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Michael Powell and Francis Rumsey recorded these two well-known arias from Handel’s Messiah to demonstrate the Regent Classic chamber organ in an accompaniment role. On the chamber organ you’ll hear either the eight-foot stopped diapason alone, or that and the four-foot flute together. Organ Accompaniment for two Arias from Handel’s Messiah Handel wrote Messiah to…
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It was just before Christmas that we were in fact approached by two UAE based companies to quote for the provision of a digital organ for the Papal Mass on February 5th 2019. Not really a long time at all considering all the logistics that had to be arranged just to get an instrument airborne…
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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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