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    RCO Test Equivalencies

    in General discussion

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    Not all choirmasters think ahead properly and, in any case, they may need to respond to situations arising. "I think we'd better have this motet accompanied, please." (It was in five parts without a keyboard reduction.) "Can we have this hymn down a tone, please?" "After the last verse you'll have to improvise for a minute to cover the choir's movement." I've had all of these and more shot at me over the years without notice....

    Lord, was it I? :unsure:

    Six-manual Organs

    in The Organ

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    How interesting. Do they make touchscreens now that allow for multiple simultaneous presses? One of my potential issues with H*******k is that, with a touchscreen system, you can only change one stop at a time (or so I was told).

    I may be wrong, but I *think* that (depending possibly on the brand of touchscreen and the driver software) you can "swipe" across a number of stops.

    Appointments 2

    in General discussion

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    Interesting to see that it is a 2-year fixed-term appointment.

    Some chat on Facebook this morning among people in the area hinted that an appointment might have already been made, but no names were mentioned and I obviously can't comment further on that.

    Appointments 2

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    I know very little, other than what one can read on the Blogspot post and the comments on it.
    Rumour has it (and I can't confirm this) that something like this was mentioned in the Job Spec for the new DoM.

    Worcester Cathedral

    in The Organ

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    It'll be a little earlier than that: Adrian Partington was Assistant at Worcester from 1981-1991.

     

    Which means it might not be a "hybrid", but the "Bradford" organ that was located at the west end of the cathedral for many years.

    Or was that organ installed later?

    Appointments 2

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    Kris Thomsett, currently Organ Scholar at Salisbury, to be Assistant DoM at Newcastle Cathedral.

    Formerly 6th form Organ Scholar at King's, Rochester (and an excellent Alto in the Cathedral Voluntary Choir), then Chelmsford (gap-year) and Norwich (UEA).

    UK 5-manuals?

    in General discussion

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    At Rochester the choir was mostly unconducted in Robert Ashfield's time, but that changed with Barry Ferguson's arrival in 1977.

    Allan Wicks was one of the first to start conducting (occasionally) at Canterbury in the early 1960s.

    UK 5-manuals?

    in General discussion

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    I think you could make that "many years ago". It was a four manual when I played it in 1976 (NPOR says 1963 for when Conacher removed the top manual and slightly redistributed the contents. It was presented by Henry Harris (the Bacon King) of Castle House, Calne, which also had a five manual Conacher. The latter is misrepresented in NPOR, which only gives it four manuals (there is a picture of the console in "The Organ") and states that the Solo Organ was prepared only (the same article refers specifically to blowing pipes of the Stentor by mouth).

    That will teach me to read more frequently the Sumner that I had as a teenager! :D

    Appointments 2

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    I was at Evensong there yesterday. The chap sitting just behind me was wearing a badge that said "Tim Noon".

     

    Ian

    Quote from the said Mr Noon's Facebook page today:

    "Very thrilled that from January I will be Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral."

    Appointments 2

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    Ben Bloor, currently Organ Scholar at Westminster Cathedral, previously Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor and New College, Oxford, to be the Michael James Assistant Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral from 1 September 2015.

    This new position replaces the posts of Cathedral Organist (currently held by Adrian Bawtree) and Organ Scholar (currently Jack Spencer).

    Gabriel's Oboe

    in The Organ

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    Does anyone know of an organ arrangement of this (the whole piece, not just the accompaniment)?

    If so, from whom can it be obtained?
    (Urgently needed for a wedding next month.)

    Electronic substitute in a Cathedral ?

    in General discussion

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    Norwich, last I heard, had a Bradford Computing organ in addition to a small pipe organ in the south transept that looks as though it came from elsewhere. http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D07254 T

    Correct. That's where I was last week.

    There is also a large quantity of pipework stored in the triforium, said to be from a Hill organ formerly in the Tower of London (St Peter ad Vincula?) donated to Norwich by HM The Queen c.15-20 years ago, together with a substantial sum of money for its re-erection (which obviously hasn't happened). Can anyone throw any more light on this?

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