undamaris
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Thank you both very much! Greatly appreciated
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Just watching a programme of Michael Palin & he's at a function in the ballroom of the above hotel, where they have a good sized organ case. I've done some looking online but can't find anything about it - anyone got any details at all?
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Does anyone know what the state of play is regarding the organ here? There's nothing on the website to say anything apart from they have a toaster acting as the main instrument for services and recitals
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Sir David may have lived to a ripe old age, but his contribution to music will live on much longer, and his passing is still met with sadness. My thoughts are with those who he loved and who loved him. For myself, the Service of Nine Carols will never seem quite the same. Another loss in such a short space of time
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Shocking news. The world has lost one of the most consummate musicians whose talents as a choir master & organist were incalculable to the life & worship of the Anglican tradition. To say he will be greatly missed is a huge understatement.
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I've heard of the Suavial before. The Meditation sounds like it should be a Celeste...
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I have a booklet about the Hexham Abbey organs somewhere, and I'm quite sure there was an old black and white picture of a five manual console! I must try and dig it out and post it if I can!
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Barber's Adagio for Strings comes to mind
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They certainly haven't skimped on the celestes!
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How about Organ Concerto No 13,The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Handel? There's always The Swan from the Carnival of Animals as well which works a dream with a good celeste and a strong solo string stop ;-)
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Thank you gents for all your help!
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It has quite an appealing look - almost Pre-Raph with a limed wood finish!
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Can't say that I've ever attempted it on a two manual organ, but even though the Choir is prepared for, is the action working and
can you couple the Swell down to it? I know registration wise and musically it's not ideal, but you get a pretty good idea of what to expect on a three manual organ just for learning and practice purposes
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One of the losses here is yet another of Walker’s larger ‘elephant tusk’ consoles, they are getting fewer and fewer and that is a shame. Apart from their individual design I’ve always found them really comfortable and easy to use, an ergonomic triumph. Doncaster was a very fine example, built low-profile and with few pistons compared to modern consoles. That wasn’t a problem as it was so easy to flick registers on and off, almost faster than a piston, once one had worked out the double-touch function. Like the Compton ‘lighthouses’ they represented some real innovation and they looked rather impressive too.
I remember the 5 manual console by Walker at Tewkesbury Abbey in the loft over the cantoris choir stalls with the 2 manual console. The 2 manual did all the work, but the 5 manual was functioning, controlling the Milton and Apse sections. It was also independent so that it and the 2 manual console could be used together for teaching purposes and for both players to use different registers I believe.My abiding memory of being in that loft as an 11 year old boy was the 5 manual console covered with sections of card cut out in curves and taped over the stops of the Grove organ and the "prepared for" stops of the intended scheme. Even as young as I was then, I found sitting at the Walker consoles very comfortable, and the 5th manual wasn't undually out of reach.I have to admit I'm a draw stop man, but the 'elephant tusk' Walker consoles were easy to use. They may have looked like a Wurlitzer in widow's weeds but they made registration easier than a battery of pistons at times! One sweep of a finger could give an amazing crescendo! LOL
Does anyone know what happened to the two consoles as my memory now is like the weather - getting murkier by the day
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There are a couple of organs with Hope-Jones pedigrees up this end of the country - St James in Arnside and St Mary the Virgin in Ambleside (both in Cumbria), although there seems to be some doubt about the St James organ, with Laycock and Bannister being cited as the original builder. Both have had tonal additions added along the years with St James acquiring more upperwork in comparison to St Mary. Not had the chance to hear St Mary's but the St James instrument has a bit of poke as far as I remember. Wether this has anything to do with parts of the aisles being commandeered to make parish rooms etc and the organ not being altered to deal with the church's reduced space I don't know I'm afraid
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I'm sure I have seen that video too.............it's not on NPOR as it was a temporary organ I think....It looked very much like that colourful organ which appears in Organists' Review - the one that travels around and teaches kids about the organ. It has a funny name - something like Woof or Hoof??
Very much like that! And AJJ you're right as well from what I remember. Wasn't it the Early English Organ Project? They replicated the Wetheringsett organ plus another instrument.
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Hi
Not sure why you had trouble finding it on NPOR - a search for "Pershore" reveals the situation a few years back - see http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N12480 (2009)
Every Blessing
Tony
I know the main organ was removed years ago and replaced by the Bradford Computing organ, but this organ looks like a one manual affair at the west end of the church as opposed to the north east corner where the Walker used to stand
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I've just watched a video on YouTube of bell ringing from Pershore Abbey that was posted in 2012. In the early part of the film as the camera pans round, you can clearly see an organ at the west end of the nave just south of the west door. It's got a gothic style case with tracery and painted pipes withaven't h the tallest in the centre of the pipe flat. Does anyone have any information on this organ, as the Abbey site and the NPOR don't seem to be coming up with any details!
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I've just watched a video on YouTube of bell ringing from Pershore Abbey that was posted in 2012. In the early part of the film as the camera pans round, you can clearly see an organ at the west end of the nave just south of the west door. It's got a gothic style case with tracery and painted pipes with the tallest in the centre of the pipe flat. Does anyone have any information on this organ, as the Abbey site and the NPOR don't seem to be coming up with any details!
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I was wondering if any forum members have heard anything regarding the state of affairs at St Bart's? There's no news on their website yet and Schoenstein have nothing that I can find on there's about this project. According to the December 2011 issue the hope was that the new instrument would be installed by 2014.but obviously this hasn't happened! All I've managed to glean is some conflicting reports. On one hand, the case will remain on the west gallery but with new front pipes and a positive division in the space left by the console which will be detached and mobile. The church website says the new organ will hopefully be on a new gallery in the North transept, leaving the West gallery open and the windows visible once again. It just seems odd that no more details have come forward, yet we're hearing of new organs coming over from the States and new projects from our side of the pond being proposed quite regularly now!
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re Westminster Abbey
That was when the Pearson cases were removed for safe keeping during WW2 wasn't it? They weren't back in place until 1959 I believe
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I know this hasn't anything to do with our host's website, but is anyone having trouble with the organ matters website? I can log in, but it won't let me post, despite answering all the verification questions correctly. I may be a Luddite but I know I'm not that inept :-/
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The Ashton Hall organ in Lancaster is worth a visit. It's an old war horse by Norman and Beard with a beautiful Waring and Gillow case. It has on going restoration by Principal Pipe Organs so it's getting back to its former glory! There are free lunchtime recitals on Wednesdays with donations accepted so that should be worth catching
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I wait with bated breath to see what will happen! With so little seemingly happening regarding the building of new instruments that were on the cards a few years ago it's wonderful news to hear of a noble organ not being threatened with the scrap heap. Thank the Lord for the Heritage Lottery fund - probably one of the only good reasons to do the Lottery when I think that I hardly ever win anything over a fiver every three years or so! Glad to see money going to deserving causes. I myself come from Cheltenham - a town with a provincial town hall that is as impressive on the inside as it is outside, but unlike Colchester it lacks an organ with such a beautiful case. Cheltenham's organ is quite a lugubrious organ of 1927 by R&D and typical of the age. I would love to see something as fantastic as that happening in Colchester happen there.As Gloucestershire's largest civic venue it deserves an organ worthy of it.
Oh, let's not forget the Ashton Hall in Lacaster! Things have moved on there in leaps and bounds and the organ sounds like a new instrument with the restoration of the original bellows just the previous week
St Peter's Seminary Cardross
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Also, have any members heard or played this organ?