John Robinson
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Happened upon this this afternoon. It's the installation of the new Master at Trinity, Cambridge. Excellent music - a wonderful solo trumpet fanfare as he arrives at the chapel and then a great bravura performance on organ and brass of Sinfonia from Cantata 29. If you enjoy academic dress and want to do a bit of Cambridge robe-spotting you'll enjoy it too! No DMus robes in evidence, unfortunately!
I'm very please to see that the producers of the video managed to keep going until the end of the organ voluntary. Perhaps the BBC should take note!
I also noticed at least one member of the academic staff without tie and another wearing jeans. A sign of the times I suppose.
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... a tennis elbow support from a good sports shop - it should have a strap around the wrist and a second one closer to the elbow with a rod linking the pair to reduce twisting of the forearm.
I'm glad you mentioned that. I have had what I assume to be tennis elbow for a couple of weeks now. It began when I was doing some screwing (no, please don't condemn me yet. I'm serious).
I usually use a power drill/screwdriver but, stupidly, couldn't be bothered to get it out on this occasion. Obviously, my forearm isn't used to such movements - twisting of the forearm, as you have mentioned.
I haven't bothered the quack about this as it's not all that bad. I'm trying to avoid undue movement of the arm, but I understand tennis elbow (if that's what it is) can persist for many weeks.
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could be of some help then, perhaps.
Best,
Friedrich
Thanks Friedrich. My laptop speakers are not exactly 'hi-fi' (!), but I am assuming, then, that adding the septieme makes the sound of a tierce (+nasard, etc) even more reedy?
If I understand it correctly the ninth and eleventh, on the other hand, do not contribute any 'reediness'?
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I shall endevour to be there, see she is playing one my favourite pieces, March upon Handel’s Lift up your heads, the last time I was at the cathedral, was when the late, Carlo Curley played there, should go more often as my g/f lives in Bradford, (hmmmmmm, excuse to call for tea)
Peter
I should certainly go as my mother-in-law lives in Bradford.
Oh...wait...
Seriously, though, I'd like to go but I'm not free on that date.
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Channel 301 on Freeview broadcasts Red Button stuff and I was able to record the service on it and avoid the commentary. Sadly the organ music before and after was drowned by other noise.
Yes, I did as well. As for the drowned out bits, yes, the BBC don't seem to like organ music, do they? They seem to prefer to hear people talking.
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I forgot to look to see if any were placed in the North and South East Quarter Dome sections. If so, then these would surely have caused some concern for the organ builders - since there is much pipe-work in both quarters. Did anyone notice if this was the case?
None in the SE quarter dome now. Not for 20 years, I think.
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Good to see rubrics such as "The Organist will play ... ".
Infinitely better than, "The organ will now play."
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Out of interest, with which stop(s) do the respective organists 'smite the enemies in the hinder parts'?
Not quite smiting anybody, but I have a recording of Francis Jackson's 'Tremble though Earth at the presence of the Lord' (Psalm 114, I think) being thoroughly trembled with the 32' reed at York.
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Very interesting Friedrich, thank you. It will be interesting to hear the effects of these mutations at Notre Dame.
My thanks too, Friedrich. I look forward to the day when someone with both the necessary interest and the necessary resources creates a YouTube video demonstrating all of these more unusual mutations in context and combination, obviously, with the lower pitched unison ranks.
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Or perhaps it's just a particularly liquid-sounding flute!
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Thanks Kropf.
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Hi John,
The plan is to lay the bottom octave of the 32' reed on top of the swell box.
Jonathan
Good. Let's hope this work comes to fruition.
I seem to remember, before they added the Positif/Chancel division, there was what appeared to be a 16' open metal in the prospect. I don't know whether these were speaking pipes but, presuming they were, I assume they must have been part of a Pedal stop as, to the best of my knowledge, there has never been an open (or any) double on the Great.
