Hi Just 2 hymns this week, plus a repeat of a recording I made many years ago on a real pipe organ. (Next week will be a bonanza with, if all goes to plan, no less than 10 hymns/songs for a Songs of Praise service!) Anyway, here's this week's offerings. No Remembrance Day service would be complete w...

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Hi Holidays are proving difficult this year! Not managed to get away at all - and probably won't for quite some time as I'm in the clinically vulnerable group and Covid infections are on their way up. GP has advised me to avoid gatherings of numbers of people (so no concerts). I had thought I'd have...

Thanks John

Certainly more recordings to come - we were planning a "Songs of Praise" style service in a couple of weeks, which will now go on-line only. Not sure how many hymns that's going to include!

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Tony

Thanks Carloss I'm very aware of the safety issues regarding the Covid situation, as I have several health issues. It was announced yesterday evening that England is going into a 4 week lockdown starting on Thursday (just watch the idiots break the rules before then!). Church will be closed after th...

Hi Just 2 hymns for the congregation this week - plus a bonus track. It's been a busy week, what with 2 hospital visits (one for a blood test & the other a research project I'm signed up for), plus an extra visit to church to meet with the organ technician & sort out a fault on my Content 22...

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I've been fortunate to be able to have afforded these instruments over the past years - it's useful to have a variety of sounds & styles of instruments available.

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Tony

Thanks Jon & Hugh. We use a "blended" style of worship at Wolston and the piano is more appropriate for some of the more modern songs (and some older hymns as well). I play whichever instrument I feel fits the mood of the song/hymn within the context of the service - especially as we h...

Hi Another week (a rather fraught one as I had builders in), but I did manage a bit of recording for church. The first hymn is a recording from a few weeks ago. The other 2 congregational pieces I decided to re-record and improve on earlier versions - plus there's a couple of instrumental items to e...

Hi John Thanks for his. The "Abba Father" setting looks easy, and in the main it is, but there are a couple of places where the left hand quavers don't go where you expect them to. As to my music, I know roughly where things are, but often have to hunt for a half-remembered piece that I kn...

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A little bit of bragging. I also post links to these videos on various Facebook groups, and my video of "Abba, Father" got a heart from the composer. Must be doing something right!

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Tony

Thanks Carloss.

Hi Half-way through October - Christmas is looming - and I thought these recordings for church would only be needed for a few weeks! Looks like there'll be quite a few more sessions yet. Anyway, here's this week's contributions, including one older recording being recycled! First up is the hymn &quo...

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Even though we're back at church (the improvisation was recorded there just over a week ago) it looks like recordings will continue for quite some time yet.

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Tony

Thanks Carloss Debain were a French firm of instrument makers who invented (and patented) the Harmonium - a pressure operated reed organ with the specific disposition of 4 ranks of reeds each in treble & bass halves of the keyboard, and a split at f#-g above middle C. The term "Harmonium&qu...

Hi Here's this week's selection - 3 worship songs chosen by the visiting preacher, and a couple of bonus tracks. First up is my opening voluntary from the service last week, recorded live (audio direct from the organ). It's rather shorter than I intended, and I don't try this sort of thing very ofte...

Hi Shame there's nothing on their front page to indicate what sort of forum it is! I doubt I'll bother - I spend far too much time on the internet as it is! The name "Keyboard Kapers" was the name of a keyboard show I presented on Hospital Radio Hastings for a while many, many years ago. E...

Thanks for the comments. The version of "The Day Thou Gavest" has references to snippets of the tune in the first part, plus a couple of passages where part of the melody is soloed. That's quite common with what are often called "Chorale Preludes", among other ways of basing new ...

Hi Two of this week's hymns/songs are ones I've recorded previously - the first two are new recordings, as is the "bonus track". ilhEdwaRJ8k Next a song by Graham Kendrick gf_ACwi6_Vc This one was new to me when I recorded it a while ago zRDMNgqbefw One of my late wife's favourite songs:- ...

Thanks for the comments. The new computer is certainly fast!

I realised after I got home from church yesterday that it was the first time I'd led & preached for a live service since July last year!

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Tony

Hi It's that time of the week again. All went quite smoothly this time, including using a very powerful "new to me" computer for the editing. Only problem is the changes between old & new versions of the editing programme which has changed a few things, including a function I was using...

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Hopefully the squirrels are dealt with. The only problem is that I daren't leave the back door into the garden open to try & get some fresh air into the place.

Thanks for the comments.

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Tony

No problem Carloss The squirrels here are the grey variety, introduced from, IIRC, the USA a long way ago, and they've come close to wiping out the native red squirrels, except in a few areas. If they get into property they can be very destructive, chewing mains wiring among other things, and leavin...

Hi Transpose buttons are a problem for some of us who have perfect pitch. Things can fall apart because the notes you hear aren't the notes you're playing. I still have nightmares about a big carol service where I used the transpose button - Hark the Herald sounded more like a modernist composer wit...

Hi I've not been too well this week - not helped (& in part triggered) by having to deal with a squirrel problem! Only one new recording - I persuaded our minister to chose a couple of the items I'd already recorded. Here's all 3. Sadly, no bonus track this week. Here's the new recording - the h...

Thanks Carlos

The first 2 sections of the Martin Mans are the (relatively) easy bit. There are several edits in the toccata though! It went pretty well live on Sunday morning - and got a round of applause!

Thanks again

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Tony

Thanks for the positive comments.

We plough is running OK this morning. Off to play the pieces live at church shortly - first service back in church since March.

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Tony

Hi Here's this week's selection. Since church is reopening, I thought I'd play something a bit challenging to open the service. It's an organ setting of the hymn known in the UK as "How Great Thou Art", by Dutch organist Martin Mans. Great fun, but a bit of a pig to play in places! TArDM6p...

No reason why not. Try it & see. The limitation may well be the quality of the microphone (unless you're using an external audio adapter).

I've done a couple of recordings on my old iPad when that was all I had around at the time.

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Tony

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Congratulations for yesterday. Sadly I won't get to celebrate 51 years with Sue as she died last year - but we did celebrate 50 years in July last year.

Back to church from next Sunday, but the recordings will continue for a while yet.

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Tony

Hi Here's my weekly contribution of music recorded for Wolston Baptist Church's service tomorrow. First up a fairly modern and distinctly up-tempo worship song. OgpnYQ-t4rk Next a hymn of faith - one that I've known for a very long time. Pf-5b54nXNI The communion hymn this week is Isaac Watt's class...

Well played. It's not as easy as it sounds.

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Tony

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Thanks for posting.

Steel Guitar is an instrument I'd love to get to grips with. Maybe one day!

That's quite some instrument he's playing. I've seen twin neck pedal steels, but never a quad before. You learn something every day.

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Tony

Hi I spent most of Saturday sorting out the recalcitrant computer. I eventually discovered the root of the problem ( a stupid labelling of a hard drive partition in the original pre-installed set-up that meant it was running on 1/3rd of the available hard drive space!) Eventually got the system rest...