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This is a post written by a young organ enthusiast, Anna Hallett. Anna is 13 years old and avidly blogs about her organ playing on her website Pipes Keys and Chords. We asked her to write this piece that encapsulates some of the challenges youngsters have in gaining playing time on an organ. Many young…
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Renowned concert organist, Jeremy Meager, performs seasonal music including Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’. A selection of music reflecting remembrance time by composers such as Elgar, Walton, Bach, Eric Coates, Franck and Parry. Sunday 11th November 2018 at 7.30 pm in Christ Church West Didsbury (Darley Avenue M20 2ZD). You can also find out more on the Church’s…
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On my way to New Zealand to install our largest yet Regent Classic Custom Organ I travelled via Hong Kong to meet some very accomplished organists there who have over time become ‘email friends’ and very occasional customers. This was a whistle stop visit with only 2 nights spent in Hong Kong but as luck…
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This is a post written by David Jeffers of Jeffers Music, our Viscount Organ dealer based in Ireland. He had a very exciting client story to share, so we’ve asked him to write this post for us. In Philadelphia back in August 2015 Pope Francis announced that the next World Meeting of Families, a Roman…
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I do not expect that many of us will have a clear memory of the first organ we ever heard, or perhaps even played. I can be fairly certain that for me it will have been the Llandaff Cathedral instrument sometime in 1960, as from the age of 5 I was a pupil at the…
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I was in the Minster twice last year. First in May for a delightful hour or so locked in alone with the Minster pipe organ and then in October to join a group celebrating the 100th birthday of former Minster organist Francis Jackson. Had I known at the time that we would be providing 2…
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I (Francis Rumsey) found myself in Dublin in late August, invited by Viscount’s Irish dealer David Jeffers to voice two rather different Physis-based organs that they had recently installed. The experience brought into sharp focus the differences between voicing a smallish organ in a modest church with limited reverberation, and a large one in a…
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Our fifth release in the Choral Accompaniment series is the delightful anthem “Thou visitest the earth” by Maurice Greene. For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the organ as a means of choral accompaniment. Church choral music was chosen to illustrate the accompaniment of various parts of the liturgy and to highlight some well-known…
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Over the weekend of 7-9 September about 10,000 people gathered in Liverpool for the largest Catholic procession in the UK since the late Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1982. They were attending the first National Eucharistic Congress in the country since 1908. The Catholic Church holds a Eucharistic Congress every three or four years…
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It has been a very demanding year for organ hires. In fact the demand seems to have no end in sight with two more just booked for September to cover pipe organ rebuilds in London and Bromley. From this insight into the ‘pipe organ world’ I would say that the work out there has never…
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Welcome to our fourth release of the Choral Accompaniment series which is a setting of Psalm 20, to an Anglican chant by Gerald Knight. For our 2018 tutorial series we’re concentrating on the organ as a means of choral accompaniment. Church choral music was chosen to illustrate the accompaniment of various parts of the liturgy…
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We thought that it would be helpful to provide a detailed run through of one of our more popular instruments, the Viscount Envoy 35-F, on a voice by voice basis. On the video produced you will hear almost all stops individually demonstrated and also their use in the choruses to which they belong. This will…
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