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Or a Hauptwerk sample set of an organ compared with the real organ, live, in the same building - a "battle of the organs". Did they do that in Salisbury when they, I think, had a hauptwerk installed using the Salisbury sample set?

What is "pedal movements" listed among the couplers on the church website?

Possibly St Patrick's Cathedral in Dundalk or even St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin though that organ was finished after the great man's death. I note that the organ is tuned to Valotti temperament.

Apparently not!

It was in G on the Radio service - at least on "catch up" in 'sounds' it is.

Yes, but so many? No carols to my mind till 4 lessons and 34 minutes in: just Christmas anthems and hymns.

I watched the programme "King Charles lll, the Coronation Year" which spent a very long time going through the tiniest details of the preparation for the Coronation; the Gospel Choir was featured but there was no mention at all the the cathedral musicians or Pappano. Extraordinary.

It is very well produced - it looks and feels very like NEH - though thicker. so there might be problems with it staying open.

I have been looking through this book and there are lots of new hymns and new tunes. The tunes seem pretty good though I've only glanced through them. I wonder how many will catch on. However I wonder if the book will mainly be of use to cathedrals and the more rarified churches. In my church we have a diet of fairly traditional hymns (I choose them) but even we sing many that the Revised EH doesn't include. It seems to me to be the complete opposite of Hymns Old and New: it included everything regardless of quality but this new book seems to me to have gone to the opposite extreme. Here are a few hymns it doesn't have which I think are sung by most churches; would they want to buy a new set of books that excluded them? I realise that I'm probably in a minority of one and that organists here will applaud the insistence on musical standards, and I'm not saying that I personally like many of the following: As the deer pants for the water Beauty for brokenness Brother, sister, let me serve you From heaven you came, helpless babe Give me joy in my heart I, the Lord of sea and sky In Christ alone (I know there are theological problems with this) Make me a channel of your peace Meekness and majesty O Lord my God (How great thou art) Seek ye first the kingdom Shine, Jesus, shine When I needed a neighbour

It's arrived (from the RSCM). Beautifully printed and bound. At first glance it doesn't seem that exciting.

I'm sure that's right, though it hadn't occurred to me. You can't really blame them, I suppose, they can't have expected such a lengthy delay. They haven't been very honest about it, though, and it's not as if they don't make plenty of money out of us all!

I ordered it 2 years ago from Amazon. They kept giving me revised delivery dates but this morning told me the order was cancelled due to "a lack of availability". What's going on now? Edit: sorry I see Martin Cooke has just posted the same thing!

The melody edition being rushed out on the 30th April (according to the Amazon website)

That's good to know, Steve - I was beginning to wonder!

Has anyone got a copy yet? I ordered it, years ago, from Amazon. Last week they told me it was coming before 11 pm on Friday, but now say it's currently unavailable!

I mentioned on a previous topic that if the whistle block is on it will cause distortion with middle to high organ notes. I have it turned off on my "music" setting (and organ one). My audiologist had never heard of this so it's worth my mentioning it again. I also have top of the range Phonaks and they are good - if perhaps not really worth the extra money. Mine can be controlled through my phone and I can stream the television directly to them. Also any music or speech on the phone. There is a basic equaliser on programmes. I still can't hear very high notes and I have no idea if what I'm hearing is what people with "normal" hearing experience. Stephen

Gosh! I'm not rushing to buy a copy.

I thought it was improvising until I saw there was a copy. Karl Jenkins?

I started playing the organ to copy my older brother (8 years older) who was by then an FRCO. I was lucky to have a very encouraging church organist who, after I stopped singing treble, got me sitting on the organ bench beside him. He would say "you play this one" just before a hymn and, later, liked to instruct me what key to modulate into during last verses. (I cheated and had a go at all the hymns in advance!) He was a very fine musician and organist, though he never practised and voluntaries were sometimes a bit approximate. I am very grateful to him. I played for my first service when he forgot to turn up one Sunday. My father was the vicar so I was able to practise whenever I wanted - a great luxury. Sadly I never practised the piano properly and so my organ playing is not as good as it should be. Nor is my sight-reading up to much. Still, I've played in churches for about 55 years and have played for services in, I think, 38 cathedrals in England and Ireland over the years.

Yes! Sorry, forgot the link.

Does anyone know anything more about this? It may be old news.

If they'd been quicker off the mark they could have beaten St John's, Cambridge to the Brighton one: https://npor.org.uk/survey/N00951 With a couple of mutations, solo strings and a 32' or two they'd have been well set up. Are St John's keeping the Trompeta Real?

Amazon now going for 30th November.

There is the wonderful setting of Stanford's tune 'Engleberg' for "For all the saints" in the old A&M revised. This is the tune now used for "When in our music God is glorified". (Shamefully modern editors removed the first beat - it's definitely part of the tune, not a "door-knocker"! The latest A&M has it right). I arranged this for "When in our music" using some of Stanfords varied harmonies for verses 3 - 5 which I think works well. If anyone wants a copy PM me. Stephen

What about the Eucharist, though?