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In the Organ Registration Tutorial Series Francis Rumsey and Jonathan Kingston discuss and demonstrate approaches to registration for distinctive genres and styles of organ music. The aim is to give you some ideas about stop combinations that might be appropriate, and tips about handling some of the organ management challenges. As will always be the…
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I am sure we all have stories of strange and unusual items we have seen in the organ lofts we visit. Perhaps you will be able to add to these stories for me? I will always remember the loft at St Johns College Cambridge where on reaching the top step I bent down to pick…
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For the second time in recent years we are providing a hire instrument for the magnificent St Bride’s Church in London. Last time the pipe organ was decommissioned while the church was redecorated. This occasion is far more serious as the Compton pipe organ is now silent following a massive lightening strike that destroyed quite…
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I thought you might like to read an update on the instrument installed in 2011 at St Augustine’s Church. New place for the organ console and speakers The church closed in 2017 for a major refurbishment and redecoration which was completed earlier this year. We removed the instrument and took it into storage while the…
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What I hear you ask is unusual about an organ in a loft. That’s where you would expect to find the console. In fact I think most organists if asked, would they prefer to be on the floor of the church or tucked away out of sight in the private world of a loft would…
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Gosh what a year! It is hard to know quite where to begin to share with you how much has happened in 2018. It is absolutely true that if you asked a group of organists to express their opinions on the sound of various instruments pipe and digital there would be a great spread of…
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It is almost 8 years now since we introduced the instruments based on Viscount’s unique software-based sound engine platform ‘Physis’. We launched the instruments with version 1.04 of the software and we have had 11 revisions with version 1.14.19 being the current edition as of December 2022 . Upgraded your Envoy, Regent or Sonus instrument…
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Back in the mid 2000’s before the financial crisis turned the world on its head I used to enjoy a monthly trip into London for lessons with Catherine Ennis at her wonderful church in the heart of the City of London. It was a most enjoyable ‘day off’ and a visit that I always looked…
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In 2018 we’ve added six more videos to our organ music library. These new choral organ accompaniment tutorial videos focus on works suitable for choir and organ. Combined with our Hymn of the Month posts, we now have 24 well known tunes in our library of organ music, for you to refer to for organ…
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On a lovely April spring day, we had exclusive use of St Kenelm’s Church Enstone to film a much more detailed presentation of our popular Envoy 35-F church and home practice instrument. The particular model we used having been ‘upgraded’ to provide sub and super swell octave couplers. Francis Rumsey in charge As ever the…
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Welcome to the sixth and final release in the Choral Organ Accompaniment series. Sussex Carol speaks “Christmas” from its first notes, it being well known as one of the mainstays of the traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve. For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the…
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It was almost exactly a year ago that we had a call out of the blue from Richard Apperley and Michael Stewart who were in the UK to find a supplier of a large digital instrument for Wellington Cathedral in New Zealand. Their fine pipe organ had been destroyed by an earthquake late in 2016…
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