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This time it was Sherborne Abbey in Dorset. On Wednesday 29th April we received a call from James Henderson (Director of Music) desperate to know if we could provide an instrument for long-term hire within a week. The Abbey was having some internal building work (moving the vestry to create a new internal toilet block)…
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An afternoon of theatre organ music will take place on Sunday 26th April 2026 at 2:30pm at Paul Kirner’s Music Palace in Ynyshir, Porth. This special event will feature leading organist Michael Wooldridge, joined by young organists Jamyma Hanson and Jack Morton. The concert promises a varied programme showcasing the distinctive sound and expressive range…
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It was just a little less than a year ago when we were invited to St Mary’s Church in Horncastle to make a proposal for a new digital organ. The 3 manual rocker tab Makin organ had given many years of good service but in recent times become subject to technical issues that required service…
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It was in December 2022 when we were first contacted by Robbie Starling, organist at Hanham Baptist Church in Bristol. Their 2-manual Bradford computing organ had given around 30 years of faithful service. However, time had taken its toll and the instrument had reached a point where repair was no longer economically viable. A new…
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2025 started with quite a challenge filming our latest Regent Classic instrument at Selby Abbey. The camera resources were once again provided by my cousin whose company Air TV has created ‘Bangers & Cash. Audio skills were from our great friend Ken Blair so the regular team assembled in a very cold Abbey for the…
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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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