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You Sir are a Scholar and a Gentleman. I feel the life force returning and I thank you from the bottom of my uneducated heart.

I’m just listening to it using the “Listen Again” facility and so far I’m enjoying it. It sounds as though it’s either closely mic’d or there’s very little acoustic in the building. It wasn’t the most exciting rendition of the Ireland that I ever heard but over all I enjoyed the recording.

If I wanted an English lesson then I’d contact my old English teacher who was, incidentally, Humphrey Clucas. At the time (he was at Winchester) I had no idea what he did outside school.

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You'd get more than a couple for £68

Live often means recorded live i.e. no retakes, rather than broadcast live. I suspect that much of what you’re saying is correct.

Lucian Nethsingha according to This web site.

I was under the impression (probably incorrectly) that the amount of compression on DAB varied from channel to channel and even from program to program. This varies as the bandwidth/dynamic range of the music varies. The compression on R1 is and can be less than R3.

I’ve feed the output of a Skybox (that had a phono o/p) straight into my HiFi and found the quality to be reasonable. I haven’t tried the same with a free view box so can’t comment on the quality.

This is only a guess, but here goes. Most people in my office won’t listen to (or watch for that matter) anything to do with Religion. Even those who like “classical” music won’t listen to anything mentioning God. I appreciate that my office isn’t a typical cross section of society, but maybe R3 are loosing more listeners by broadcasting a religious service during a prime time slot?

I had heard that since said drums came on the scene the quality of the rest of the music has slipped. PS Apologies for being totally off subject.

A Video recorder connected to either a Skybox or a Digi box would do it. Sky + allows you to pause (and play later) any channel. Certain DAB radios have a memory card that also lets you “record” radio to listen later. Hope some of this helps?

Looks like we've found our man then?

The climb up to the console at Chichester is interesting. It’s got nothing to do with spiral staircases, steep steps or the lack of headroom, just that to reach the console you end up walking through the organ so you see the (tracker) action and some of the pipes (pedal I think). It’s a rare chance to see the insides of an organ at all, let alone one so beautifully crafted as Chichester.

From what I can gather that was the case. It took several minutes to walk up to the console. I can’t confirm this, but that’s certainly implied in the bumph about the organ.

It’s always good to have a supportive Dean, makes the DOM’s life easier. Under the guidance of David Briggs then Andrew Nethsingha and now Robert Sharpe the choir has steadily improved. It’s hard for cathedrals that are at the extremes of the country (well England) to attract quality singers if the money is poor. A supportive Dean can always help, but if there’s no money in the pot then there’s no money in the pot.

Perhaps it is a “bit invidious for us to try naming our best bets in public”, but why not? I appreciate that there are some fine directors that aren’t in first division cathedrals but then (sorry Truro) I never considered Truro as a first division cathedral. What I do know is that Robert has really moved the choir on since he took up post. Whilst the choir there was never a sow’s ear, it has defiantly moved up a notch. This is of course, only my opinion. Others may (and probably will) disagree with me completely.

How about Andy’s old number two from Lichfield, Robert Sharpe? The results he’s achieved at Truro have been fantastic.

If what you said wasn’t so true, it would almost be funny. All you’ve got to do is look at any (well most) cathedral organ booklets and you’ll see a list of organs that have been scrapped. Willis (amongst others) seldom kept what was already there in favour of his own pipe work. I suppose the up side is that there are a few parish churches with some cracking (former cathedral) organs.

I just glanced at this thread briefly (this morning) and wrote a quick reply. Speech rhythms are the way to go. I personally don’t think The Oxford Psalter has the best pointing out there.

A much better solution to the second/forth quarter/half than I cobbled together in about ten seconds this morning. The big thing is to neither rush nor drag the words. Good pointing can help eliminate the “stalls” but it comes down to the choir/director to get rid of them completely. The hardest thing to overcome is the “we’ve always done it this way” brigade. Adding syllables, elongating words and putting in pauses (where none are required) are a no no.

I must say that this isn’t a style of pointing that I familiar with. He hath not hid his face from him but when he called | unto him. He | heard him This I personally would find OK or even (for the second quarter/half) He hath not hid his face from him but when he called | unto | him He | heard him I’d be interested to see and hear how you’d point that text. It’s only “Gabble and Thump” if you let your choir sing it that way. It’s not a contest to sing it in the shortest possible time.

I think I’ll just stick with my Castle Avon’s, I’ve never found them to be lacking in bass or bass extension.

Thanks for your reply Tony. Not just the loudspeaker but where it’s physically located within the room. What precedes it in the recording/playback chain is also important, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). I have found that speaker choice/placement to be personal thing anyway. One persons meat is another’s poison.