AJJ

Ditto and good to have you back on here. AJJ

And his wife Hazel. AJJ

Nice to see Emma Kirkby was given a mention too. AJJ

I tend to agree - even though I am not a great fan of Tavener's music. AJJ

Now arrived - thanks! AJJ

Nice one - though I'd add a II-I Suboctave and a couple of Tremulants for added flexibility. AJJ

The console obviously sounds as if it needs rationalising - I'd also go for the Celeste/Larigot substitution (Larigots should really go with the other mutations not on their own) and maybe the reinstatement of the 16' flue on the swell if the space is still there. 'Not sure about the 16 Oboe but I'd probably put it back to 8' - especially so if it were minus its bass octave in its present transposition. If Thurlow was involved then maybe keep the voicing. I also have a feeling that there is enough 'neoclassical' in the same general geographical location as this church for one not to need to go any further in that direction with this one. AJJ

I wonder what they are using for this. AJJ

I need a copy of Samuel Scheidt - 'Echo ad manuale duplex' - can anyone help please? PM if you want. Cheers AJJ

Not Octave and Suboctave couplers but.............

It was pretty good when I was there - just before - the Turner Sims Hall 'arrived' and during - the organ went in. AJJ

I've not played or heard it since I left so it might sound different to me now also more than 30 years on. AJJ

But when it arrived in the the late '70s it was so much better than anything that most of us organist undergrads. had encountered that certainly from my POV it was a revalation. Chiff aside - suddenly all the Bach and Buxtehude etc. came so much more alive tonally with a reasonable action connected to it as well. It needs to be seen as a product of it's time. Professor Peter Evans who designed it aimed for the very best he could get then and it was certainly well received by the likes of Hurford, Weir, Kee etc. who played recitals. AJJ

A pity their website doesn't seem to work - at least on my pc anyway. AJJ

Reminds me of the birds popping out of the pipes in one of the episodes of Dad's Army!! AJJ

I have just found that too - not enough Googling before my first post I think. Allegro Music over here can get it from Masters Music's UK agent - maybe a bit quicker than OHS - certainly by past experience. Thanks again though. AJJ

Thanks for this. AJJ

Try this as a start: http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.danance/chorg/vatorg.html AJJ

I would like to buy/borrow a copy of Distler's 30 Pieces for Small Organ or Other Keyboard Instruments - Op. 18 No.1 - can anyone help please? It used to be published by Bärenreiter but seems to be out of print now - an Organists' Review article from 2004 gives the publisher as Masters Music (no M2061) but I can not find trace of this either. PM if needs be. Thanks. AJJ

I agree - but Interestingly - Margaret Philips recently recorded Mendelssohn (Regent label I think) and went to Germany to find the right sounds - maybe Fatcat can help here. (I also have a very fine set of the Sonatas recorded by Thomas Murray on organs by various incarnations of the Hook family in the USA). AJJ

I could do with a complete Mendelssohn - any details please Nigel? AJJ

These are really good too: The Art of Fugue - Regis Allard (Hortus 039) Daybreak - Music by Buxtehude - David Kinsela (Organ O - ORO106) http://www.organo.com.au/frame_cds.html (The rest of Kinsela's site is quite interesting too) AJJ

The only experience I have had of anything like this was the reverse of the above. A competent but particularly entrenched DOM/Assistant 'partnership' frequently refusing to consider many opinions but their own and at times making life decidedly hard for a sucession of open minded and generally charitably disposed 'priest plus wardens' set ups. AJJ

Me too - keeping in mind also how much the congregation needs 'encouraging' and the general acoustic of where I am playing. AJJ

This makes interesting reading following this thread to it's ultimate limits perhaps. AJJ