Organ matters - Organs matter!

Among my archive of recordings two stand out greatly.

I was asked to tune a concert piano in Scotland for a violin recital and I used a temperament utilising many perfect fifths. With these perfect intervals, sounds become still, vibrations being concordant rather than beating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7AoF3zvcaI is a piece very well known in the violin repertoire. It's the Brahms violin sonata composed on the edge of Lake Thun.

I promise you this is worth listening to. You'll think the performance is ordinary to begin with . . . but then let it sink in. You will see as never before the calm mirror flat water of the lake, occasionally ruffled by eddies of wind and birds flying across and droplets of water splashing on the shores.

Likewise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAPVSlKR8OM Mozart K378 in B flat you'll never have heard so calming.

The effect of harmonic accordance is well demonstrated by a harpsichord with rich harmonic content exemplified by the Sperrhake at around 35 minutes or so into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQThFU-Wj8w where the sound of this simple instrument actually builds in an effect not dissimilar to that which we experience on the organ.

Best wishes

David P

Penponds Bible Christians Church (Now closed)
Church Road Camborne Cornwall TR14 0QE 

SW63563 39248

NPOR   G01806

The original builder is unknown but the organ was restored by George Osmond of Taunton.

It is sited on a choir gallery at the east end of the building.

The music lid key has been lost. The organ is probably single manual. It has a 25 note pedal board.

It has 7 speaking stops; 6 manual (enclosed) and 1 pedal (unenclosed)

Manual ranks probably 888842

Pedal rank probably 16



Pedalboard: Parallel Flat

Originally hand-pumped; pump handle still in situ.

The instrument has not been used for 25 years and the motor is disconnected.

The chapel is in the hands of a new owner who does not want to discard the organ and is anxious to relocate it. It is immediately available and is offered in whole or in part.

Buyer makes all arrangements for removal. Please direct enquiries to the contact below.

Contact:

Ms Donna Burnell

Email: donnaburnell@hotmail.co.uk

Tel:‎ 07970485978

We have just moved to a new server.

Forum hosting costs are horrible. Any contributions are welcome!

If anyone notices any oddities please let me know.

Best wishes

David P

http://www.orguenville.com/



1-12 August 20 concerts

37 concerts 12 places 5th July



I think that they mean August instead of July below . . .

Mercredi 1er juillet 
18h – Café de l'Hermitage     Le Café des artistes
20h30 – Cathédrale Saint-Jean     Les Lumières de la Ville                 
Vendredi 3 juillet     
20h30 et 22h – Chapelle de Refuge   Leçons de Ténèbres
Samedi 4 juillet         
18h – Café de l'Hermitage     Conférence
20h30 – Le Scénacle     Diderot et la machine à couleurs 
Dimanche 5 juillet   
à partir de 11h15 – La Boucle   MUSIQUE A VOIR
18h30 – Grand Kursaal     Je l'ai cherchée dans la nuit           
Lundi 6 juillet                             
20h30 – Église de Franois  De l'ombre à la lumière
Mardi 7 juillet           
20h30 – Église de Pesmes   Diderot et la machine à couleurs   
Mercredi 8 juillet         
A partir de 9h    Orgue en bus
Théâtre de plain air de Bannans   Les Temps Modernes   
Vendredi 10 juillet   
11h30 – Place de la Révolution   Les petits concerts du marché
18h – Café de l'Hermitage     Le café des artistes
20h30 – Église Saint-Louis  Lux aeterna – Ecce Homo                 
Samedi 11 juillet     
11h30 – Collégiale de Dole   Les petits concerts du marché     
21h – Église Sainte-Madeleine  Synesthésie                                     
Dimanche 12 juillet 
à partir de 14h30    La Route des chapelles                 
18h – Kursaal    Requiem de Mozart       


Bienvenue sur le site d'Orgue en Ville
Circulez,  y'a tout à Voir !! ... et à Entendre !Affiche 2015
Quand la musique devient couleur, quand la danse dessine la toile, quand les notes inspirent le peintre, quand le tableau devient musique...

Cette année Orgue en Ville porte un regard sur la lumière dans son expression physique et symbolique et dans sa relation au son : ciné-concerts, concerts à la bougie, light painting, synesthésie, rite de la lumière...rien que pour les yeux ...et pour les oreilles.

