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Yes, but like Compton pedalboards hinged this way, I have found that over a few months use they all work loose again!

........And many a Compton organ too has leathered Diapasons, and Flutes.

Indeed, Pierre. Such gentle 'unassumed' but beautifully musical playing.

I did it with Swindon Choral Society last year. They used hire copies. - Supplied the 2nd organ too. .....and unloaded it, drove the van, set it up, played it, loaded it up again, and took it home again afterward ..........long day!

Absolutely - and without music too - seriously impressive!

Where I am, the FD books the organist - the crematorium has nothing to do with it.

Taylor's business and the machines were transferred to Renatus in January 2004.

[/quote) However, some of the fairground/dance hall organ makers took ideas from the old "Pianola" type player-pianos; MM My firend, who has rebuilt player painos of all kinds for the last 40 or so years tells me that the last Duo Art pianolas (with sixteen levels of theme and accompaniment volume) worked on a range of between 8 and 37 inches SUCTION! The action on a well set up instrument would be far faster than any pneumatically operated pipe organ!

I agree, Cynic; definitely the exception rather than the rule!

...........A bloody good bottle of Port......

What was even better was that this report went out at prime time 6 o'clock news over the whole of the South of England!

I can't believe that people are still singing this dreadful drivel! ...........and that organists are still playing it!

That's funny because I have a friend who, when organist at a Presbyterian Church, used to drop a few grains upon the old parrafin stove next to the organ on occasions. They never did find out where the smell came from, apparently! The church is now a convenience store.

Carpet is for louge bars and private clubs. NOT for churches

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Indeed, even JSB was not averse to the odd transcription...........

.......I for one shall be sorry to see you go. Whilst some of the things you have said are somewhat 'challenging' you have often caused me some mirth, even on a otherwise dreary day at the office doing church/organ admin! At the very least you have not been afraid to speak your mind, and this is not always a bad thing, surely.........

Try the St Anne's Mass by James Macmillan. Works as a unison only mass. I used to use it for Sunday evening mass without choir. It can be done either responsorially or straight. Good enough for Westminster Cathedral's Saturday vigil mass, with 800 people and no cantor.

Whether shameless (or otherwise) self promotion is allowed or not, I care not! David, I'm really lookling forward to it - put me down for one!

Thank you all for your good wishes regarding my son and Christ Church Cathedral Oxford. I am utterly confident that he couldn't have a better start in his musical life, and the manifold messages of congratulations (both public and private) have been wonderfully heartwarming. The staff at the Cathedral and the School have been SO very welcoming and accomodating. The Cathedral may be perhaps one of the smallest in the UK, but the welcome and the friendliness from everyone within is the biggest in the world! Incidentally, I had no idea that there were so many 'old boys' contributing to this August list. Thank you all so much once again!

I agree, a CD properly labelled with a booklet is a tangible thing to treasure for years to come. A music 'download' is, er, not. As for the quality, I won't even go there. Popular music doesn't really matter, especially when used in car at 70mph on the motorway, but for anyone listening to quality full-range complicated orchestral/organ/vocal music on a half decent Hi-Fi system there's a huge difference. Those with a really good system would not even touch a 'download'.

Absolutely - this is church music of the very lowest order! DREADFUL!

Barry, leaving comments like this are not really helpful are they? I'm sure that those of you 'in the know' might understand them, but for those of us in the 'provinces', they mean absolutely nothing at all. Might I request that, unless you are going to expand and draw us all in to the discussion, you refrain from this 'elitest' style of posting, unless it is your intention to, like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us shite.

David is absolutely right, and his take on this is how pretty much any organ which I have played has conformed.