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Church of St Brides, Fleet Street choose Viscount

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The Church of St Bride’s is justly world famous. With 2000 years history of worship on the site today’s landmark building was the invention of Christopher Wren famous for so many of London’s churches including of course St Paul’s Cathedral. An earlier building destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666 followed a succession of churches that… 
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[Hymn of the Month] Ellacombe

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The first record of this tune is in a hymnal (Gesangbuch) published in 1784 for the Duke of Wurtemberg. Ellacombe takes the name of a village in Devonshire. It was first set to the words “Ave Maria, klarer und lichter Morgenstern.” During the first half of the nineteenth century various German hymnals altered the tune…. 
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Newcastle Organists Annual Dinner

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I have not been to Newcastle for many years so was especially pleased to be invited to be the guest speaker at the Newcastle and District  Society of Organists Annual Dinner. This invitation came from Peter Chatfield, one their Vice Presidents – a very passionate organ person and who, like myself, is very active on… 
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Thomas Dallam’s Organ for Sultan Mehmet III 1599

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Born about 1575 Dallam served an apprenticeship as a Blacksmith but went on to become an organ builder of great repute and is believed to have built the organs of Kings College Cambridge, Eton College and the Cathedrals of Norwich, Bristol and Worcester. But none of the commissions can rival the extraordinary instruction from Queen… 
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Emergency Church Organ Hire | St Marylebone Parish Church

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Early on the morning of Friday November 13th (in 2015) we received an e-mail (9.30am) from a church asking if they could hire an organ, as their magnificent Rieger organ blower had failed. By 10.30 that morning we had offered the church 2 options and we had an agreement to supply but without commitment to make it… 
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20 Organs for the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE)

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Earlier this year we received our largest ever enquiry for 20 single manual instruments to replace a variety of older instruments from various manufacturers used in the UGLE meeting rooms. Needless to say this was an exciting prospect and we duly sharpened our pencil and were delighted to have the order confirmed in the spring…. 
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Why a pianist shouldn’t be frightened to play the organ

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When asked to play the organ, many pianists agree only very reluctantly. Often, they feel pressured into helping out during church services, when the regular organist is not available. Most times, they’re not unwilling but worried that they don’t understand how to ‘work’ all the knobs and certainly the pedals that manage the sound. The… 
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Have Organ Will Travel

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I never cease to be amazed with the level of trouble some organists will go to, to ensure that they are able to play. Especially those in the hauptwerk community. These extraordinarily enthusiastic musicians often share with us on our Facebook Page – about the quite large and complex instruments they have put together from all sorts of… 
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[Hymn of the Month] Angel Voices by George Monk

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We have received a number of requests asking us to present music that our instruments would routinely play in a church context. So what better examples than well known and loved hymn tunes? This year we are launching our new tutorial series called ‘Hymn of the Month’. So watch out for them each month. This month we… 
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