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This is certainly true: http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Kod-ly-Zoltan-Organoedia/620933. I have two recordings of this version (an old Hungarian LP and a 2006 CD from a church in Massachusetts). Paul

Too many Paul H's here, it seems! Paul

ebay has several at around £30: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw="oxford+psalter"&_sacat=0 Paul

At one of our cathedrals - Lincoln perhaps? - I was able to take my dogs (two) round with me when visiting. Paul

Though it was also reported that they were asking if people would give up their bookings. Paul

The sample set was commercially made while he was there, and is available to buy. But he constructed his own replica of the console to play it from, which they used while the blower room was being repaired. Paul

It's also not in 2-5 (I have 1-6). Paul

"Clutch and windshield" looks like meaning "coupling/connection to the windchest". I.e. the top three keys of the pedalboard are dummies. "Mechanical trolley" is presumably just "mechanical action". Paul

Yes, it's dialect. Here's a translation: https://americangeissbock.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/by-special-request-mer-stonn-zo-dir-fc-kolle-our-hymn-in-english/

It's Loch Lomond. When I was at primary school, it was what the teacher who could play the piano played for us to walk in and out of assembly to, so it got pretty ingrained!

I was interested to note this paragraph at the end: Paul

But is that not a well-known Scottish tune? Paul

My wife has been largely deaf from childhood. In her 40s I persuaded her to change from relying on lip-reading and old NHS aids to having top-end in-ear ones. She started with some from Resound, which proved the point but turned out to be embarrassingly likely to fall apart - I got quite adept with the superglue! We also had trouble with their agents back then, which their European MD sorted effectively. But since then she has had Siemens aids. Her current ones cost about £4,000, I think. They have a number of programs for different environments, including one for music which as a music lover she finds well worth-while in most circumstances. She only has to set one aid, as they communicate. She also has a Phonak device which hangs around her neck and translates between Bluetooth and whatever the aids detect, which can link them to her phone for use as a radio (she can be listening to the radio without any visible or audible clue, which before I got used to it led to some strange interactions) - it also has a built-in microphone, but that's not as good as the aids themselves.

Hmm. I live only a few streets away - perhaps I could try knocking on the door! (Though I'd leave it till the new year.) Paul

I have the Mirabilis recording of St Mary's Warwick on which Andrew Fletcher uses both parts of that divided organ together to good effect on several tracks. Paul