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A message from our MD, David Mason We are ready to open up our showroom to customers and wish to provide you with some information about how we aim to do this in a way that is safe for you to visit and, in time, for our staff to return to work. We know how…
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Are you researching a new organ for your church (whether pipe or digital) at the moment? I’m sure you will agree that it is a privilege which can be as daunting as it is exciting and interesting. Is your current instrument a pipe organ or a digital church organ? Your task will be less of…
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I am sure that we are all reeling from the shock of the imposed lockdown and spending considerable time now wondering what will follow on. What will the new norm be? When will we feel happy going to the pub again and when will our churches reopen. Most of us have too much time to…
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There can be few better known organists faces on the highways and by ways of the internet than Kevin Bowyer’s. He is often seen with his characteristic smiling face ‘beaming’ at the virtual audience. I first met Kevin in about 2003. He came to my home to offer guidance and advice to a young St…
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At Viscount Classical Organs we know how important it is to encourage and help young organists of the future where we can. It is important for our industry, and also for the future of the organ community in general. A digital practice organ helps with studies In January we received an email from young Leicestershire…
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On a grey Saturday at the end of January I headed into central London to attend the annual Bloomsbury Organ Day, hosted by the Central Baptist Church in Shaftesbury Avenue, a stone’s throw from the British Museum. This event was actually the tenth such occasion masterminded by Philip Norman, a freelance organist and conductor in…
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The Covid-19 crisis has triggered a small peak in demand for home practice organs among the musicians who are now trapped at home and excluded from use of their church instrument. A practice organ for home is by any stretch of the imagination a ‘luxury purchase’. In more normal times it is dominated by a…
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The Grand Organ at Westminster Cathedral was built by Henry Willis III. Willis and Hill vied for position as England finest organ builders but Willis probably has the reputation for building more exciting pipe organs, with especially fine reed stops. The first scheme for a new organ was actually proposed by T C Lewis in…
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Your chance to win a pair of brand new Viscount VHD-1000 headphones! All you need to do is to answer the questions below correctly and you’ll be entered into the draw. To enter the competition please first read the rules and then proceed to answering the questions below. Remember to fill in your contact details…
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For the second piece in this year’s series Francis and Jonathan discuss the Solemn Melody by Sir Henry Walford Davies. Rather like Nimrod that they did in the first tutorial of 2020, this could be a useful piece for the end of a funeral. The work was originally scored for cello, strings and organ, so…
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Following on from David’s Desert Island Discs for organ players – I thought I would add to the theme. We had a great discussion about it and thought: how would we fill our time if we had to isolate ourselves (Coronavirus style) on a desert island. This led to some interesting answers and I think…
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I am sure a question that none of us can resist putting to any accomplished professional organist we might meet is – ‘which organ does he or she consider to be the best they have ever played’? We all have genuine curiosity on that topic, one which of course is in reality impossible to split…
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