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Traveling with colleague Richard Patt to meet a potential customer in Suffolk recently, I had the opportunity to pass close by one of our recent installations in a very fine country church. So I took the opportunity to break the journey and pop into St Mary’s to listen to our instrument. St Mary the Virgin…
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For our second tutorial in the Organ Registration Tutorial Series Jonathan and Francis take a look at Buxtehude’s big G minor Praeludium, as a way in to discussing how to register baroque music of the North German school. This piece is a great example of the so-called stylus phantasticus, and a precursor to Bach’s preludes or…
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Introducing our new 3D showcase of the Viscount showroom in Bicester. This is more than a 3D model. It’s all-in-one visualisation of our showroom, right in your web browser or virtual reality headset. Explore the 3D space below which includes information about our organs, videos and links to relevant pages on our website for more…
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For many churches finding an organist is a great challenge and having a regular organist to rely on each Sunday can be very difficult. Many churches rely on the generosity of several musicians who alternate to ensure the congregation have organ accompaniment each Sunday. Basic questions around the Choir Master Hymn Player One of the…
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Those of you who have kindly read many of my blogs will know that I grew up in Wales moving away to work in London at 21, well before my now obsessive interest in the organ took hold. And so perhaps it is not altogether surprising that the number of Welsh pipe organs I have…
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Viscount Organs are proud to support The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme by providing them with a loan instrument. We wrote back in 2016 how we were delighted to provide this programme with an Envoy 35-F organ to be used during organ lessons. The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme was created in 2016…
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Leeds International Organ Festival brings some of the world’s finest players to the city, performing on Leeds Cathedral’s fine four-manual Klais organ in the lunchtime recital series, and leading classes for some of the young pupils in the Organists’ Training Programme in the local area. This year, a particular highlight will be the renewed composer…
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A selection of works from Handel to Hovhaness on Friday 17th May 2019 at 7.30pm! Trios, duets and solos for soprano, trumpet and organ. Trumpet: Vere Lintern-Smyth Soprano: Olwen Lintern-Smyth Organ: Fiona Gannon Advanced Tickets £10 prior to April 21st 2019, thereafter £15. Entry to include welcome drink. Donations bar available. All proceeds to the Church…
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I think there is little doubt that we can claim to be the leading UK company in the Church Organ hire and rental market. Our organ hire installations are substantial and numerous – some of which you can find in this blog section. We also pride ourselves on working hard at short notice to ensure…
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Welcome to the first of five videos in our Organ Registration Tutorial Series for 2019! In this first tutorial we’ve chosen to discuss two contrasting chorale preludes by J. S. Bach – Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639) and the Trio on Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (BWV 655). In…
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About five years ago John became involved with the music and musicians in Durban, South Africa. The first person he met was Pinkie Mtshali who is Director of Music in Emmanuel Roman Catholic Cathedral. She introduced him to many top-class musicians including Melvin Peters who is organist and choir master of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church…
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Our newest recruit, Richard Patt, talks about how his father’s love of the organ influenced him and how a chance meeting in a music shop led him to marrying the love of his life. My interest in the organ started when I was eight years old. My father, a green grocer and ice-cream maker, felt…
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