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Sixteen-year-old Ivan Deb has won the first Aprahamian Scholarship for young organists, which includes a brand new two-manuals-and-pedals home organ, on which he can practise. The Arabesque Trust, which set up the scholarship to help visually impaired young organists, has partnered with Viscount Classical Organs to provide Ivan with his own Chorum S40 instrument in…
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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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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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I was delighted to receive an invitation to attend a gathering of organ and church music enthusiasts for a special evensong service at the Chapel Royal St James’s Palace in November. I had been there many years before when Joseph Nolan was playing for a BBC 3 broadcast evensong to act as page turner. Unexpectedly…
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We are delighted to support St Edward’s College in Liverpool with a permanent loan instrument for the College Hall. The digital organ (Viscount Cadet 31) will allow their young organ students access to an instrument in school to practise and perform on. The organ will be used in assemblies, liturgies and concerts in the College…
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Viscount Organs are proud to support The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme by providing them with a loan instrument. We wrote back in 2016 how we were delighted to provide this programme with an Envoy 35-F organ to be used during organ lessons. The Diocese of Leeds Organists’ Training Programme was created in 2016…
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This is a post written by a young organ enthusiast, Anna Hallett. Anna is 13 years old and avidly blogs about her organ playing on her website Pipes Keys and Chords. We asked her to write this piece that encapsulates some of the challenges youngsters have in gaining playing time on an organ. Many young…
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On my way to New Zealand to install our largest yet Regent Classic Custom Organ I travelled via Hong Kong to meet some very accomplished organists there who have over time become ‘email friends’ and very occasional customers. This was a whistle stop visit with only 2 nights spent in Hong Kong but as luck…
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Organ Outreach Project gets our support The organ is a magnificent instrument to challenge both the technical and creative skills of any musician. Perhaps only the most gifted of students will master it but it will captivate and engage with all levels of skill. It is difficult not to be concerned for the future of…
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