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Hmm, overpriced and yet still cheap? Have to say though, that according to my wife, my digital delight is in fact a wholly acceptable substitute for a IIIP/42 in the living room.

Well, thank you to all who replied: a courier has just delivered a splendid looking set of Sennheiser HD 595 and a "coffee break" beckons...

The headphones that came with my digital pride and joy are fast disintegrating and Mrs Bordun has offered to get me a new pair for my approaching birthday. Neither of us knows much about such things - what makes / models do people have that work? What do you have to spend to get something tolerable?

If he did, it's strange that he had time to click the Add Reply button...

Haven't seen exactly that system - my toaster has something that I think is quite common: AutoPedal (AP) plays the lowest Manual note on any Pedal stops drawn. (don't know offhand whether it operates only on the Gt or on all 3 - have never actually touched it, except by accident).

Well, (1) is a recording of a live performance and (2) is a studio recording, in which performance errors, etc, may have been 'revisited'.

Yeah Yeah Yeah, technically very impressive no doubt, but at what cost to the composer's intentions? I bet the audience didn't hear half the actual notes.

I heard it was originally an improvisation - pity the poor sod who had to transcribe it from the recording.

and of course, do you play from the piano score, or arrange it specifically for organ?

My god you've led a sheltered life...

This case - and Organist Publications - is featured in the Lunchtime O'Boulez column in this week's edition of Private Eye, not, I'm afraid, very flatteringly.

Surely "If one wished..", or even "if one were to be.." would be more correct?

Well you learn something new every day... I always thought it indicated he was a Dominican monk.

Doyen?

Is that a short compass Swell?

Yes, but this still means six Sundays off with pay, because each of your 6 2-hour-leave-periods equates to a Sunday off, since you wouldn't have been on duty for any of the other 22 hours that Sunday anyway.

Have to confess, that despite having read the letter in the Times, I failed to spot the manual/white collar pun. I'm fairly impressed that the Times letters editor did so, although I guess the white collar bit isn't too obscure.

Well the case at Old Radnor is still there, with a late C19 instrument in it. The late Stephen Bicknell's website has a fascinating description here http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~oneskull/3.6.12.htm which nicely captures the atmosphere of the area as well as the church.

I'll hazard the fugue of BWV565 - thin texture, arepeggios and it's what you want to play at that age!

These are two names for the same phenonmenon, except that it is usually termed beating when the pitches are rather close together and difference tones when they are further apart. The frequency of the beats heard between 2 sources of sound is that of the difference between them, hence a pipe sounding at 440Hz will beat at 1 Hz (1 beat per second) with another at 441Hz. Hence also, beats will occur between pipes sounding at 32Hz (16' C) and 48Hz (10'G) and these beats will have a frequency of 48-32=16Hz, which is the fundamental frequency of a 32'C pipe. Less familiar is that it also follows that because the difference between 10'G and 8'C is also 16Hz, these 2 notes sounded together will also create a 32'C fundamental.

Further improvement can be gained by leaving the rests where they are and omitting all intervening notes.

In my case, the remote control and the output to the lounge (PC free zone in our house) hifi, but if you're streaming there already from a media PC this may not add anything.

On a more serious note, what sort of money would be involved in dismantling it, moving it and reassembling it?

If you go to Listen Again (rebranded iPlayer) you can step thru' in 15 minute sections, and Listen Again page also tells you the running order with timings..

I've given up on the beeb, and bought a Logitech Squeezebox - a 'wifi radio tuner' that plugs into my amp and allows access to several thousand internet radio stations, including Organlive (organ music 24x365, with NO presenters) Choirboys and Trebles (choral music 25x365 with NO presenters), Sacred Choral Music, (you get the idea) Choral Treasure etc. Go and have a look at www.live365.com - and this is only a tiny fraction of what's out there on the net. Since all the beeb's radio channels - including the digital-only ones - are also available on the internet, and since all my CDs were long since ripped to iTunes, which the slimserver also knows about, this gadget has become the only audio source I ever use. (And no, I don't have shares in the company!).