Suite au succès 2014, Orgue en Ville vous propose une journée MUSIQUE A VOIR : une quarantaine de « tableaux » pour déambuler dans la ville comme dans un musée.

De nouveaux partenaires nous accompagnent dans l'aventure : le Cortège d'Orphée, jeune ensemble en résidence,  les collectifs bisontins d'animations lumière  Nushy Soup et Spot Light ou encore l'orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté.  Et nous aurons le privilège d'entendre Michael Lonsdale dans une lecture et le compositeur-improvisateur Thierry Escaich (Victoire de la Musique 2003 et 2006).
Orgue en Ville c'est, cette année encore, de multiples créations mêlant la musique à la danse, aux claquettes, aux arts graphiques, au théâtre, aux effets visuels ... Des rencontres insolites.

Déambulez ! Ecoutez et Regardez l'orgue autrement !

Et bienvenue à tous!

L Équipe du festival

I'd normally put this under electronic organs but some pipe organs use Midi also . . .

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Whilst in the car last evening around 8.30pm it was a great pleasure to hear the Reubke Sonata from a concert at Durham Cathedral and this week features CM Widor as composer of the week. Well worth listening for.

Best wishes

David P

Time and time again I see cliques in groups on facebook throwing their wisdom into the etheric morass of social media.

Not indexed by search engines, what enthusiasm can facebook spread?

Is there a problem using forum sites like this on mobile devices? Or is the forum dead?

Best wishes

David P

Hi!

I have not written here for a long time thinking that controversial thoughts were driving people away. But people seem to have gone away from organs for lack of interest and clearly organs and all about them is not appreciated as being of relevance to people any more.

Somewhere else I read that it was difficult to find groups of kind people who gave support to others . . .

We are all linked by decisions, and matter (including us) exists where two decisions meet. We are all boats on an invisible sea of circumstances composed of the links of decisions. This invisible interconnectedness of cause and consequence, result, is all powerful, invisible, and everywhere. Societies wanting to farm humans as animals serving temporary political or pecuniary empires often think they can kill the idea but it will always rise again, because it is fundamental.

This is why Easter is so fundamental. Jesus represented the Creator on earth, that force of Creation by which all comes into being, is here, that love that makes matter cooperate at every level to provide support and substance for all other matter and the creation of new matter in combination.

What does not love, what does not cooperate, does not produce, create, and therefore ceases to exist, so that nothing that is here that exists exists as a result of anything else but the love, cooperation that enabled it to come into being. The stuff that doesn't love, hasn't cooperated, isn't here. We are made of the stuff that is cooperation, love, but forget what we are made of. When we understand of what we are made, then we operate in its image, as its sons and daughters.

Many people exist only seeing the boats, but not the sea that supports and drives them. They see the people but not the decisions, that in multiplicity amount to circumstances, that put them there.

People who understand measure the depth of the sea so as to avoid rocks, they observe the currents in the sea and they put up their sails to the wind. Without effort the currents of the sea and the wind can take you to hit the rocks but knowing how to navigate helps you equally without effort to seek refuge with other boats on the sea. Many people see a lighthouse and simply think they are safest to get out their own oars and row very fast towards it - and some make it safely whilst others hit the rocks of which the lighthouse signs.

So the point is that if one travels life unknowing, one ventures into water which may be benign or it may contain sharks.

Instead I recommend people to swim in the waters of kind people.

There are many enlightened people here who understand, because those who understand the benefit that the harmony of sound can bring understand a lot more. But there are other places too where higher densities of kind people congregate in the real world and focus upon the perils and dangers of the night (darkness, unknowing) and give thoughts to those in peril on the sea.

By seeking out congregations of warm people who swim in kind waters it's possible to see the world as a better place, and even to bring that betterness into result.

With warm wishes for a Happy Easter,

David P

There are some interesting instruments on ebay at the moment
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Two-Manual-Chamber-Church-Pipe-Organ/151595972159 This is a two rank plus pedals unit instrument by Gilks of Peterborough. I visited a similar instrument by Mander at Broadbridge Heath near Horsham recently and it was very effective.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chapel-Country-House-Church-Pipe-Organ/161613589012 is a Positive Organ Company

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Single-manual-church-country-house-chamber-pipe-organ-Bishop-amp-Son-c-1830-/271788376534 is an 1830 Bishop chamber or house instrument, maintained by Mander.

Best wishes

David P

Hi!

