Morris at the RSCM for an update of the programme for his St Cecelia’s day Organ Marathon the office phone rang. At the other end was Roger Wilcox, the new custodian and energy behind a website created many years ago by Steven Smith to publicise and list…
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Across the last weekend in August, composer Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn will present “For Samuel Beckett”, the longest fully notated composition ever written for the organ – this will be an entirely unique experience as Heath Street Baptist Church is filled with sound for up to twenty-seven hours in this world record…
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Building on the success of the Director’s Challenge in 2023, The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) have developed an idea for a focussed, highly visible event to enable them to expand messaging around playing and learning the organ, and the vital role it plays in supporting worship and communities. This “organ marathon” also forms…
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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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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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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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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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