Grumpy
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On another quest, I came across something about this builder, of whom I had never heard, and his novel stop arrangement. Here (I hope) is the reference:
http://www.stgeorgeheadstone.org.uk/section/4.
I'm curious to know if anyone has played one of these and if so what it was like.
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Short notice, I know, but Evensong tomorrow (6.30) will be the last chance to hear the organ before it is taken down for restoration. I gather they intend to make "a bit of an occasion" of it.
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There is one of the fairly rare chances to hear the Colston Hall organ on Tuesday 23 September. The details are here:
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Here is an interesting story from yesterday's Observer.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/29/france.classicalmusicandopera
Ther is a YouTube clip at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJB1SJG3vCs
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Another one, if sung at 'Midnight Mass' starting at 11.30, that has to be sung after midnight is 'Christians awake, salute the happy morn'. A short sermon can mess this up!
FF
Surely one of the dreariest tunes ever written!
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There is an article in the Church Times:
www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=42537
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I hear the Bristol organ on a weekly basis and very fine it is too. I have never noticed the problems with the action that have been mentioned. Thinking that my normal position lurking near the back might flatter the sound, I went into the choir yesterday to listen to the final voluntary. I still heard no odd noises and I can only guess there must have been a microphone in a very odd place. Even so, my not bad tuner and stereo system didn't pick up anything during the broadcast.
By the way, there was a guest choir singing at the morning service of the day of the broadcast. A consequence of moving CE to Sunday?
PS I remember hearing Fernando Germani as a schoolboy in Glasgow and being blown away (almost literally) by the Reubke sonata.
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Some cats have official status. See:
http://www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk/whoswho.asp, and scroll to the end.
Keble College, Oxford
in The Organ
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I believe the present organ in St Thomas's came from another Bristol church, St Werburgh's, now a climbing centre, and was fitted into the original case. I can't provide any references as NPOR seems to be doing funny things.