AJJ Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Has anyone experience anything like this before? AJJ PS Maybe someone can recoginize the description of the culprit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barry Williams Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Has anyone experience anything like this before? AJJ PS Maybe someone can recoginize the description of the culprit. It looks as though it is a synthetic instrument rather than an organ. Is it possible for such a machine to be worth £60,000? Barry Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWAnderson Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 It looks as though it is a synthetic instrument rather than an organ. Is it possible for such a machine to be worth £60,000?Barry Williams Yes it does look like a digital. I hardly think that it would be worth 60,000p, but I have seen some that have been just a bit less than that. JA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted September 29, 2007 Author Share Posted September 29, 2007 It looks as though it is a synthetic instrument rather than an organ. Is it possible for such a machine to be worth £60,000?Barry Williams Undoubtedly synthetic - I wonder if anyone would ever be daft enough to mistakenly steal the detached console of a pipe organ - who knows!! AJJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Lauwers Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 .....An argument more against such things in churches!!! Pierre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrabombarde Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Here's rather more information about the theft. It was a 3-manual Allen, evidently stolen to order. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1550682007 http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/disp...1720755.0.0.php I don't want to sound prejudiced, but if I really wanted to go the trouble of stealing a toaster I wouldn't choose an Allen!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I wonder whether there's some other church in the area that has recently shelled out for a three-manual toaster at a bargain price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contrabordun Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Does the titulaire secretly want a pipe organ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cynic Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Here's rather more information about the theft. It was a 3-manual Allen, evidently stolen to order. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1550682007 http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/disp...1720755.0.0.php I don't want to sound prejudiced, but if I really wanted to go the trouble of stealing a toaster I wouldn't choose an Allen!!! I tell you what, £60k would buy the installation of an overhauled second-hand but thoroughly decent pipe organ of some size. Mind you, (my theory) some people favour electronics because they don't sound quite so bad when played poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazman Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Mind you, (my theory) some people favour electronics because they don't sound quite so bad when played poorly. And they can get a big console with a lot of stop-knobs with which to play around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contrabordun Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Well anyway, that's one less of them in circulation, and I think we can all raise a toast to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribunegallery Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I see from today's "Church Times" that the said toaster has now been recovered from a warehouse in Scotland and an individual has been arrested and charged with theft! NS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qazz Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Back in the seventies, when I used to work for the Bechstein agents as a piano tuner, a story went the rounds that at the Royal Festival Hall, where they often had a piano on hire for lunchtime music in the foyer area, a couple of men came in, dismantled a Steinway concert grand, strapped it to a shoe and wheeled it out. This was a commonplace happening there, since the pianos were hired. No-one thought to question the men, since they seemed to know what they were doing. The piano was never seen again...... Possibly apocryphal, but a nice story......so long as it wasn't your Steinway....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Well anyway, that's one less of them in circulation, and I think we can all raise a toast to that. Well I doubt the congregation and organist of that particular church will be raising a toast. What next? A pipe organ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barry Williams Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Well I doubt the congregation and organist of that particular church will be raising a toast. What next? A pipe organ? It is not so many years ago that a legitimate pipe organ builder served time for stealing pipes from one church organ and placing them in another. There is also the story of the Swell Chorus Reeds that did duty for a short while in a certain rc place before reaching their final destination.................! Barry Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lee Blick Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Which organ firm was that then, Barry? Or can you not say. It isn't related to a large venue somewhere in London north of the river is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cynic Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I heard tell of a similar situation.... in this case the organbuilder was taking pipes from one of his own organs to put in another. It's a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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