Andrew Butler

I tend to default towards legato in Bach, as my main place of playing is so "dead" acoustically that staccato sounds, well - silly for want of a better description! I find - rightly or wrongly -that my personal preference is for an almost Dupre-like legato for many chorale preludes (eg "O Mensch bewein", "Nun komm, der heiden Heiland" and "Liebster Jesu")

Reminds me of when Peter Collins added a Trombone (among other things) to the Willis at St George's, Benenden, Kent a few years ago. I played for a wedding there at the end of the week the Trombone was connected, but no one told me that the drawstop had been temporarily connected the wrong way round (out for off, in for on) Not sure why this would have been - an organ builder might be able to hazard a guess...??) but the catastrophic result when I started playing beforehand can be imagined!

I don't really see the point of this topic until something definite is known. I am also sorry to see that, as so often, any mention of KCC involves some sort of gratuitous SC-bashing.

I'll look out for that - thanks. Is it online anywhere? This was the organ I'd heard about.

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I heard recently of an organ that had been rebuilt with wireless transmission. I have never come across this - are there many examples around? Seems an excellent idea - but something else to go wrong!?

"Salzburg" is given as a choice along with "St Edmund" to "Songs of thankfulness and praise" in at least one RC hymnbook

I must take up the handbells!!

I used to have an LP of the "old" incarnation of Ely, played by Arthur Wills. I can'[t remember what was on the disc, but I'm sure he found some "French" sounds - may have been for a Daquin Noel.....? I have never fully understood the intended use or been aware of the actual effect of the Horn Quint.....?