gazman
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St. Matthew's, Walsall (see http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...c_index=N03192) was rebuilt in 1953 with a 4-manual stopkey console - a picture of which can be found at http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/PSearch...N03192&no=2 - which was retained in a rebuild in the late 90s by Nicholson.
I couldn't get the link for St. Matthew, Walsall to work. Try this instead:- http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch...ec_index=N03192
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Here is my spec:
Great Organ
1 Double Open Diapason 16 A
2 LGE Open Diapason 8
3 SML Open Diapason 8
4 Clarabella 8
5 Principal 4
6 Wald Flute 4
7 Twelfth 2 2/3
8 Fifteenth 2
9 Mixture III (17.19.22)
10 Tromba 8
JA
Interesting spec. I wonder what it would sound like!
I find it useful to have an accompanimental stop on each manual, in order to accompany solo stops on other departments. I wonder if the Clarabella might not be effective in this capacity, and wonder if one of the Diapasons (or the 32' reed) might be omitted in favour of a Dulciana or a Stopped Diapason on the Great.
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Thanks everyone for the good advice.
I don't think that the vicar would agree to having the video fee automatically charged, alas. When he agreed several years ago to charge RSCM rates for weddings, it was done reluctantly as he was concerned that potential wedding couples would be put off coming to church to be married if they had to pay more for it.
At last week's wedding, he announced to the congregation that camcorders should not be used "due to copyright", but I guess Auntie Maude could still be hiding her camcorder away under her cardigan!
I still like the idea of a blanket double fee, though......
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Oh, dear ....
... try this instead:
Thank you. That was a delightful way to finish my evening before going to bed.
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I liked this quote from Dr Martin Ashley of the University of the West of England and head of the community choir "Bristol Voices":
"My point of view has always been that, if you lose men and boys from singing, you’re losing men and boys from culture and this is actually quite a serious issue. … You talk to the boys who do this singing. They love it. Don’t, whatever you do, give them give them silly little happy-clappy songs to sing ’cause they will hate you. They love their Palestrina: it’s timeless – and it’s a tragedy that children are not being given the opportunity to sing it."
This is a very good point. Quite a few years ago - when I was in my teens - I took on a church job where there was a remnant of a choir, no Sunday school, and absolutely no young people in the church. After a lot of hard work I built up a very good choir, and recruited a good number of youngsters. The vicar then decided that - because we now had a number of children in the choir - the church should introduce happy-clappy hymns "for the youngsters' benefit", despite my protestations that these youngsters were actually enjoying singing traditional hymnody, and an anthem each Sunday.
So, he spent the annual year's allocation of funds set aside for the purchase of music scores on the purchase of a set of happy-clappy hymn books. Most of the hymns were then chosen from this book, and he insisted that most of the anthems were replaced by worship songs too! Very shortly after this, the children (with much greater discernment than the adults, certainly more discernment than the vicar) complained to me that the new music was "rubbish", and asked when they could go back to singing something decent again. They also said the same thing to the vicar, who wouldn't listen.
Unfortunately, things got so bad that I decided it was time for me to move on. When I left, all the children left and most of the choir disbanded. A good opportunity for the recruitment of young choristers - and tomorrow's adult singers - had been lost, and the youngsters were denied the opportunity to learn and to sing music which had so moved them.
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Well they'd better start working on their technique.
"Don't just shuffle those feet honey.....dance with them!"
MM
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My 7 & 8 year olds would go for this - especially the take away pipes bit and the page turning. (They do have a digital in their front room already so I suppose they are rather spoilt in that department).
AJJ
Somebody's going to propose doing a Virgil Fox "Heavy Organ" soon!
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I was under the impression that the state-of-the-art toaster in New York City's Trinity Church, Wall Street cost significantly more than £100K.
Crumbs!
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......I'm not convinced, however, that spending around £100k an all singing and dancing toaster is the solution either, when a perfectly reasonable digital instrument could have been purchased for half of the cost.
This isn't how much it cost, is it?
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The Apostrophe is quite the least of their worries I think - I've never read such a lot of bull in my life. Nonsense.
David Wyld.
Hear, hear!
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There's one on YouTube:- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeOA1Dg9f0 This is a continental version of the instrument and, unfortunately, doesn't demonstrate any of the quiter registers which are really rather pleasing. Viscount's English website also has some downloads available, but not of the Prestige series it seems.
There are also some samples on http://www.prestigeorgans.com/SITE_PAGES/E...Library_ENG.htm but these aren't actually very good!
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Any chance a viscount prestigue owner can post an audio clip/video on youtube or similar?
There's one on YouTube:- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeOA1Dg9f0 This is a continental version of the instrument and, unfortunately, doesn't demonstrate any of the quiter registers which are really rather pleasing. Viscount's English website also has some downloads available, but not of the Prestige series it seems.
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Imagine you are involved in a fatal car crash and you wake up on the 'other' side to the strains of this. Are you in Heaven or Hell?
Hell...definitely! At an organists' association meeting, a priest once asked me what a collection of organists might be called. Hearing what was going on at that time on the organ in his church, I suggested "A cacophony of organists". I think this is apt for this video!
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Unfortunately I don't have a partner so at night if I turn all the lights off and just rely on the glow from my Viscount machine, I feel a bit like the Phantom of the Opera....
I think he died a few weeks after releasing Christine and Raoul, so doubt he's available.
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Very impressed with Viscount Prestige. Current models are very good. I just love the light-up drawstop. You can play these organs in the dark. Perfect for those romantic evenings in on the organ.
So what sort of romantic evenings do you have in with your organ then?
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Whilst most people thus far seem to have Wyverns, I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and confess to owning a Viscount Prestige, with which I'm very pleased by the way!
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Shame on you! You should learn the pedal part. It is not that difficult.
Barry Williams
I played it for my FTCL - in the style of Virgil Fox!!!
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I get someone else to do that!
AJJ
Good idea! There are several anecdotes about the fugue which could almost start their own topic in this forum....!
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And to those like me who need to 'cheat' at the start of the Bach P in D major!!
AJJ
Yeah, but what about the fugue??!
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Do I need to do so? One has only to take a cursory glance at, for example, the Church Times, the 'Ship of Fools' website, or the reported comments of various bishops to gain the impression that its mainstream has run its course.
No need, in my personal view, to get involved.
Yep, the Ship of Fools website has caused me much amusement! Just hope neither of my churches get visited.....
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One does wonder!
So I can't encourage you to elucidate your observation, then?!
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If it be construed from this that I do not take the C of E seriously, then that would be accurate. It seems to be intent, with ever accelerating gusto, on turning itself into a farce.
How come?
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But not on any Wyvern I suspect.
AJJ
Nope, guess not!!
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