DouglasCorr
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Clearly Vuvuzelas appeal to the masses. Then let us seize the moment and have a Vuvuzela Chorus 16 8 4 on every organ. Have thousands at recitals!... Crowd control... black market in recital tcikets.....
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Maybe I haven't read everything but (in John Sayers post)
"We're very excited about the Harmonics Division - it contains more than 100 microtonal steps to the octave throughout the entire compass of the organ (as compared to the normal 12 steps to each octave) and from its ranks we will be able to derive the vast array of mutations you see in the stop list. But it can of course also be used to create extraordinarily original undulating stops (celestes) ranging from just a hint of an undulation to an extremely thick and pulsating sound — all done with the use of normal, acoustic pipework. And each pipe in the Harmonics Division can be operated individually as well as assigned individually to each keyboard, it's entirely possible to work with microtonal scales of any complexity.
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Can some one say plainly please how you access these 100 microtonal steps per octave from 12 keys per octave. Surely to get full advantage of the microtones you need to define how many keys to allocate to an octave as well. Of course you will also have to learn to play the new keyboard set up too!
PS Microtonal enthusiasts may also be interested in the Fluid Piano recently lauched on the South Bank (e.g. Fluid Piano)- which although "fluid" in terms of the tuning of the strings (although limited to I think a tone each way)- is fixed by access from a conventional keyboard.
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It's not looking good to be honest, judging by what I've read.
First the BAD news, which includes the following possible causes:
Nerve injury
Spinal problems
Pressure on nerves
Shingles
Lack of blood supply to a specific area
Carpal tunnel syndrome (pressure on the wrist)
Diabetes
Migraines
Multiple sclerosis
Seizures
Stroke
Transient ischemic attack (TIA), sometimes called a "mini-stroke"
Underactive thyroid
Raynaud's phenomenon
Abnormal levels of calcium, potassium, or sodium in your body
A lack of vitamin B12 or other vitamin
Use of certain medications
Toxic nerve damage due to lead, alcohol, or tobacco
Radiation therapy
Don't forget it could also easily be polonium poisoning....
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Some mice are really insensitive to use and have a terrible shape. My favourite is currently the Logitech MX400 Performance mouse - instantly comfortable like a 60s Harrison console...
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In the RSI pedalling thread, Douglas Corr wrote:
too much practice all of a sudden - take days off
I just wonder how many professional or semi-professional - or indeed any organist - finds it benefical to take a day or two off now and then? I took a day oiff yesterday and my playing this morning - not in public thankfully - was dreadful. But when I went to the States last year and didn't play for a week on my return my playing was pretty good (for me, that is!).
Peter
What I wrote, concerning help for someone with a joint problem, is simply something that any sportsman knows about their bodies, whatever it is that they do, that trying to come from a low level of training sudddenly to a high level is very likely to lead to a detremental result - they will have a strain or worse.
Your new thread is rather different; if you are already fully trained and you have a bad performance after a day off then I imagine the possibilities are- most likely you didn't warm up enough, you were tired for some reason, or you were not as well in training as you thought.
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I have just noticed, on the back of the latest Organists Review, an advert for an arrangement of Ravel's Bolero!
Perhaps a candidate for a RSI health warning????
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my wife and I suggest
- too much practice all of a sudden - take days off
- take cod liver oil
- do you generally have enough exercise? - particularly walking! but general exercise and posture are also important
- check organ bench height and distance
Also consider if your new pedal board requires an unusual depth of touch (too shallow, too deep) to make notes sound, or if the springs are too light.
and, finally, is the rail under the bench in a convenient position?
hope things get better soon..
- too much practice all of a sudden - take days off
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Question solved.
I contacted the DOM, Nigel Kerry, at The Church of Our Lady & The English Martyrs, Cambridge, and he most kindly informed me that the tune used for 'Lead Kindly Light' is 'Lux in Tenebris' by Dom Gregory Murray in 'The Westminster Hymnal'.
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I am unable to listen to the broadcast from my current location, but could it be the setting from Howard Goodall's Eternal Light? That ought to be Youtubeable and eliminated as a contender.
Why anyone would want to use anything other than Alberta is completely beyond me.
Thank you for your suggestion, but its not the Goodall one ......
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Could anyone tell me please which tune was used for Lead kindly Light on this mornings Morning Worship? What a fine tune; stopped me in my tracks.....
(At time 22 min 50 sec on listen again)
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I found an organ pipe in the gutter outside Christ Church Woburn Square....
Hill organ and Church now demolished.
