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  1. Thank you James Atherton for the full answer to my question. I look forward to hearing the result in due course.
  2. I would be interested to know whether refurbishing the case pipes means they will still be able to be played in the new organ or will become dummies again.
  3. Christopher Allsop is currently Assistant Director of Music at The King's School, W orcester , and will be moving to Eton College in January 2023 as Organist and Academic Music Teacher.
  4. The Directory of British Organ Builders (DBoB), which can be found online with a 'tab' on the NPOR, is looking to update their information from the 1950's onwards and I'm sure would welcome you sending this information to them.
  5. St John's College, Cambridge Newcastle Anglican Cathedral - are they getting a new organ or a rebuild? St Barnabas, Oxford - Willis pipework from Sheffield Anglican Cathedral Worcester Cathedral Transept organ
  6. There are pictures of the polyphones at Bridlington and Christchurch Priory on the NPOR.
  7. I wonder why people always think of compromising the top note. We did very well for years without a bottom C sharp!
  8. Martin Renshaw in his 2018 book the 'ABC of a medieval church' has a paragraph on 'Acoustic jars' in his section on chancel acoustics. Apparently in some places large acoustic clay jars were placed either under the choir stalls or in side walls high above the singers. Examples cited include Lyddington in Rutland, St Clement's in Sandwich and Leeds in Kent near a priory and a royal castle. Their purpose has been much discussed but they are found in buildings 'where there would have been proficient , sophisticated and sensitive musician-singers'.
  9. The 'picture' of the French Romantic positive organ above reminds me of an article in 'Organ Building' Volume Fourteen (2014) published by the IBO. Titled 'Monsieur Debierre's Polyphone Organ' , John Rowntree introduces the 1922 Le Mintier and Gloton organ (1919 successors to L Debierre) now in the Catholic Church of SS Peter and Paul Yeadon, Leeds, while Geoffrey Griffiths (organ builder from Portsmouth) explores the rejuvenation of this wonder of a bygone age. There are several colour pictures including two of the polyphones (and two weighted fly pallets built into the bottom of a wooden pipe fed from two pipe feet).
  10. I think you will find that the author of that Bracebridge text on a facebook thread has since admitted that he made the whole thing up.
  11. This is not the only Christmas tree organ as I recall pictures on the internet of two either side of the chancel of a church at the front of the nave. Unfortunately, I can not remember the name of the church!
  12. The sloping top to the 6 manual console should stop the flower arrangers in their tracks. However, I note the seating arrangements provide for two nice pot plants / palms on either side of the organist so all is not lost!
  13. I am sorry to hear of this. I first saw her play at Reading Town Hall (possibly in the early 1970's?). Earnest Davey of HN&B had tuned the organ before her recital but called in on the day she was trying things out and asked whether any notes needed to be adjusted. She came out with a request that Earnest had never heard before or since in his long tuning career. Would you polish the pedals for me, which he did! When later on we saw her footwork we understood why. A wonderful recital.
  14. Not sure the text will be readable as I have had to reduce the size for it to load.
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