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Or a Hauptwerk sample set of an organ compared with the real organ, live, in the same building - a "battle of the organs". Did they do that in Salisbury when they, I think, had a hauptwerk installed using the Salisbury sample set?

What is "pedal movements" listed among the couplers on the church website?

Possibly St Patrick's Cathedral in Dundalk or even St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin though that organ was finished after the great man's death. I note that the organ is tuned to Valotti temperament.

Apparently not!

It was in G on the Radio service - at least on "catch up" in 'sounds' it is.

Yes, but so many? No carols to my mind till 4 lessons and 34 minutes in: just Christmas anthems and hymns.

I watched the programme "King Charles lll, the Coronation Year" which spent a very long time going through the tiniest details of the preparation for the Coronation; the Gospel Choir was featured but there was no mention at all the the cathedral musicians or Pappano. Extraordinary.

It is very well produced - it looks and feels very like NEH - though thicker. so there might be problems with it staying open.

I have been looking through this book and there are lots of new hymns and new tunes. The tunes seem pretty good though I've only glanced through them. I wonder how many will catch on. However I wonder if the book will mainly be of use to cathedrals and the more rarified churches. In my church we have a diet of fairly traditional hymns (I choose them) but even we sing many that the Revised EH doesn't include. It seems to me to be the complete opposite of Hymns Old and New: it included everything regardless of quality but this new book seems to me to have gone to the opposite extreme. Here are a few hymns it doesn't have which I think are sung by most churches; would they want to buy a new set of books that excluded them? I realise that I'm probably in a minority of one and that organists here will applaud the insistence on musical standards, and I'm not saying that I personally like many of the following: As the deer pants for the water Beauty for brokenness Brother, sister, let me serve you From heaven you came, helpless babe Give me joy in my heart I, the Lord of sea and sky In Christ alone (I know there are theological problems with this) Make me a channel of your peace Meekness and majesty O Lord my God (How great thou art) Seek ye first the kingdom Shine, Jesus, shine When I needed a neighbour

It's arrived (from the RSCM). Beautifully printed and bound. At first glance it doesn't seem that exciting.

I'm sure that's right, though it hadn't occurred to me. You can't really blame them, I suppose, they can't have expected such a lengthy delay. They haven't been very honest about it, though, and it's not as if they don't make plenty of money out of us all!

I ordered it 2 years ago from Amazon. They kept giving me revised delivery dates but this morning told me the order was cancelled due to "a lack of availability". What's going on now? Edit: sorry I see Martin Cooke has just posted the same thing!

The melody edition being rushed out on the 30th April (according to the Amazon website)

That's good to know, Steve - I was beginning to wonder!

Has anyone got a copy yet? I ordered it, years ago, from Amazon. Last week they told me it was coming before 11 pm on Friday, but now say it's currently unavailable!