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Partita super Merton Chapel, Magdalena Pemberton and Péter Szeles

05/07/2021 by Francis Rumsey

This splendid partita is taken from An Oxfordshire Organ Book, published in 2019 by the Oxford and District Organists’ Association. (You can find out more about this collection of pieces in the general introduction to this year’s organ tutorials.) The partita is based on a hymn tune, Merton Chapel, which was written by Maggie Pemberton…
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Organ Performance Tutorials 2021

01/07/2021 by Francis Rumsey

Better late than never, thanks to a pandemic that some of you may have heard of, we bring you Viscount’s organ performance tutorials for 2021. This series concentrates on recent works by composers associated with the Viscount showroom’s local area of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. You will get tips about playing each of the pieces from…
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Organ loan enquiry – Helping an organ student with an instrument

28/05/2021 by David Mason

If you read our blog or follow us on social media, you will know that we have been able to help a number of young organists over the last year with home practice instruments. The pandemic has prevented many students and organists from using instruments in churches as they would normally do. Our practice instruments…
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Leicester MusicFest – Organ Competitions 2021

18/05/2021 by David Mason

Leicester MusicFest was founded in 2016 by a team of professional musicians and teachers who wanted to create more high-quality and accessible performance opportunities for young people and amateur musicians in Leicester. At each festival over 200 musicians take part in a varied programme including concerts, educational workshops and competitions in piano, singing, pipe organ, classical guitar…
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Organ Hire for Old Royal Naval College Chapel

11/05/2021 by David Mason

Unusually on a Sunday morning I was sat at home close to my phone when a Facebook Message popped up from Jonathan Eyre (Chapel Organist at Old Royal Naval College) asking if we could provide a hire organ in the Chapel the next day. That might be challenge enough for most companies but the next…
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Peterhouse Cambridge Organ Installation – Cambridge 3 Oxford Nil

01/05/2021 by David Mason

The musical world is slowly waking up and it was lovely on a very sunny Friday to travel to Cambridge to voice and regulate a Viscount Organ in a very special location. Oxford and Cambridge must due to the large number of college chapels possibly have the greatest number of pipe organs to the square…
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Derby Cathedral Organ Hire

26/04/2021 by David Mason

The ailing state of the large Compton Organ at Derby Cathedral is well known in the organ community and so readers will expect this blog to be about a hire triggered by the failure of this instrument. Many will be relieved to learn the Compton limps on and it was the failure of the Cousans…
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RCO International Organ Day & The Organ Show

20/04/2021 by David Mason

Organs, organ music and organists around the world will be celebrated in a week of online broadcasts leading up to interNational Organ Day on Saturday 24 April. With global pandemic restrictions still in place, The Royal College of Organists (RCO) has turned interNational Organ Day 2021 into a fully online event, and made it the…
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Another delivery of organs – Are things just a little out of hand?

30/03/2021 by David Mason

Many importers were rightly worried that Brexit would seriously disrupt goods flow from Europe into the UK and we were among those concerned. We took steps to ensure the warehouse was full pre-Christmas and achieved that rather well. But not as well as we did earlier this week! This is our second post Brexit delivery…
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John Scott Whiteley at Selby Abbey –
“Paths that lead away from Bach”

18/03/2021 by David Mason

In 2015 we recorded a series of performances by John Scott Whiteley, for a DVD entitled “Paths that lead away from Bach”. The sessions took place in the dramatic setting of Selby Abbey, where a Viscount Regent 356 organ was temporarily installed while the Abbey’s famous Hill organ was being restored. John Scott Whiteley English…
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Practice organ supporting organ outreach scheme – Holy Trinity School in Ramsgate

12/03/2021 by Richard Patt

If you have read our most recent blogs, you will know that we have been delighted to be able to help a number of young organists over the last year with home practice instruments. This is because Covid has prevented them from using instruments in churches as they would normally. Our practice instruments have been…
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Long Distance Support – A resounding success story from Australia

04/03/2021 by David Mason

Australia as a continent is no stranger to managing the huge distances involved to make society work. As early as 1928 the country established the Flying Doctor Service which as far as I know remains a unique Australian feature of life. So I was hopeful for this and a few other reasons that customers in…
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