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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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For our fifth tutorial in this year’s series, Francis discusses the registration of hymn accompaniments with Jonathan Kingston. Accompanying hymns is many organists’ primary role, and feedback suggests that a number of you would like to hear a bit more about this. We’ve chosen three hymns, “Praise my soul the king of heaven”, “Dear Lord…
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As many organists will no doubt be aware, Buckfast Abbey in Devon has recently benefited from the installation of a remarkable new pipe organ by Fratelli Ruffatti. This dramatic new instrument sports two beautiful consoles and a gallery organ, the whole thing playable from either end of the church. As part of the completion of…
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Local musician John Bell is giving an organ recital on our custom built 3 manual Regent installed in 2014 by Soundtech Classical Organs of Irvine in Lyle Kirk. John will present a programme of both classical and lighter music – some old, some new, with lots of contrasts in style, character and form. Music will…
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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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I am delighted to tell you that September 2019 saw the addition of this important place of worship to our list of prestigious organ hire clients. Its also amusing that it seems we are constantly bumping into staff from Harrison & Harrison as they strip out the pipe organ while we install our speakers. Not…
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For the fourth tutorial in our 2019 series, Francis Rumsey discusses the registration of Franck’s organ works with Jonathan Kingston. They decided to use his Chorale in A minor as an example, because it typifies a number of the challenges faced by organists who need to create sounds similar to those Franck might have expected….
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Almost two years ago now we took an order from the United Reformed Church in Muswell Hill who were planning a £3.0 million refurbishment of their building. It is unusual to get this much notice of a firm order but the church were anxious to fix the price in the context of the looming Brexit…
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David has kindly asked me to introduce myself as the new part-time member of staff based at our Bicester office. Most of my career has been spent in the musical instruments industry, although for five years during the 1990s I worked in the publications department of the Royal School of Church Music, located in the…
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La Révolte Des Orgues, composed in 2007, originates from Jean Guillou’s conceptual design for an organ in the new concert hall in Tenerife (completed 2003). The composition came into being when he devised the distribution of the organ pipes among multiple cases arranged around the audience. The formal go ahead for this UK production of…
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