bombarde32
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If any reader has a problem with a light pedal spring on a HN&B console such as described here, these can usually be very quickly remedied because unlike most firms' designs, the method HN&B used was a spring steel plate at the tail (i.e. heel end) of the key. These are held over a pivot point, so all you have to do to get a firmer feel is tighten the back screw.
Yes, but like Compton pedalboards hinged this way, I have found that over a few months use they all work loose again!
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As far as I know, some Harrisons still have theirs...
Pierre
........And many a Compton organ too has leathered Diapasons, and Flutes.
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Another SPLENDID one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDa1L8XspQ...feature=related
(Handkershief necessary before starting that one!)
Pierre
Indeed, Pierre. Such gentle 'unassumed' but beautifully musical playing.
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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!
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Quite astonishing!!
Such variety of colour and dynamics. Incredible. A very moving performance too - he understands this piece better than some organists I could mention!Absolutely - and without music too - seriously impressive!
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Usually the Crematorium engages and pays the organist.
Barry Williams
Where I am, the FD books the organist - the crematorium has nothing to do with it.
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I suspect that few of us are fond of toggle touch drawstops. I have played plenty of EP organs that don't have this - H&H most notably. They used to have their drawstop solenoids made by Taylors, I think, and very nice they were too, with a deep draw and a a good 'feel'. I don't think Taylor's are still in businesss, so I don't know where they go now.
Stewart Taylor
Taylor's business and the machines were transferred to Renatus in January 2004.
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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!
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Now there is a vicar who knows what he's doing and why.
Lucky you!
I agree, Cynic; definitely the exception rather than the rule!
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...........A bloody good bottle of Port......
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Indeed - this was a good report; and, I should think, an exciting time ahead for Chichester. I also wish Sarah well in her new job.
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!
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You will find that much of this music is nested in with the various, mainly dreadful, settings to be found at the front or back of the various Kevin Mayhew 'Hymns Old & New' series of books.
Hope this helps!
I can't believe that people are still singing this dreadful drivel!
...........and that organists are still playing it!
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A certain organist of my acquaintance once amused himself during the sermon by trickling incense on to the naked 150w bulb that lights the pedalboard - in a church that can just bring itself to tolerate incense twice a year.
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.
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Carpet is for louge bars and private clubs.
NOT for churches
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............ but assuming most are going to be sold in the Abbey shop (does Jeremy Filsell work there - sorry, another post!)
R
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Top Man!!
Indeed, even JSB was not averse to the odd transcription...........
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Firstly, my apologies for my comments in the John Rutter thread. I didn't think I was being that contraversial in that thread but I guess some people didn't see it that way.
.......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.........
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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.
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I'll probably refrain from advertising here out of respect for others with CD's who manage to restrain themselves from total shameless self promotion... having said that, it will be available before Christmas at a very reasonable price! Like Sean's, Andrew Post (Vif Records) has done the producing and editing (not tooooo much of the latter...) and I think he's got the sound perfect.
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!
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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!
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The disappointing things about digital downloads are:
-the quality is far inferior to the CD itself
-you don't get the booklet and presentation part of the deal. I know you can download the covers (and in some cases the pdfs of the booklet notes), but its not the same
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'.
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A thorne in your side, perhaps?
Absolutely - this is church music of the very lowest order!
DREADFUL!
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Please read my post. I did not refer to problems, merely to 'an unusual and possibly difficult situation, notwithstanding the repertoire.'
Barry Williams
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.
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I must admit, like others I was a little surprised at this. There are instruments almost beyond counting where the pedal organ contains an Open Diapason of 16, an Octave (or Principal) of 8 and a Fifteenth of 4. Often Clarions are 8 and some builders use, for instance, Stopped Diapason 16 and Trumpet 16. I have always supposed from this that a Pedal Mixture labelled 15.19.22 will begin with a pipe of 4 feet.
To say that such logic must make all Pedal couplers octave couplers is hard to defend when you consider the Werkprinzip idea that you would find a stop named Prinzipal at varying pitches throughout the organ - 16 Ped, 8 HW, 4 BW, 2 RP for instance.
David is absolutely right, and his take on this is how pretty much any organ which I have played has conformed.
Such variety of colour and dynamics. Incredible. 
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