Hi Set master level to around 3/4 of maximum - I find this gives plenty of level to the mixer, much lower and the inevitable background noise creeps in, higher can reveal distortion that's not noticeable on the built-in speakers. If you're in a live performance situation feeding a sound desk at the ...

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Compton church rgans often make good cinema organ sounds with the trems. on.

Thanks Hugh The Viscount range, especially their organs using their Physis real time computer simulation technology are, IMHO, by far the best sounding digital organs around. The voicing can be tweaked quite significantly. Earlier this year I had Jeremey Meager of Cotswold do some re-voicing, which ...

Hi Thanks Hugh. Actually, I can manage quite well on most pedalboards. I used to regularly play a Hammond L-100 (spinet style) in a church where I was organist. More recently, my home practice organ was a Cavendish portable - again a spinet-style 13 note pedalboard. My Nord C2D has the Nord Pedals 1...

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Yes, the first 4 are not exactly well known!

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A mixed bag of organ voluntaries, some Victorian in style, a couple from the Early English era, and a couple of others. First up one of two pieces by Caleb Simper. This is tuneful music, fairly simple to play, and has remained in print for decades. W5-sS2kNyfw Another item from the same composer xdo...

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Another of Noel Rawsthorne's compositions, this time based on the Londonderry Air, which is also used as a hymn tune.



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Another item from my sessions earlier in the month. This was written by one of my Facebook friends. Ivan Furlanis is an organist and composer in Italy. I play this on the Content 224 Compact Digital Organ at Wolston Baptist Church.

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I recorded a few bits and pieces earlier in the month and eventually got round to sorting out the video edits. This short prelude is by Noel Rawsthorne.



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Hi I'm fortunate that all 3 of my main camcorders have a line-in facility. You might have to hunt for it in the menu system (or actually read the instruction manual! - these days you'll probably have to download the full manual to get this sort of information - most users don't even think beyond the...

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Maybe I'll take a look at the software when I find time.

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Hi I couldn't find any free or budget video edit software that allowed subtitles when I was looking to upgrade last year when I needed to add lyrics for the recordings I was making for church. I got round in (Premiere Elements) by taking one of the standard title layouts and modifying it (size of te...

Thanks for the comments. Carloss, there's a couple of pictures of the organ towards the end of construction back in 2019 on the NPOR web site, for example https://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/XMLFunctions.cgi?Fn=GetPicture&Rec_index=E02110&Number=1 The details of the organ can be found on NPOR (h...

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An organ version of Graham Kendrick's worship song "Soften my heart, Lord", recordedd live during the service at Wolston Baptist Church on 27th June 2021 (no singing due to Covid regulations)




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From an organists' association visit on 26th June, I play this on the new Henry Groves pipe organ in St. Martin, Barcheston, Warwickshire.




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Hi Last Saturday (27/06/21) the Coventry & Warwickshire Organists' Association visited a newly built pipe organ (first "in person" meeting since Feb 2020!). I recorded these items there (St. Martin, Barcheston. Organ by Henry Groves of Nottingham) First up is an Allegro by William Hers...

Hi Good luck with selling this. It's taken me a long time to find a new home for my HS8. Moving one assembled is definitely a 2 man job, but it went in the back of my MPV with no problems. As you say, it can be dismantled - and will then fit in a large saloon (which was how mine was delivered) - but...

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My fingers aren't as nimble as they used to be - I guess the arthritis is spreading to them as well, but I'll keep playing as long as I can.

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I was too busy playing to see what else was happening. I did notice something being given to some people, but I've no idea what!

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Since we're not distributing material on line from church now we're open again, I've not been recording so much. However, I took a single camera last Sunday and recorded my closing voluntary. It's rather fun.




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Hi Relevant information there Hugh. If you have proper meters in your system, then zero dB on a VU meter (5 on a PPM) should be set to correspond with -18dBfs on the digital recorder (some "standards say -20 & I've also come across -12. Don't you just love standards - that's why we have so ...

Thanks for the positive comments. Feeling a bit rough at the moment- it seems my heart failure meds. might need adjusting. I've got a telephone consultation tomorrow, so I'll see what transpires. Busy week with a rehearsal later today & a funeral on Thursday with a professional soloist. I'll sor...

Hi As you will probably have guessed, we've stopped providing recordings for our "Sunday at Home" worship now the church is open again (and I'm enjoying having a bit more time each week!) However, I have made a couple of "live" recordings at church over the last couple of weeks. ...

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Hi We have a family service on Easter Sunday, so sadly only one traditional hymn, and the voluntaries will be on line only as there's an Easter Egg hunt for the youngsters before the service! (Definitely NOT my idea). We start with a classical piece by French composer Alexandre Guilmant, and his &qu...

Hi Here's the music I've recorded for our Good Friday virtual service at Wolston. The opening music is this track from my archives:- 5588ztfSVfM The opening hymn is the classic "There is a green hill far away" KVN23K6o1Y4 The next hymn is "When I survey the wondrous cross" iT3Rsi...

Thanks John I wasn't familiar with 2 of the songs either until I got the hymn list last Tuesday! They were a bit of a nightmare to sort out - the notation in the "Songs of Fellowship" books isn't always as clear as it should be. Add to that the "off beat" nature of a lot of the m...

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Hi Here's this Sunday's selection. I'm rather disappointed that our preacher this week hasn't chosen any traditional Easter hymns - the closest is Graham Kendrick's "Make Way". I do play an organ interpretation of "Ride on, Ride on in majesty" though, and, by request, a reprise o...

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Hi It's that time of week again! I've changed the piano/keyboard rig around, adding a 13 note Hammond pedalboard to control the "pedal" section of the Viscount Cantorum, whilst the piano now plays the "Manual 1" stops, plus my vintage Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesiser (not visible ...

Hi Hugh The routing of sounds in the Viscount follows a typical pipe organ layout, so sounds coming from different places across the audio field is correct. They shouldn't be hard left & hard right (they definitely aren't on my original video files, and I've not noticed You Tube changing that). ...

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Thanks for the comments. Carloss - the Harmonium is unusual for a folding reed organ in being voiced mildly, presumably because of it's intended use in Sunday Schools accompanying children. Most portable reed organs are voiced loud and bright. The piano is very basic as digital pianos go, but not to...