Hebridean

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This is the RAH's own online archive entry https://catalogue.royalalberthall.com/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS%2FUK%2F1614 Interesting connection to St Patrick's, Dundalk

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At first glance, this database from the Organ Historical Society suggests that there are three 'Father' Willis organs in the US (there are four entries but I think two refer to the same organ). https://pipeorgandatabase.org/organs?builderID=6783 Aside from the organ in St Joseph's, Seattle, the database suggests there is another in Oahu - however, digging into the entry a bit more indicates that the instrument was purchased from Henry Willis & Sons in the ?1950s and is actually by an 'unknown builder'. It also suggests that the Oahu organ is 'playable' but not 'usable', which is possibly a comment that could be applied to a number of other instruments ...

It looks like its new owners are very proud of it, as it forms the header picture to their Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/138074444@N08/albums/

Very cheerful, thank you - especially the first piece, despite its title!

The copyright of the work, according to p3, lies with Dulcet Media. There is an entry for a Dulcet Media Ltd on Companies House, which includes a correspondence address. I am not sure, of course, if it is the same company as the copyright holder. MM discloses his own name in this thread on this forum.

And also Dr Christopher Kent, organist, appointed BEM, for services to music and musicology.

Very nice, thank you for posting - a little insight (or in-sound) into accompanimental history! Slower than today (or rather, slower than I play them!) Interesting to hear the 'swoop' in the verse of Adeste fideles, obviously the swoop has quite a pedigree of its own! I'd hesitate to change dynamic so much in hymns as Mr Dixon did, but perhaps that was much more the norm then!

Lovely, Dr Pykett! Perhaps the macaronic text invites responses from a broad range of influences!

This thread has been quite a challenge recently - I had a certain set of reactions when I first read the proposed specification, and then these feelings were followed by confusion and doubt as questions were raised (and I understand why) about the proposal's authenticity. Now, the veracity of the proposals has been established and members are starting to ask technical questions, on James Atherton's invitation. Quite a journey, to use that cliché. However, it does mean that I can go back to my original reaction and feeling when I read the specification, and considered the rationale which Nicholson's have helpfully provided. That is, I think it is a truly imaginative and forward-thinking design that seems to me to take UK organ building in a very stimulating direction. There is so much from the past - the design of the Chaire organ, the use of the polyphone, the inspiration from Cavaillé-Coll, to take just some obvious examples. But these ideas and practices from the past are being brought together in a new combination, together with modern ideas and skills, in a unique situation and to address specific requirements and challenges. The design shows a willingness to embrace and combine good ideas even if they may not be, or have been, regarded in some quarters as technically 'correct'. I think this is genuinely innovative and, whilst I obviously 'get' the fact that we need to hear what the organ sounds like in a couple of years' time, I think at this stage, the builders, the cathedral musicians and the cathedral's wider community should be applauded for their vision and imagination. Bravo.

Phew, thank you, Rowland. The music from the pipers at both services was amazingly moving, in my humble opinion. The pipes are just perfect instruments for laments.

I don’t know anything about The Crown but I am puzzled no one seems to remember the piper playing significantly above ground level at the funeral of Her Late Majesty in Westminster Abbey. Recording on YouTube. I think he played ‘Sleep, dearie, sleep’. Did I imagine it?

I thought this was really lovely, thank you very much for posting it.

Very good!