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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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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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On occasion, we have a need to divide an organ console into two sections to allow it to be placed into the customers chosen room. While the pedal boards detach as a matter of routine there are times when doors are too narrow or stairs turn through 90 degrees and the console will just not…
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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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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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Earlier this year we received our largest ever enquiry for 20 single manual instruments to replace a variety of older instruments from various manufacturers used in the UGLE meeting rooms. Needless to say this was an exciting prospect and we duly sharpened our pencil and were delighted to have the order confirmed in the spring….
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OUR CADET RANGE OF INSTRUMENTS PROVIDE THE IDEAL AND AFFORDABLE HOME PRACTICE SOLUTION PRACTICE WHEN YOU WANT IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COMPLETE RANGE AND CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW TO FIND YOUR NEAREST DEALER
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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Note – Visit the Used Organs section of our website to find the latest used church organs for sale. For information on any of these organs, please call David Jeffers (one of our distributors) on 00 353 455 8600 (near Cork in Ireland).
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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In writing this article, we are trying to use our many years experience of digital organs to set out the major factors you should consider when choosing the supplier and instrument, whether this is for home practice, church or concert hall use.
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