The UK's leading Digital Church Organ specialist
From time to time I am extraordinarily flattered to receive personal emails in reply to our regular monthly newsletters. If you are one of our newsletter subscribers (Subscribe here, if you haven’t already), you will already know that we work hard to fill them with juicy, interesting information based on musical interests, stories about the…
[Read More]
We have a number of overseas customers, and it is always a great story to share how we get our instruments to the far corners of the world safely. I particularly enjoyed working with St Andrew’s Church in Nairobi who ordered a large 3 manual organ. In this modern world that we live in, we…
[Read More]
The third piece in this organ performance tutorial series is Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring by J.S. Bach. It’s a useful and relatively gentle piece that’s popular for weddings, perhaps at the signing of the registers, but could equally well be used for memorial services. < “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” is a popular and…
[Read More]
The Royal College of Organists (RCO) has generously made its considerable library of online video tutorial material available for free during the ‘lockdown’. If you care to take a look, it is extensive and of course of very good quality as you would expect. iRCO is the RCO’s virtual campus – an online environment where…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
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…
[Read More]
Stay up to date with Viscount on Facebook and Twitter
