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In February of this year, we received an email from the organist, Roger Tempest at South Aston United Reformed Church in Birmingham. Their 1980’s Wyvern drawstop organ had given up the ghost after around 40 years of good service. Roger had been looking on our website and was drawn to our new Ensign 42-FV as…
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Life is back to pre pandemic normal. It’s five years since the arrival of coronavirus dramatically changed how the world worked. The impact on all of us was huge. There were some winning changes but for the most part the huge disruption that flowed from lockdowns and fear damaged us all personally and our businesses….
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I recently was back in Wales to join a group of organists to celebrate the opening of Aspire Organs new showroom in Pyle, a small town close to Port Talbot. Tony had carefully refurbished the space to provide a very comfortable and spacious presentation of both new and used instruments, together with a substantial external…
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A few weeks back, we were asked to visit St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Willenhall who were looking to replace their Victorian pipe organ with a digital instrument. The decision to consider a digital alternative was due to the prohibitive cost of bringing the original pipe organ back up to standard. A Historic Nicholson…
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I normally write this review much earlier in the year. The start of 2025 has been so busy it is not now until early March that I have found the time to put pen to paper and reflect on the major events of the previous year. Launch of Physis+ and the first church installation using…
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When I first experienced an organ, I became utterly transfixed by it. Discovering that they sounded so different from location to location was a great surprise to me. I’ve been lucky to experience many organs during my time playing, with some being more influential than others. I will talk about some of the interesting instruments…
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Whilst in Luxembourg for our Alkan recording project with Dr Joseph Nolan, we were lucky enough to get a day off to explore the organs around Luxembourg City. As Eglise Saint-Martin was naturally busy on the Sunday we took the opportunity to visit nearby Luxembourg for lunch and do a little tourist activity. All public…
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For nearly 20 years now, I have been fortunate to assist my great musician friend, Dr Joseph Nolan make recordings or concerts on some of the most famous and highly regarded instruments across France and beyond. I have learnt so much by watching a true expert perform and of course been able to sneak onto…
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Every once-in-a-while, we are invited to a church with a really interesting history, and so it was, when were invited to visit Magdalen Chapel in Holloway, Bath in July of this year. The church has a Viscount Prestige 80 which was installed around 25 years ago. It has given great service over that time but…
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The RSCM produces guidance on fees and remuneration of Church Musicians. They now invite you to take part to help refresh and overhaul this work. The purpose of this survey is to inform updated guidance on church musicians’ fees to be issued by the RSCM, often known as “RSCM rates”. Church music is of course…
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You may have read my recent post introducing myself, if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I invite you to catch up on this now: Meet Cassian Southwick: Another team member with a longstanding passion for organs. In that post I touched on my time as an Organ Scholar at both St…
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Over the years, we have been lucky enough to supply various instruments to the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. In May of this year, Malcolm L’Amy, a well-known organist in Jersey, approached us with a new request: to find a suitable replacement instrument for the ageing Rodgers 785 organ at St. Peter’s Church. Which, after…
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