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I'm so cross - Sullivan is no where - despite my post no20
When will Message Boarders use E Power to change the world?
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My Easter...
On Easter Day I was in St Sulpice and at the end of High Mass there was a most wonderful accolade from the Preist in charge, and much applause, to mark the 25th anniversary of Daniel Roth's appointment .
Later, after all the services were finished, someone (Daniel Roth?) played.... the Widor Toccata!
Perhaps its not too soon to be thinking about the 150th anniversary of the organ in 2012.
After such a sublime morning I made a huge mistake by going to St Eustache where Guillou, who will be 80 later this month, played Listz's Ad nos - I'd never heard this organ before and I would think this was the worst possible choice of music to play on it, I'm afraid it sounded complete nonsense, if Salvador Dali could have played the organ, I'm sure he would have used the same tone colours .... I think Guillou's playing has its own unique mastery, but the organ....
Oh, I nearly forgot, there was one person who clearly enjoyed every second of the Ad Nos, he was a strange fellow standing in the aisle facing towards the organ who enacted all the organ sounds.....
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Maybe it came from Ede and Ravenscroft, perhaps ask them?
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Didn't the RFH at one time have an electronic 'reverberation' system?
How well did it work with the organ?
The London County Council designed a system to extend the reverberation period of the Hall by using several hundred Helmholz resonators in the ceiling. The length of the reverberation was controllable.
I think it was used as much for the organ as for orchestras.
However I did not notice any particular resonance - but I'm sure you could have heard a differnece if it was turned off.
There was a more noticable difference between a half full and a full auditorium; eventhough the seats were intended to have the same sound absorbtion when empty as when occupied.
Last Sunday I heard Baremboim playing the Emperor concerto at the RFH, my first visit since it reopened, and thought the acoustics were remarkably clear and supportive for the piano and orchestra. But there was no sort of reverberation that an organ would really like!
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It appears that musical instruments are going to be removed from display at the V&A museum. I can't begin to understand the thinking behind this completely retrograde action. Perhaps Message Boaders can find out more and consider signing the petition here.
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Vote Sullivan Lost Chord!
people get what they deserve....
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Found this (arr. Reger):
I think I prefer the real thing as played by Horowitz:
Me too!!
This organ version takes nearly twice as long !
Lucky it takes a lot to kill a great musical idea....
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Attending the service in the building is magical and merely listening on the radio is not the same, although once you have been, the radio broadcast still brings back the tingle factor.
It is a wonderful thing to be present at great events - but seated in the nave - do you hear very much of the carols? I'm sure the congregational hymns are really inspiring - but the distant sound of the choir? Even attending evensong in the Quire at Kings, the choir sounds distant.
I imagine that what we hear on the radio is effectively what the choir master hears in the carols and what the organist hears in the hymns - what couldn't be better?
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Nice idea....bad economics.
"Children in Need" managed £22m this time, takes a year to organise, has a vast publicity machine and gets thousands of people involved across the UK.
Selby need £750,000, in a town with a population of perhaps 35,000.......about £21.50 for every man, woman and child.
MM
Hmmmm. St Davids has a population of 2000 yet has recently raised around £4,000,000 for the rebuilding of the Cloisters and other work including the rebuild of the organ in a magnificent new oak case and with a new West Choir division. The former Dean, now Bishop of St Davids, started the fund raising basically from scratch.
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Four manual Johannus for over a grand ?
Ebay item no 140353408192
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More exciting than the Grand National!-....with 15 minutes to go Bidders 8 and 9 are neck and neck! And now with 10 minutes to go Bidder 10 takes the lead; 8 can't stand the pace!! 9 and 10 are slugging it out!!! And its 10 seconds to go! Wohah!!! Out of nowhere Bidder 11 jumps into the lead! Yes its Bidder 11!!!!! Hurrah!
Four manuals - four grand!
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Several years ago I went to a recital by Wayne Marshall at Reading Town Hall.
I couldn't stand the speed of everything and left at half time - I've never done this before or since.
He introduced one piece saying something like - "I think most people play this too slowly. I play it one in a bar." To me it sounded like one in a page!
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Looks fantastic!
Enormous specification looks fantastic too! Spec. Lots of stops per £ !
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More exciting than the Grand National!-
Vuvuzela Chorus
in Nuts and bolts
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Whenever I hear the Vuvuzela I now think of England.
It has therefore become the sound which one requires for patriotic services- St George's Day, Founder's Day, Final Term Service and such like.
ENGLAND!