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Just after Christmas and with minimal notice we were asked if we could supply our chamber organ for a performance of the Vivaldi Gloria and Handel’s Coronation Anthems given by the Kinder Choirs of the High Peak at Buxton Opera House. Buxton Opera House – an architectural gem I have never visited the venue but…
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Our chamber organ was first revealed to the public at the Manchester Conference of Diocesan Organ Advisors in August 2018. I could not go but perhaps given the controversial nature of our technology may not have been enthusiastically received. By all accounts the instrument was reasonably well regarded. Could one ever get a ‘pipecentric’ gathering…
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Marcel Dupré was one of the foremost French organ virtuoso’s of his time, an heir to the great tradition of Romantic French organ playing and composing. Dupré was famed for his ability to improvise; he also composed substantial works and was a widely travelled recitalist and an influential teacher. What is perhaps less well known…
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I am sure that any traditional organ builder will tell you not to plan the opening recital for until at least 3 and even better 6 months after the organ is due to be commissioned. More often than not builds run late not early, encounter problems and prudence dictate a wide margin for error is…
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It is very gratifying when a plan comes together, especially one as complex as this involving a large plinth, 4 manuals, 7 amplifiers, 42 speaker cabinets, 85 playing stops and 12,000 miles travel to the job. To say it went without a hitch would be an exaggeration but it did most certainly go well and…
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I would be surprised if ever again we have a challenge so great as to have to prepare 2 custom instruments for simultaneous shipment to customers 12000 miles away. With staff flights to New Zealand booked weeks ahead any delay in the instruments dispatch would mean our team was in place but no instrument was…
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So called ‘organ battles’ have been around for years but I suppose did not feature much in musical life until it was possible to move an electronic instrument into a venue to ‘compete’ with the pipe organ. There are some well known venues with more than one pipe organ but the second instrument is often…
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The Skinner style organ has been created for customers who require a Skinner voiced instrument and wish to invest in a console that draws extensively on the design features of period Skinner instruments. The console you see in the videos below is a near perfect copy of an original Skinner Organ built in 1929 for…
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