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Here at Viscount, a vitally important part of our job is to make sure we know each and every product inside and out, not just from an operational perspective, but also technical. Every now and then we will get a call or email from a customer informing us that their instrument has a problem which…
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We are living in an age where technology seems to be moving at a remarkable pace. I wonder if our Victorian forbears felt the same? I doubt it. Never before has technology so much entered our daily lives. Smart phones, video links and apps that allow us to turn off the home lights from far…
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This year we decided for the first time to attend the annual MTA conference. For us held conveniently near by at Bromsgrove School. The school campus is impressive, extending to near 100 acres with numerous buildings and sports facilities spread all over the large site. The Music Teachers’ Conference Trade Fair About 100 delegates from…
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Introducing our new 3D showcase of the Viscount showroom in Bicester. This is more than a 3D model. It’s all-in-one visualisation of our showroom, right in your web browser or virtual reality headset. Explore the 3D space below which includes information about our organs, videos and links to relevant pages on our website for more…
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For many churches finding an organist is a great challenge and having a regular organist to rely on each Sunday can be very difficult. Many churches rely on the generosity of several musicians who alternate to ensure the congregation have organ accompaniment each Sunday. Basic questions around the Choir Master Hymn Player One of the…
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It is almost 8 years now since we introduced the instruments based on Viscount’s unique software-based sound engine platform ‘Physis’. We launched the instruments with version 1.04 of the software and we have had 11 revisions with version 1.14.02 being the current edition as of November 2018. Upgraded your Envoy, Regent or Sonus instrument yet?…
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On a lovely April spring day, we had exclusive use of St Kenelm’s Church Enstone to film a much more detailed presentation of our popular Envoy 35-F church and home practice instrument. The particular model we used having been ‘upgraded’ to provide sub and super swell octave couplers. Francis Rumsey in charge As ever the…
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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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In what I think we would all agree is a slowly shrinking world of classical organs for either home or church use it is very encouraging to see two new partner companies enter the market. These are South Coast Organs owned and run by Mark Gatrell and Viscount Organs Wales owned and run by Tony…
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Many of you will have seen the 12 extensive videos that we have published setting out how to get the best from your Viscount ‘Physis’ organ. These are our Envoy, Regent and Sonus ranges. Some of you may well be pleased to know that the Viscount Chorum Organ Range based on the traditional ‘sampled sound’…
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It is a vexed question – how long should you expect a digital church organ to last and how do costs compare with repairing your pipe organ? On a great many occasions on social media I see comments that digital organs will last at best 15 years while a pipe organ lasts a life time….
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I write this on a slightly sad day having returned from playing for the funeral of my local church organist. She had reached the age of 80 and had played at St Mary’s Helmdon for almost 40 years. So another vacancy on the bench has opened up with precious few candidates willing or otherwise to…
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If like me you are rather addicted to the organ and its music you will have gone to considerable lengths to enjoy your hobby, passion or profession. And in some cases for us and our customers it is all three. Not disturbing the neighbours There are a small group of us who perhaps go beyond…
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I can hardly believe 5 years has passed since we produced our last demonstration DVD! Since then we have introduced 2 new organ ranges. New Chorum and Sonus range Chorum with a more detailed sample library has replaced the Cadet range of instruments. Specifically for home practice, the Sonus range with a greatly enlarged internal…
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The Cadet product range, our very successful home practice organs have remained substantially unchanged for the last 6 years. They are ‘sampled sound’ instruments with a library of voices from which customers can build their own style of organ if they so wish or just rely on the factory set designs available as starter points….
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In recent months, we have seen growing sales of the Viscount Cantorum VI keyboard. This has coincided with many posts on social media made by owners explaining just how useful and good this little instrument is. It struck me that the time was well overdue for us to make an ‘official’ presentation to help a…
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In April this year we had 22 new Viscount digital organs delivered to us here in Bicester. As most customers know our instruments are made by Viscount in the hillside town of Mondaino in the Le Marche region of Italy. Once a month a truck leaves Mondaino and three days later it arrives in Bicester. There…
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Viscount’s physical modelling platform – Physis explained Physis is a computer generated physical model of an organ pipe. This enables the Viscount Digital Organ to be manipulated in just the same way as a pipe voicer would approach an organ pipe. As most of our customers owning a physical modelling organ know these instruments allow a…
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Viscount have long had two strong dealers, Soundtec Classical Organs and Key Player, north of the border. Both are family businesses. On the East Coast just outside Edinburgh Key Player (previously Edinburgh Organ Studio) continues to be run by Kerr MacIntosh. Once on the Golden Mile they are now outside the city centre in Leith Walk and…
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With our organ audio management recently extended to be able to spread the stops over 28 independent audio channels plus bass we have extraordinary flexibility to manage sound delivery in your church or concert hall and so we have invested in developing speaker cabinets acoustically tuned to optimise the sound for individual stop families. As…
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We are passionate about organs and organ music and spend a good majority of our time supporting local, national and international organ events (both pipe and digital). As part of our ongoing drive for amazing music in the organ world, we are pleased to announce that we will be offering a years free membership of the…
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Music has long been used as therapeutic method to provide brain stimulating qualities to rehabilitation programmes to support people through injury, whether physical or mental. While we could share chapters on this subject – it is more relevant to highlight that the quality and perception of sound is very personal. While the perception of tonal…
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There are many factors to take into account when considering not only which digital organ to buy, but also which brand/make of organ to invest in. In this post we hope to highlight some the pertinent elements to weigh up based on our years of experience in digital organs, the technology behind them and what…
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We deal with a variety of different types of buyers in our industry, and in this post we give some insights into the differing needs for these groups of buyers and how we work with them. The Private Digital Organ Player This is the individual buyer who is expressly buying an organ for playing at…
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