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Last Saturday I dropped my phone and smashed the screen. So careless of me but as the phone was 6 years old I was pretty philosophical about it as a trigger to get the latest all singing and dancing iPhone Apple had to offer. By mid-Monday after about 4 calls with my network provider, each…
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There are very few bonuses flowing from this pandemic in the world of performing arts. So it has been a very welcome sight to see many performers grasp the opportunities the internet provides using social media to present music to us while our concert halls and churches are closed. It’s probably fair to say that…
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The last six months have seen a marked increase in the level of interest in home practice organs, both new organs and pre-loved used organs. In the main, this has been fuelled by churches being closed due to Covid, which has meant that without a practice organ, many organists will not have been able to…
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We recently supplied and installed a new digital organ in St Mary & St John the Divine Balham. We replaced a 3 manual Makin pictured above installed in the early 1990’s. This instrument had done well over 25 years’ service but had been deemed beyond economic repair by a visiting engineer. About 4 stops would…
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Ever since I was a very young child I have gone to bed with a radio on all night at low level. In the beginning this was a tiny Perdio Radio that I would take under the covers so my parents in a nearby room were not aware I was still awake. Eventually of course…
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Those of you who are regular readers of our blog posts may remember an earlier story about young Leicestershire organist Dominic Remedios. He was keen to try for a Cambridge organ scholarship but desperately needed an instrument to practise on at home. Always keen to help young organists progress with their studies, we agreed a…
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The fifth piece in the 2020 organ tutorial series is Pachelbel’s famous (some might say infamous) Canon in D. For reasons that probably have a lot to do with Classic FM, movies, and wedding websites, it has become a firm favourite for the bridal procession at weddings. It was the hilarious topic of a sketch…
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James Parsons invites students, friends and organ enthusiasts for an inspirational organ day at St Mary’s and All Saints’ in Fotheringhay. It is an opportunity to unlock the secrets of the organ but also to unlock your organ playing skills. During this fun and exciting day full of organ music you will: Play to each…
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In August 2020 we delivered a new Chorum 40 organ to Prendiville Catholic College. The organ was shipped from the UK to our dealer in Perth, Western Australia for final delivery to the school. We are of course hoping this will inspire students at the school to take up this magnificent instrument and give them…
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The fourteenth annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert will be given by Margaret Phillips FRCO ARCM at 8pm in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday 29 September 2020 and streamed live online this year due to the pandemic (no physical attendance will be possible). Ms Phillips will play an hour-long programme of organ works by Bach, Böhm,…
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In 2019 we were invited to quote for the organ that would be required after the complete rebuilding of the Methodist Church in Driffield East Yorkshire. It’s not often in a career that one has the opportunity of working with a brand new church building. It is therefore quite remarkable that this organ installation followed…
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In an earlier blog on the Grand organ of Westminster Cathedral David Mason reminded us that “the organist is so very often in the worst possible place to enjoy the sound he [or she] is creating”. This is commonly because the console is en fenetre, as at my home church in Abbots Langley and in…
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