contrabordun
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grabbed with each hand a couple of stops near the top of the stop jambs on divisions he was not using, in order to anchor himself in the right place to facilitate the pedalling.
I was once told that one should play pedal solos sitting relaxed with arms folded! (I was tempted to ask whether I should also be balancing a book on my head).
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Ooooooooh yes....looking forward to next Wed with huge anticipation!
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Nevertheless, the benefits are almost always outweighed by the extra costs.
Well, no, because 2-3% off the sale value is acceptable if the alternative is no sale at all - which is quite likely.
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Perhaps the Cathedral Shop is already geared up to process card payments?
Even if it is, it will still pay 2 or 3 percent to the card company.
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Funnily enough, yes - I'm in the process of setting this up for my own company.
The least hassle is undoubtedly Paypal, which is free to set up but relatively expensive (3.5%) in operation. Its other drawback (which was important for us but might not be relevant, depending on your point of view) is the associations it has with people selling secondhand videos on eBay.
There are dozens of independent companies who will take online payments on your behalf; we've gone with Nochex (www.nochex.com) who charged us £50 to set up the account and then 2.9% + 20p per transaction. All you do is put a "click here to donate" link onto your website, the link takes the donor to the payment site and they put in the amount and card details.
It might be worth setting it up on Paypal to start with and then seeing whether the amount coming in justifies something more elaborate.
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and have you noticed how so many people manage to ignore that fact? As though the children in the choir don't count for the purposes of 'how many young people have we got involved and how can we get more?'
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Oh well! Each to their own I suppose.
I think it's Ms Lusardi's they're more interested in.
A quite unnecessarily detailed review of this subject was printed in this week's Sunday Times. Those of a nervous disposition are advised not to investigate further. Moderators, please feel free to remove post if considered too far from subject of Ralph Downes.
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Well anyway, that's one less of them in circulation, and I think we can all raise a toast to that.
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Does the titulaire secretly want a pipe organ?
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Though presumably this is a matter that can and should be spelt out in detail in the contract? In my own field (IT) a system is frequently brought into use in phases both in terms of areas of functionality and userbase ("a stop at a time?!") and acceptance-with-a-capital-A can be a complex and drawn out process to the point that the final signoff becomes a formality reflecting a reality that may have been in place for some months. This can only be managed if everybody knows upfront what is intended at each point.
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For just £200 you can spend half an hour on the Blackpool Tower Wurlizter
:Have you noticed how "just" in sentences such as this usually means the opposite of its dictionary definition? Doncha love marketing?
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It's not bad though, we got 31 posts into this thread before anybody aluded to what everybody was thinking
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Ingenious idea though! So which organs would we pay £100+ to play? (and for how long?)
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How is 180 the double of any of the other numbers mentioned?
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a long iron to tune these.
Presumably to smoothen the tone out?
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This is even more entertainingly true in the RC church, where the there are signs that a number of young appointees at Cathedral level - and younger clergy, plus the inevitable return of the pendulum - have begun to make some Kendrickites - at least the ones with a sense of humour - feel a bit fogeyish.
http://www.ssg.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4704#4704
Unfortunately, as is the way of pendulums, the swing is likely to go too far, out will go the baby with the bathwater AGAIN (the author of the above is a fine musician who does excellent work in challenging circumstances) and yet more parishes will be left without music.
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as it seems people like to see the organist "dressed up"
Good grief, what sort of a reason is this? Next thing you'll be playing the hymns they like to sing and it's a slippery slope from there to voluntaries that are quiet enough for them to talk over.
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I don't know what's worse - the fact that you can look up forty year old copies of The Organ at the drop of a hat, or that I was apparently reading it 3 years before I was born...
As a matter of interest, is it your impression that the technique was successful - does the instrument work better with the hall full?
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Incidentally, organs are voiced in empty rooms. Quite a lot of them don't sound very good when the hall is full...
Did I once read somewhere that Birmingham Uni was voiced with a sack of newspaper on every chair in the hall, for this very reason?
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I don't think so, because it is the plural form sphagetti that has become assimiliated.
Now, about opus/opera...
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That's rather the point though, isn't it? Presumably the theatre stuff had a cost to it, which was - presumably - met from donated funds? Even if there is a plan to get people into the church by showing them silent movies with theatre organ accompaniment, I'm not sure how cost effective a way of saving souls that would be... But if it was simply that the titulaire happened to be a theatre organ buff, well, is that a good use of church funds?
Accepting the massive ignorance from which I write these vague generalisations - I'm hugely intruigued by the whole thing and am still curious to know why it was done.
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But to come back to at least part of the topic: why did they put a Theatre Organ in it?
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The new organ at Lytham is a dual spec classical/theatre model
Why?
In a church?
Less than 10 miles from the theatre organ it's copying?
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Birmingham Town Hall
in Nuts and bolts
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Anybody else go? Comments? I'm afraid I wasn't very taken with the handbells...