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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

The choir I sing in has used an organ (the Metzler in St Mary's University Church in Oxford, to be precise) to provide wind and trumpet parts alongside strings for a performance of Purcell's King Arthur. It was a compromise that enable us to have the correct instruments for the bulk of the performance while remaining within our budget. Paul

It was pretty unusable, though. The Dulciana cornet was completely feeble, and I couldn't discern any worthwhile purpose in it. Paul

You don't have to use touchscreens, though...

I think for many people it's as simple as whether they can see the performer. Without sight of the player, organ music is no more engaging to them than Muzak.

(Yes, I meant this board - I forgot that "parish" has another common meaning for folks around here!)

According to David Coram in this post (last sentence), it's in Bournemouth. Paul PS, further research finds that it was created by pcnd of this parish.

Ah, I see. They've changed a bit since then, though. When I sang there, the choir stalls were nearer the crossing (and so further from the organ) than they are now. But the main problem of the building itself, now I think of it, is not just the truncated nave, but how narrow it is between the pillars. Paul

The nave is not Victorian, of course, but Norman. The main problem harks back to Cardinal Wolsey shortening it to build his grand quadrangle outside.

That's because it's difficult to do well. I record using a a single-point mic; here's an example of what I consider a reasonable balance of choir and two organs: https://pwh-recordings.s3.amazonaws.com/Aspects_of_Christ/09_Vierne-Agnus_Dei_(Messe_solonnelle).mp3 (The original of that is a surround recording made using ambisonic technology.) Paul

The organ we are hearing is the Walker of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, I think you'll find!

There are a couple of pictures of the installation here: http://www.heiss-orgelbau.de/heiss-aktuell.html But no further information on the organ other than it is an adapted s/h instrument.

Including, I understand, an unborn child - such a lot of sadness! Paul

The recording is indeed no better than dreadful; but that doesn't obscure the state of the tuning... Paul

"Wabbey" in that list, presumably.

Certainly in the early days of lead-free solder usage in computer-related equipment I saw a lot of failures which were attributed to it. However, these were mainly concentrated in just a handful of devices, suggesting that some fabrication facilities needed more adaptation to cope with the stuff. In two particular cases (both HP printers), the boards demonstrating faults as a result could be restored to operation by placing in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for eight minutes - I did this on multiple occasions for devices of both types, and usually the "repair" was permanent. Since that temperature is below the melting point of the solder, I am not clear what the mechanism for the repair was. Paul

Because modern electronic organs use a comparatively low voltage on their contacts, to be easily compatible with solid-state logic, they are much more liable to unreliability caused by atmospheric corrosion than older systems that use a higher voltage. This applies to keyboards and relays equally, of course. Paul

Given the pitches (C, F and G - why else both 3' and 2 2/3'?)), and their position among the effects in the stop list, my presumption is that these are not full-compass stops, but drones.

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