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York Minster Organ Hires
I was in the Minster twice last year. First in May for a delightful hour or so locked in alone with the Minster pipe organ and then in October to join a group celebrating the 100th birthday of former Minster organist Francis Jackson. Had I known at the time that we would be providing 2…
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A tale of two organs
I (Francis Rumsey) found myself in Dublin in late August, invited by Viscount’s Irish dealer David Jeffers to voice two rather different Physis-based organs that they had recently installed. The experience brought into sharp focus the differences between voicing a smallish organ in a modest church with limited reverberation, and a large one in a…
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![[Choral Accompaniment] Thou Visitest the Earth](https://viscountorgans.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Choral-Accompaniment-Thou-Visitest-the-Earth-Feature-196x136.jpg)
[Choral Accompaniment] Thou Visitest the Earth
For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the organ as a means of choral accompaniment. Accompanying a choir requires that the instrument supports boldly in a limited number of places, but recedes at many other times to allow the vocal parts to come through. It is also heard in solo role joining choral sections…
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Hire Organ for Adoremus 2018 in Liverpool
Over the weekend of 7-9 September about 10,000 people gathered in Liverpool for the largest Catholic procession in the UK since the late Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1982. They were attending the first National Eucharistic Congress in the country since 1908. The Catholic Church holds a Eucharistic Congress every three or four years…
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Hire Organ for St Bartholomew’s Crewkerne
It has been a very demanding year for organ hires. In fact the demand seems to have no end in sight with two more just booked for September to cover pipe organ rebuilds in London and Bromley. From this insight into the ‘pipe organ world’ I would say that the work out there has never…
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![[Choral Accompaniment] Psalm 20 (Chant by Gerald Knight)](https://viscountorgans.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Choral-Accompaniment-Psalm-20-Feature-196x136.jpg)
[Choral Accompaniment] Psalm 20 (Chant by Gerald Knight)
For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the organ as a means of choral accompaniment. Accompanying a choir requires that the instrument supports boldly in a limited number of places, but recedes at many other times to allow the vocal parts to come through. It is also heard in solo role joining choral sections…
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Video demonstration of the Envoy 35-F
We thought that it would be helpful to provide a detailed run through of one of our more popular instruments, the Viscount Envoy 35-F, on a voice by voice basis. On the video produced you will hear almost all stops individually demonstrated and also their use in the choruses to which they belong. This will…
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Three Viscount Vans
It is about 8 years now since we introduced our new company branding. This was an image we found on one of the stock picture websites of a lovely stained glass window next to an organ pipe façade. We have used it in our advertising, literature and website ever since so it was only natural…
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Growing Network of Organ Dealers
In what I think we would all agree is a slowly shrinking world of classical organs for either home or church use it is very encouraging to see two new partner companies enter the market. These are South Coast Organs owned and run by Mark Gatrell and Viscount Organs Wales owned and run by Tony…
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Chorum Organ Range – Instructional Videos
Many of you will have seen the 12 extensive videos that we have published setting out how to get the best from your Viscount ‘Physis’ organ. These are our Envoy, Regent and Sonus ranges. Some of you may well be pleased to know that the Viscount Chorum Organ Range based on the traditional ‘sampled sound’…
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Our newly refurbished office
Sometimes it just takes a kick in the backside to draw attention to matters that have passed you by in daily life. I have sat in our Bicester offices for 12 years now. In the early years just occasionally as I was involved in other businesses, but in recent years near full time as the…
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Organ Music from the Irish Tour
In the third week of May I had the great good fortune to travel to 3 marvellous locations in Ireland and Eire. With me was my great friend Dr Joseph Nolan, who is an amazing musician. We visited three of our larger church installations to play recitals by way of a thank you to these communities…
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