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Londonderry Guildhall Organ Festival
We are delighted to have been invited to support this new calendar event in Londonderry on October 19th to the 21st 2017 run by the RCO with the objective of engaging young musicians with the joys of the organ. The Guildhall Organ Festival is centred around the recently restored magnificent Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ…
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Kingston upon Hull – OrganFest 2017
During a year in which Kingston upon Hull has been designated the City of Culture the annual OrganFest will be held at the Hull City Hall. The magnificent venue, which is one of the country’s finest concert halls, is a perfect place to host the OrganFest event with the presence of the 1911 Forster & Andrews—Compton instrument. The hall…
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Organ Repair Service – A 999 Call Out
After a very busy week it is nice to look forward to catching up with some private work and time at the week end as most often we do, but just occasionally the weekend piece is interrupted by the need for help which just cannot be ignored. July the 22nd 2017 was one such a…
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[Hymn of the Month] Faithful Shepherd
This time our Hymn of the Month is the song, “Faithful Shepherd, feed me” accompanied by the beautiful tune “Pastor Pastorum” by Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860). The words, by Thomas Benson Pollock (1836-1896), are appropriate for Communion. Faithful Shepherd is a gentle, serene hymn and Silcher’s simple yet elegant hymn tune Pastor Pastorum provides a perfect…
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D’Arcy Trinkwon at Selby Abbey on Regent 356 Organ
D’Arcy Trinkwon is a well-known concert organist with recital work all over the world. For a long time he has also had a Viscount 3 manual organ at home for practice. In 2014 he very kindly agreed to make a DVD on our instrument at Selby Abbey. This would help publicise the fund raising programme…
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Oundle for Organists – Summer School
Viscount provide 3 practice organs to Oundle for Organists For many years now the name of Oundle has been well known in the organ world for running teaching courses specifically aimed at young musicians. I first was involved over 20 years ago when I sponsored individual recitals which were part of the course activities. Oundle for Organists…
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22 New Organs Delivered to our Warehouse in Bicester
In April this year we had 22 new Viscount digital organs delivered to us here in Bicester. As most customers know our instruments are made by Viscount in the hillside town of Mondaino in the Le Marche region of Italy. Once a month a truck leaves Mondaino and three days later it arrives in Bicester. There…
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RCO Academy – Organ Recitals and Choral Services in Oxford
The Royal College of Organists (RCO) run an Academy programme to train young organists. Each summer they run ‘The Organ Scholar Experience‘ (TOSE), a residential course for young organists. This course itself is fully booked but if you are a young aspiring organist then email Simon Williams, or telephone 020 3865 6998 to have your name added…
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[Hymn of the Month] Praise to the Holiest in the height
In this “Hymn of the Month” we present you with the hymn song “Praise to the Holiest in the height” by John Henry Newman (1801 – 1890). This is accompanied by the hymn tune “Gerontius” by the English musician and clergyman John Bacchus Dykes (1823 – 1876). John B. Dykes was born in Hull, England,…
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Client Installation – Lough Derg Island
This client installation at Lough Derg is quite an unusual one but very exciting one indeed. From some of the pictures in this blog it is not difficult to see why Lough Derg has developed as a significant place of pilgrimage. The setting on an island lends itself to being a place of peace and…
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Understanding your Envoy, Regent and Sonus organ features
Viscount’s physical modelling platform – Physis explained Physis is a computer generated physical model of an organ pipe. This enables the Viscount Digital Organ to be manipulated in just the same way as a pipe voicer would approach an organ pipe. As most of our customers owning a physical modelling organ know these instruments allow a…
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A look back on a great 2016
Looking back at our major achievements It is frightening just how fast last year passed by and we are now in sight of mid summers day. Recent conversations with a few customers prompted me to write this review, to create a single post where the major achievements of our year are set out. No doubt…
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