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I have had it in mind for quite a long time to make a video to help potential customers understand the extraordinary ‘audio routing’ flexibility built into all Viscount ‘Physis’ based instruments. We have touched on this capability in videos covering a broader range of topics, but this facility is so helpful in building the…
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In this brief exposition of psalm singing, Ralph Allwood teaches the choir how to perform Psalm 126, to a chant by George Garrett. Garrett was Director of Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, between 1856 and 1897, and it is for this psalm chant that he is probably most widely known. As Ralph explains in…
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While there have been huge advances in ‘organ tone’ generation over the last 50 years I believe it fair to say there has not been a similar scale of improvement in speaker technology. This recent discovery shows that at least one person years ago was giving attention to the speaker end of the system. Perhaps…
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The time is nearly there for a repeat organ battle performance at Selby Abbey on September 2nd 2022 . Internationally renowned organists Martin Baker and John Scott Whiteley will be taking turns on the Abbeys magnificent Hill organ, recently restored by Principal Pipe Organs, and the digital Regent Classic that was used in Canterbury Cathedral…
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Our Wales partner retailer, Aspire Classical Organs is having a great time this week at the National Eisteddfod in Tregarron, Mid Wales. A good range of organs is available to play and you can also meet and listen to David Thomas, organist at Llandaff Cathedral demonstrate the wonderful sound of the Viscount Instruments. In addition…
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Around a year ago we were very honoured to be asked to provide an instrument to the chapel of Lambeth Palace. This was to provide accompaniment for services whilst a solution is found and funded for the small organ gallery space. Listen to Choral Evensong from Lambeth Palace on BBC Radio 3. This week, we…
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Before writing this blog I thought I would establish accurately the smallest size of hole a mouse can squeeze through and Youtube provided the answer at 15.5mm. If you are interested watch this quite scientific experiment demonstrating this. I am sure I had heard a mouse could get through a hole as small as a…
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Psalm 124 is sung here to two chants, one in D minor by Ivor Atkins, and another based on it but in D major, written by Ralph Allwood. The chants beautifully partner the words, in the first part expressing the drama in which the children of Israel imagine being swallowed up by the deep waters…
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We were pleased to receive a request from the Purcell School of Music to source a home practice instrument for a young Ukrainian boy who had recently arrived in London with his mother. They are staying with a family of another pupil at the school. The headmaster, Mr Paul Bamborough, happens to be a proficient…
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We have been asked by a church to find a new owner for their small 3 rank single manual and pedal pipe organ shown in the photographs. It was made in the 1970’s by renowned builder Peter Collins of Melton Mowbray for a home customer. The rather austere lattice front is a later addition that…
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The splendid Evening Hymn is arguably the best-known, and best, piece written by Henry Balfour Gardiner — apparently a great uncle of the present-day conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Such is the quality of this stirring anthem that it seems a pity we don’t have much else of note by Balfour Gardiner for church choirs…
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Organist Anna Lapwood makes Aldeburgh Festival debut playing Britten’s Four Sea Interludes in Snape Maltings Concert Hall, on a Regent Classic Organ. The Aldeburgh Festival 2022 is an extended, 24-day celebration of music and the arts. Programming strands include Britten and Women and a celebration of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at 50, and there are also…
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