[Guitars And Organs]

Would a former Christian musician with ample church music and liturgical experience, who is now an atheist or a member of another faith still be allowed to be part of the holy social golf club order, Mr Newnham?

 

One wonders why anyone who had now become an atheist or a member of another faith would even remotely want to be part of a Christian set up! Doesn't make sense

[Waxy O'connor's, Glasgow]

I used to go to recitals at this former Methodist Church (Park Street) and remember the last time the organ was rebuilt. Keith Rhodes gave the opening recital and some of the Bradford cathedral choristers took part. I seem to remember it was a fairly uninteresting 3 manual Conacher.

 

As one of his former organ pupils, I can just picture Philip Tordoff in the former chapel with his pint of real ale. (I'm sure he never used to drink halves!!).

[Cats And Organs]

Maurice Forsyth-Grant had a cat. He also had a large house organ in Hawthorne Lodge. On that organ was a wierd mixture that even the great John Degens found tricky to tune. The said cat had a habit of wandering amongst the pipework after tuning, thus undoing difficult and excellent work. As the offending creature was a cat, M F-G would not remonstrate with it. He merely regretted the damage to the tuning. Yes, cats have staff not owners.

 

Barry Williams

 

On several occasions after I have tuned the organ in a certain well known 'Royal' venue, the organist has remarked that many pipes (particularly the 2' Great) have been badly out of tune. This was extremely puzzling to me as the organ is very stable. It was later discovered that this offence was caused not by a cat, but a dog! Apparently, before a royal visit, the building is thoroughly searched by security Police and a 'sniffer' dog is let into the organ and up onto the main passage board! Of couse, if the pipes were cone-tuned they would be ok.

 

Knowing that dogs go into the organ I now tread very carefully on a tuning visit!