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MikeK

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  1. I wonder if it is the same Viscount that was installed temporarily in Winchester Cathedral earlier this year? I didn’t like the sound there also!
  2. An interesting topic & pertinent to my own experience. I recently changed my Phonac hearing aids to Oticon ones, on the recommendation of my hearing specialist. These are superior to my previous aids in all respects, bar one, organ music! Anything above around 400hz has a tremolo effect, which has so far proved impossible to remove, despite various tweaks by my hearing specialist & Oticon. I am awaiting the next tweak! In the meantime I resort to my old Phonac aids when playing or listening to the organ.
  3. Surely, the equipment installer can advise you the best monitor?
  4. I realise you stated you would be happy with the digital time delay, however, other players, your successor might not be. Trying to follow a conductor whose beat can be seconds ahead of you is fraught with difficulties. Cannot a ‘stand alone’ analogue system be installed?
  5. I will admit to feeling uneasy about honours being awarded to people for just being good at their job. Surely we should all be striving to do that? An award for services beyond the call of duty I can live with.
  6. Any decent DIY shop should be able to supply suitable blocks to your measurements.
  7. D. Cecil Williams was organist at St. Mary’s, Southampton from 1936 until the 1970’s. He was responsible for the installation of the new organ in the rebuilt church, which had a remarkable likeness in specification to The instrument in All Souls, Langham Place, both being built by Willis111 around the same time.
  8. Perhaps the new incumbent will continue the tradition?
  9. I beg to differ! I thought the Parry balance was about right, bearing in mind what you hear is what the sound engineer wants you to hear. Microphone placement is critical & the only way to really judge the balance is to be there & experience it live, not through a set of speakers.
  10. I seem to remember being told that when the organ was worked on in 1990, a condition attached to a grant given by English Heritage(?) stipulated that the action was restored & not altered. I wonder if any such conditions have been attached to the proposed works?
  11. How refreshing to hear a Choral Matins this morning from Ipswich. Well sung with ‘proper’ music, & a sermon worth listening to for a change!
  12. I fear that a lot of the skill needed to be a good organist has been lost over the past 20 years or so, one such skill was the ability to adjust ones playing to suit the building & acoustics. Console management, or the lack of it, is partly to blame in my opinion. At a recent recital I attended, the whole program was played on one manual with all registration & manual changes being done with the aid of an assistant pressing the sequencer advance piston. Even the music was on an iPad, with pages being ‘turned’ by a piston! The management skills of organists like Harry Gabb, for example are now in short supply & sadly missed.
  13. Anyone know what is happening here? The church has been 'adopted' by HT Brompton & my spy tells me there are organ pipes stored in the south aisle. Let's hope that the long awaited rebuild of this Willis 111 is underway. I have a soft spot for this organ, having had lessons here from D Cecil Williams, which culminated in me taking up music professionally in the late 1960s
  14. This house has been on the market for some time & was the subject of earlier web discussion.
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