DouglasCorr

Well it's new compared to the standard notation! But if you clicked on my link you could have found out its actual history! It's surprising that composers in Holland would want to publish their music in a manner that can be only played by the few, and with magnifying glasses.

I seem to be having one problem after another these days: car, computer virus, credit card fraud, drain.... I was looking forward to my copy of the Ab Weegenaar Psalm 22 arriving, I thought it would not be difficult to learn.... I had ordered it from the site tracked down as mentioned above, with the funny Dutch name "Klavarscribo"- I thought just the right sort of name for a music publisher! It came really quickly! Then I opened it - what a nasty shock! It looked like it was in a hieroglyphic Chinese code - more than a job for Bletchley Park! I found out that Klavarskribo is an "easy to learn new notation" - I now know what the funny keyboard logo on the Klavarscribo site meant! Really, life is too short for all this (I hope my post has not made anyone else make the same mistake!!)... Anyone know how to quickly transcribe it?

Yes indeed! I thought the Ab Weegenaar Psalm 22 very interesting - after a long struggle I located here what I hope is the the score, Message Boarders might be interested. *****PPS (April 22) I have just found out that this is published in the Klavarscribo notation!****** PS You can have a look at the first two pages of Psalm 22 Variation 3 at the end of this download

I'm sure that Message Boarders will be really pleased to know that there is, and what is now becoming, a rare opportunity to hear the Collins Organ at Turner Sims. On Tuesday 28th April Thomas Trotter will be playing all the Bach Trio Sonatas. What a fantastic combination of music, player and organ! Not many organs will cope with one sonata, let alone the whole lot! Hear for yourselves...

I'm going to Paris, the Capital of Organs, its Music and its Players. 3 services in St Sulpice, 1 sevice and a concert at Notre Dame. Ah..... I wish you all an inspiring Easter.

Good one - try the new Diaphone Chorus!

50p expensive!? You can't get anything for 50p these days!! Do you think that the church should subsidise practice? In 1960 I paid 2/6 per hour for a large 3 manual in the centre of London, this was a fairly normal charge - adjusted by the RPI that comes to £2/hour in 2009.

Simon, I hope it is not too late to be added to your list of attendees for your generous offer of a demonstration please? Regards, Douglas

Sunday morning radio is full of dreadful shocks - I turned on to Radio Three this morning only to hear an unspeakably crude arrangement of a Bach organ fugue by Elgar - I don't know why the BBC thinks orchestral transcriptions of organ music are better to listen to than the real thing - there seems to be some strange preconceptions of listners mental capacity......

Milton "L'Allegro ed Il Penseroso" ....To walk the studious Cloysters pale. And love the high embowed Roof, With antick Pillars massy proof, And storied Windows richly dight, Casting a dimm religious light. There let the pealing Organ blow, To the full-voic'd Quire below, In Service high, and Anthems cleer, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into exstasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. .... ...I would not have remembered this except for Handel's setting.....

Might be worth searching in here - but I don't know what you have to do if you find they have it! PS I had some organ lessons with Frederick Carter in Vancouver. He was extremely proud to say that he had had lessons with Darke, whom he thought to be the leading British organist of the time. Sadly I do not remember that anything was passed on to me, except a few casual suggestions as to where I could solo returns of Bach fugue subjects, which I have now forgotten.......

I would be interested to get an idea of how much "minor" tuning adjustments are typically possible with cone tuning, before the metal at the top of the pipe will start to crack. And also whether there is much difference in durability of high tin content compared to low tin content pipes. Are pipes with high tin content also more likely to suffer bending because of the need for more aggresive hammering of the cones - or is this balanced by their increased stiffness? hmmmm.... I don't recall seeing any sable brush treatment when my organ has been tuned...hmmmmm...

And I hope Santa puts a Trompette coudée à forte pression in all your stockings.

St Sulpice pedal board only goes to F - was this written for Dupre's American tours?

.....I've got my sign in the stars too!!! Birthday the same as E Power Biggs - its just got to be significant....!!...must be...

...some people say organists do not have a natural feeling for rhythm....

Tournemire, Improvisateur sans peer. And behold, quelle technique, Fifty two weeks of L'Orgue Mystique! (someone may regret they ever started this...)

....Hmmm. I just thought I would listen to the Advent Carols from Johns on Listen Again- only to find that, for some reason, it is not available on Listen Again.......!!??..... I don't know what the BBC scheme is - but you can't rely on anything.....

I've heard them now too to-night - the Royal Trumpets - Thomas Trotter explained that he would use them in Messiaen's Les Corps Glorieux - no prizes for guessing where. But from my seat under the Dome they were not as loud or as directional as I imagined they would be. In fact, like the whole recital, they were another artistic touch, not a blast or dreadful opaque honking.

Well it's hard to understand why one concert hall is closing, yet a new one at Kings Cross - the Kings Place concert hall - has just opened - aren't there enough concert venues already in central London? Aren't concerts well attended enough in Croydon to make it viable?

There is also a Clairon Doublette on the Grand-Choeur at St Sulpice and similar information would be interesting.

well i think you were lucky - having worked with computers since 1966 - i do not have the time or patience to mess about with sites put together without a sensible user perspective...

Just to say I have wasted half an hour trying to reply to OR questionair electronically ..... I have no idea if it sent -Ive ended up printing it out .... Nothing is worse than internet sites that, unlike this discussion board, are badly put together..

Daniel Chorzempa also played that RFH recital from memory and with immaculate style.

I agree. Before the concert I mused on what an excellent opportunity an improvisation would be to demonstrate the Royal Trumpets. As it turned out - perhaps they could have helped shape an improvisation which, while being technically masterful, had a structure which I have to say I could not follow..