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  1. The church has the size to accomodate the sound of 32’ pipes but not the physical space for multiple ranks. So - why not digital.
  2. St. James', King Street in the heart of Sydney is installing a new instrument. It has been quite the project for the parish, particularly as the factory burned down during the construction phase. Organ Project Gallery – St. James – King Street (sjks.org.au) I'm no longer attached to the parish so it would be wrong of me to speak for the project. Have a look at the gallery and visit the FB page. Many of us can't wait to see it, hear it and play it.
  3. Welcome Jaco - you may enjoy going back over many years of topics here. Sometimes you end up reigniting a topic that has been dormant for a decade or more.
  4. I watched some of the livestreams from Ripon Cathedral. Ronny Krippner appears to be working wonders with the musical standards there.
  5. He was a wonderful musician - incredible sense of rubato whilst maintaining a phrase.
  6. I don't do that much playing anymore - I tend to leave it to the real organists, but I got to do double duty at the cathedral today. Opportunity to play harpsichord for Bach and organ in a service was too good to pass up. Also the hymns were belters - Helmsley gets me every time. The Catholic cathedral and the two main Anglican city churches in Sydney all have great musical traditions and livestream regularly as well. Who else is having fun on Advent Sunday?
  7. There are fascinating instruments here and some wonderful buildings. Plenty of dross as well.
  8. https://www.npor.org.uk/survey/R00852 This was “my” organ from 1987-1994. Conacher had the contract to build it but R&D did the job because of a fire at the Huddersfield factory. I don’t know enough about either firm but does this specification look more like a Conacher or R&D spec? It wasn’t the biggest sound in the world but I recall it was quite a rich sound in a terrible acoustic. It’s all gone now.
  9. Continuing the recent tradition of resurrecting long abandoned threads, can report it is a lovely instrument, and probably deserves to be better known. I’ve never played it, which seems a terrible oversight on my part. anyone interested in Australia’s organ heritage could easily waste a few days on https://ohta.org.au/organs-of-australia/
  10. I’ve just spent an amazed 10 minutes reflecting on my life events that have taken place in the seventeen years between these posts. Also I think there has to be a prize for understatement - “a bit late, but…….” 😂
  11. Hi Contrabombarde - I think you inadvertently posted the link to the Kings Heath baptist spec - here is the Methodist NPOR | G00576 I posted on X the other day that I lived in Birmingham for 4 years and never went inside St. Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter. I now realise that even though I was organist at All Saints, Kings Heath for 3 years I never stepped inside the Methodist or Baptist churches. Put it down to the wasteful arrogance of youth.
  12. Thanks - Shazam opened up a whole new world of possibilities - just not the right one. And I think it's one of those pieces that will work well for occasional impact - but I wouldn't have it on repeat in the car.
  13. Organ voluntary at the end - clip should start in the right place. It wasn't in the Order of Service or on the music list and I emailed Canterbury to no response.
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