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  1. Does anyone have experience of marking organ pipes with smart water> Round to back of the languid would seem to the best place for large prospect pipes.
  2. A superb instrument, without doubt. I did a visiting choir weekend there about ten years ago. I loved the organ but it kept going wrong - restoring a very temperamental pneumatic action design was surely not a sensible idea. I hope we'd know better nowadays.
  3. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
  4. I've just noticed that Marie Claire-Alain, in her YouTube performance, omits at the bottom of the penultimate page the quiet recit passage and the following repetition of the rather tricky left hand passage and jumps straight to the Tutti conclusion section. Does anyone know why and is this common practice?
  5. Being provocative: were Hope Jones's organs any more useless for choir and hymn accompaniment than some of the instruments that were built in the sixties and seventies?
  6. I've played for a few visiting choir weekends at Gloucester. I would say: for 'fine instrument' read 'fine acoustic'. Watch this space!
  7. We were chorister parents when Richard started the girls' choir. Our children (one boy and one girl at that time) adored him. In his completely unassuming way he had his choir at the tips of his fingers. A legend.
  8. Someone told me today that the spectacular solo strings that HW3 added in the 30s were actually Wurlitzer ranks. Anyone know if there is any truth in this?
  9. Oh dear, this looks like the sort of specification that people drew up in the sixties. And again we see that fundamental mistake of a Swell division with no 8ft Diapason. Only two significant 8ft manual flue stops on an instrument of this size, and one of those derived from the pedal? Really? Oh dear. Space is presumably limited but is the solution to pile upperwork on to limited foundation tone? I shudder to think what the 'Herald Trumpet' will sound like if it ever gets installed. Perhaps when I hear it I will eat my words but I have a horrible feeling .........
  10. Returning to the topic, there is a faculty application, approved by the DAC, on the Diocese of Chichester website to remove the St Peter's organ 'to a builder's workshop for subsequent installation in St John's College Cambridge'.
  11. Sorry - a supplementary question. One of Charles Drane's quoted sources is the A.G Hoar Collection. Who was A.G. Hoar and where is his collection now? Nothing on Google about him either.
  12. Does anyone know who Charles Drane was? His notebooks were a source of information in the early days of NPOR (reference 'CD') but are not listed as being in the British Organ Archive. An internet search has produced nothing. He is mentioned in passing in a few places in this forum. So who was he, and where are his notebooks now?
  13. Thank you, gentlemen, for this useful food for thought although the Saffron Walden scheme is very much more extensive than I have in mind. Nevertheless the information is very helpful. What we might offer is on a much smaller scale - just three or four services a month and tuition provided elsewhere by others much better qualified than I. There is little opportunity in our part of West Sussex, as far as I know, for young aspiring organists apart from St Mary Portsea (again on a completely different scale). We would like to do something to address that, but it's not grand.
  14. I play at a village church with functioning SATB choir including juniors, middle-of-the road Eucharistic services including anthems, voluntaries and improvisations, congregations of 75+ who really sing the hymns and a very fine Tickell organ. I have had one or two enquiries from up-and-coming young organists about the possibility of an organ scholarship. I'd like to encourage this as I think we could offer really useful experience but I have no idea what the going rate is for this type of arrangement in a small parish church. These would typically be people in their final year of school or first year of college/university and would probably be around during term time only. In my last church we paid choral scholars £100 per term. Is this the right sort of number do you think? All advice/comment gratefully received.
  15. For all you experts out there: sorry to be such an ignoramus, but I've been trying to find out where I can buy Dupre's arrangement of this piece and I can't seem to track it down. Also, I believe that Guilmant also arranged it although most people seem to play the Dupre one. Any comments on the relative merits of the two?
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