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Amazing! But what's it like to play with all that inertia? :angry: Paul

For acute accents on vowels, Windows accepts <Alt Gr>+vowel as a simple shortcut. I've not discovered any other shortcuts, so either use the character mapper or type the decimal code of the letter while holding down <alt>. Paul

Which makes it rather a good idea to treat its value as a concert hall as more important than preserving the visual details of an acoustically badly flawed design. I have seen in many workplaces the result of architects putting appearance before function. The hall as built was deader than anyone intended or expected. Radical change is what has been required to (hopefully) cure that. If it performs as designed it should be a better environment for the organ, and more like what it was originally expected to speak into. If this is not so, then the refurbishment will have been a failure, not just in other people's terms, but in its own. Paul

I just can't get my head around why someone would want to make, let alone publish, a video of such mucking around; it's even stranger if they are then going to be sensitive about comments. Paul

It's worth browsing the forum on the Crumhorn Labs site. There are many accounts of people's building or setting up systems, from random MIDI keyboards (like mine) to adding a few Hauptwerk stops to an existing pipe organ. Some people have Hauptwerk controlling stop knobs with solenoids, others use touch screens, the LCD stop labels have been mentioned a few times. Lots of ideas are available, but not so much pre-packaged yet. Paul

This reminds me that I have in my player a recording I made in the mid-1980s (with permission) of a quarterly Anglican Evensong in Oslo (Lutheran) Cathedral, directed by Terje Kvam. Just like England, really - bells pealing over an introductory improvisation, Byrd: Haec dies, Leighton: responses, Howells: Coll Reg, Hadley: My Beloved Spake, and really excellently chanted and accompanied psalms in Norwegian. I missed only a big set-piece voluntary - we got a pleasant improvisation continuing straight out of the closing hymn (which was one I've never come across in this country at all, and sung by the congregation with a level of expressiveness that many choirs fail to reach). The following weekend I recorded a recital in the cathedral that included a setting of words from the Song of Songs, in Norwegian, for contralto accompanied by string quartet, vibraphone and bongos! It worked very well, actually. Paul

I can find no reference that agrees with you - what's yours? The nearest thing I can find is that Hart's Rules (aka Oxford Guide to Style) allows constructions like 'do's as an alternative to dos for the plurals of words as objects, and a certain recent popular book on punctuation has mistaken this for do's - it would be easy to carry this mistake over to capital abbreviations, I suppose. Paul

120 notes in the top octave? The mind boggles! Paul

But as that is true not only of the organs he was working on, but also of the models he was trying to emulate, it could well be less of a disadvantage than at first appears. My wife has limited hearing, but is still very well able to make comparitive judgements. Paul

The cathedral's web site has a music page - it is completely blank: http://www.invernesscathedral.co.uk/pp/music.html Paul

Surely Valotti and Young are just the same pattern rotated round the circle of fifths? Paul

I have just provided a friend with a CD of organ music, custom played and recorded by me, the CD to be played at her (imminent) funeral. It's the way she wants it; and she's found it a consolation to have been able to hear it in advance... Paul

The one they had in the mid-60s (possibly an earlier model) made a horribly oppressive sort of noise - I hated having to be at services when it was used. Paul

My first thought was is it actually a Hammond, or was that just a generic term for "electronic organ", as I have heard it used. Paul

Mark Blatchly wrote a 14min set of Variations on the Agincourt Song for Adrian Partington, which he recorded on his Reading Town Hall CD. I don't know if they are published. Paul

In Oxfordshire, if you do the exact trigger speed (36mph in a 30 area) you get the option of going on a "speed awareness course" instead of getting points. It costs a little more than the fine (about £70 vs £60), but it's worth it to avoid accumulating points. The offer is not repeated if you reoffend within 3 years. Both my wife and I have done this course :-) Paul

Pete McMullin at Blackwell's is pretty good, though. Paul

Sadly they no longer have their second-hand section. It was a whole floor when I was a student, and I have nearly two dozen hardback full scores from the Barenreiter Bach, Handel and Mozart editions that I bought during that time (and I regret not getting the score of Mozart's version of Messiah, of which there were, strangely, several copies). But they still have reasonable stock; I bought a volume of Gabrieli organ music there last week - I'd just called in to look for something else on my way home, and happened on it - as one does. Paul

I'm a Bourdon - no-one takes much notice of me as I get on with things, but they miss me when I'm not there. Paul

As an aside to the thread, does anyone else have the Abbey recording of Cecil Clutton's 10-stop house organ? Built by Mander as I recall. It was called "An Organ for an Organ Scholar" and had a spoken intro by CC, and then a side each of Francis Jackson and Peter Hurford playing. Mono only as far as I know. Paul

Just so. That's the contents of Volume 2 Disk 1. Volume One has one disk of music and one of features, Volume Two has two disks of music. You do have all the disks? Paul

Yes - you can just read his name on the cover. Paul

When I wrote them down and checked them off carefully, I found all the listed pieces on the DVDs in the boxes. It was not obvious at first, and I think there are a few tracks with more than one piece to confuse the issue. Paul

I had that record of St Giles's, too. Didn't keep it. Paul

Most forums I read have their time fixed at UT (aka GMT). The offset for the time to be displayed is set by each individual in their profile, so that it can match their country - which may in any case have a different date of switch to daylight-saving time. In the case of this board, your displayed time can be switched to DST automatically, but you need to check whether that option is enabled in your control panel - it is in mine, and has worked correctly. Paul