When dropping in on the forum I normally see possibly a count of around 25 guests recorded as looking at the forum but this evening over 50. Might this be an indicator of a better interest in the instrument?

Best wishes

David P

A. Buckingham 1825

Awsworth Methodist Church

The Lane Awsworth Nottingham NG16 2QQ

SK 482 437

NPOR D03567

Single manual chamber organ

Compass low GG (no GG#) to g3 58 notes.

10 speaking stops.

Tracker / Mechanical action throughout

Metal pipe-work cone tuned

Retracting keyboard

Square shanked, notched drawstops with
scrolled font stop heads.

This important historic organ is a very rare
example by A Buckingham of London and is
almost in its original form.

Built in 1825 it was transferred from St.
Alkmund, Derby in 1858, thence to Belper
and Kilburn Methodist churches, moved to
Awsworth in 1895.

This fine sounding instrument was restored by
Peter Bumstead in 1991 and is in good playable
condition. A record of the rebuilt organ is
available.

- Notes Malcolm Starr

Dimensions:
Height: 13ft 9 ins
Width: 7ft
Depth: 3ft 4 ins (keyboard retracted)

Stop List

Open Diapason 8 Lower 12 pipes from Stop Diapason Bass
Stop Diapason Bass 8 12 pipes
Stop Diapason Treble 8 46 pipes
Principal 4 58 pipes
Flute 4 58 pipes
Twelfth 2 2/3 58 pipes
Fifteenth 2 58 pipes
Sesqui Bass III B below middle C down
Cornet Treble III Middle C up
Hautboy 8 Trumpet

Casework is paint grained in oak.

Display pipes were originally gilded
and now painted.

Organ builder's candle found inside the
organ.

Builders label (brass, scrolled) -
A Buckingham
London

The Church building is to be sold by auction on 5th December 2014 and the organ is
immediately available.

Buyer responsible for dismantling, packing and transport.
Enquiries to a church contact please.

Contacts:

Rev Steve Bennett
Tel. 0115 875 7414
Email: sabennett60@tesco.net

Mrs J Breaks Tel. 0115 932 1606
Mrs S Hill Tel. 0115 932 9907

Hi!

I'm wondering what should be the core "must visit" sites that should be on the list for a spare afternoon or evening in Hamburg?

If anyone possibly has possible codes to insert into SatNav it would be wonderful too!

Best wishes

David P

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Church-organ-/121462239247 Terrible condition, but interesting.

Needs to be saved from a bonfire.

Best wishes

David P

Harrison & Harrison c.1880

Blackhill Methodist Church
Durham Rd Consett Durham DH8 0AA
NZ 099 518 UK

NPOR G01362

2 manuals and pedals
21 ss
TP action throughout
Compass          58/30

Dimensions:
Width 24'
Height 16' - 17' (8' to impost)
Depth 7' 6" + console 18" and + pedal board 18" 

The organ was rebuilt/reconstructed by Rushworth & Dreaper in 1922.

The stop action and manuals and pedals are all tubular pneumatic. The console is attached and the pedal board is radiating and concave.

The Open Diapason on the Great is large scale and when the 4' Principal is added, makes a good bright sound which would easily lead a congregation of 100/150.

The organ benefits from Horn, Clarinet and Oboe.

The 8' and 4' Flutes on the Great are really beautiful
as are the Swell strings.

Very few of the notes are off - none completely.

The price asked is £500 (sterling)

The building is to be demolished because of the pointing between the stonework, so an early decision would be appreciated.  The organ should be removed as soon as possible.

The 3-phase supply has been reconnected and the organ is playable.

Buyer make all arrangements for dismantling, packing and transport.

Enquiries to Church Contact please.


Department and Stop list
Pedal
Key action   Stop action   Compass-low C  Compass-high f1  Keys 30
           
1
Acoustic Bass
32

           
2
Bourdon
16

           
3
Violone
16

           
4
Flute
8






Great
Key action   Stop action   Compass-low C  Compass-high a3  Keys 58
           
5
Double Dulciana
16

           
6
Open Diapason
8

           
7
Rohr Flute
8

           
8
Salicional
8

           
9
Principal
4

           
10
Harmonic Flute
4

           
11
Fifteenth
2

           
12
Clarinet
8






Swell
Key action   Stop action   Compass-low C  Compass-high a3  Keys 58 Enclosed
           
13
Bourdon
16

           
14
Violon Diapason
8

           
15
Lieblich Gedeckt
8

           
16
Gamba
8

           
17
Voix Celestes
8

           
18
Gemshorn
4

           
19
Piccolo
2

           
20
Horn
8

           
21
Oboe
8


Console
Console type  Attached   Pedalboard  Radiating Concave 

Couplers
Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal
Swell Octave
Swell Suboctave
Swell Octave to Great
Swell Sub Octave to Great
Great to Pedal

Enquiries to Church Contact please.