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Thanks Alex. I applaud your decision to include a 16' Open Diapason, presumably on the Great, and a 32' reed which is sure to add to the grandeur of the instrument.
Is there sufficient space in the existing chamber (in the chancel)? I should imagine it would already be quite full!
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Thanks!
That was what I was thinking of. Proper sealing might be an issue. I was just thinking of removing really small particles, where the holding wedge does need not be removed. Of course, any revoicing work would need the removal of the whole block.
Framed glass? Having a window to watch large reeds vibrating surely is big fun...
Would be a good idea for the coming organ of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall (if it ever will be finished, costs are exploded up to 600 %), which shall be built by Klais and shall provide the possibility of walking through or at least pass behind the instrument and to have views through windows...(If it is intended to use these walks during concerts, I do not know...)
This looks like an interesting project. It sounds as if Klais have already planned and designed the organ (though it is yet to be built), yet I cannot find a specification or stop-list on the web site. Do you know whether one is available?
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It's a pity "they" decided to get rid of the Nave Organ and replace it with electronics. It's a very strange building acoustically, with a very resonant chancel and an almost dead nave, and to me, there seems no other solution, (if we're talking proper pipe organs), than getting a west end division back in place.
Best,
MM
I quite agree. I never thought the old Nave Organ 'got in the way' or looked out of place.
An oddity which, I hope, could possibly be rectified if and when the work takes place is that there isn't a single double on the Great Organ, whilst there are on the Swell and even the Choir/Positif/Chancel (whatever they're calling it now!).
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Happy new year from me too.
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I'm afraid we're getting into territory that I don't fully understand here. I believe that when I downloaded and unzipped the files they appeared as m4a files which play correctly on my version of Windows Media Player (without the need to convert them to mp3).
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I'm not sure what caused all this, CB. Just sorry to hear of your problems.
It is, of course, expected that files will be much bigger when they have been unzipped.
I see nothing wrong with downloading and saving music files if they are for one's own use and there is no attempt to sell them or profit from them. (Now the Performing Arts Police - PAP - will be down on me like a ton of bricks!)
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Apologies for prolonging this digression on this thread, but the photo of Doctors Jackson and Neary in Lambeth degree robes ( http://asfchoir.word...mbeth/img_4522/ ) is misleading, as they are not identical. I imagine that the expense of these garments means that some discreet substitution has taken place.
They look as though they might once have been identical, though. Perhaps one of them 'ran' in the wash!
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Why? Was it money? I just hope they're caught.
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Exactly. At weddings they'll happily chatter (or worse) while the organ is playing, but the moment some bint in a tight dress gets up and caterwauls into a microphone, out of tune and in a mid-Atlantic accent (without accompaniment, of course), they will whoop, cheer, applaud and go generally ape. I'm only surprised that they're not so ape that they scratch under their armpits.
I, too, tried to 'like' it, but apparently I've had my quota as well despite not using any yet!
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... during which I greatly enjoyed drowning out all of the talking using full organ in the last couple of pages.
Well done! Why on earth do people chatter during organ voluntaries? I'm sure that wouldn't happen if it were an orchestra or choir. I suppose many people see the organ as only there to provide background music such as what they hear in a supermarket.
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And annoying they are encrypted (they show up as green text in Windwos Explorer).
Meaning apparently, that having spent hours downloading them recently, I have to download them all over again. My only sin was to backup my music onto portable disk whilst I reinstalled Windows for technical reasons over CHristmas. When I copied them back to my PC they refuse to play.
Strange. I didn't have any problems. Did you 'download in groups'?
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Thanks Martin. That explains a lot. I had noticed, when watching Carols from Kings from various years on You Tube, that sometimes it's on and sometimes it's off! I hadn't seen the one with the continuity error, though. I'm a little surprised that he hasn't yet taken a DMus from Cambridge yet, bearing in mind his enviable position.
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Well it would be a swimming pool with excellent acoustics!