 
Church Contact:
Eric Stoddart
Tel. 01207 50237301207 502373

Organ Contact:
John Hart
Tel. 01325 31296001325 312960
Email: johnhart1@btinternet.com

In some Dioceses which perhaps are not unique, finances are in a parlous state.

Recession has taken funding out of giving and the Church is not seen to be universally relevant.

Countryside churches with small congregations are being threatened with possibly closure in their swathes, and God is threatened to be without a footprint outside main centres of popultation. With this comes private insularity and social decay. In rural areas, especially in the south east, congregations are typically over 50 and are drawn more from the female than the male populations, and less able to fund Church, Diocesan and national expenditure.

Large organisations such as the National Trust and educational institutions engage in significant marketing for people to leave them legacies, and the Church by withdrawing from income poor asset rich areas of the countryside by the closure of local churches is further continuing a downward spiral.

An examination of the accounts of a Diocese perhaps not untypical will show a spiral of shortfall with appeals to financially incapacitated congregations for ever yet more unaffordable giving, administrative juggling to save costs and encourage more efficient usage of resources, and an annual expenditure of more than double the shortfall on . . . church insurance.

Neither the Government nor the NHS insure their buildings.

As Christians, faced with a stark problem, perhaps there are areas of action and activity are worthy of review from the point of view of Christian teaching, and in my opinion, insurance is one of those.

Buying insurance is a buying of the hope of security and coming to fruition only if something happens. It is a delegation of responsibility from us, and the community, to someone else. It is an abrogation from our own power in the face of challenge to achieve given in favour of the magicman, the insurer, to do it for us. It is a purchase made in the luxury of the wish to buy comfort. Compared with the day to day issues of running churches, the primary realm of activity, it is in a secondary realm conditional upon events which have not happened.

For this reason I propose that expenditure on insurance should be secondary to the day to day running of the operation of Christianity through our churches and should not be purchased at the expense of closing churches. In the buying of insurance we are exchanging the certain closure of rural churches for only the possibility that without insurance there might be a possibility that a church cannot be replaced in the event of disaster. The exchange of certain closure for merely the uncertainty of a random closure seems to be rather a bad deal - a case of new lamps for old. We might well take the story of Aladdin to heart and keep our churches as in the past we always did, before the invention of insurance.

We might ask also whether insurance is good for our church and community life. With insurance paid, something happens, it gets reported to an agency and the insurers and the assumption is that life continues as usual, merely paid for by the small proportionate congregations through financial premiums.

Supportive congregations don't include the wider community who sees and feels no relevance of the church to them. Seeking support only from the supportive congregations to pay the bill of certainty is short-sighted and not bringing the work of God to work within our community.

There are many people who don't go to church, indeed who see organised religion as divisive and not to be encouraged, bad for community, however, who will support a building that represents an eternal symbol, a landmark, of time and place.

There are many people who will, when asked, join into a community effort, an effort rather than something merely representing funding. This brings community together and with purpose. This is the work of God.

If buildings are listed, then English Heritage are empowered to give grant funding to repair and restoration projects, especially where a building is architecturally or historically important. If a community benefit is involved, then a charity can apply for National Lottery funding, and other charitable organisations can act in a supporting role.

For these reasons then, funds devoted to certainty of peace of administrative minds independent of community spirit and to certainty of church closures on account of expense are better devoted to the primary activity of the church. In the event of disaster, it is the call from neighbours to raise help for the beleaguered in distress, and the building of Guildford Cathedral in modern times in the last century, with great efforts funding the building of a new cathedral brick by brick with great faith, commitment and effort, is a model for 21st century Christianity.

Cathedrals were not built with insurance.

Meanwhile the funds saved from insurance can fund further clergy or increase the salaries of existing clergy to take on the roles of higher responsibility and community support that perhaps they did in the past, or to roll out wider support for projects such as The Cinnamon Network http://www.cinnamonnetwork.co.uk/ which perhaps formalises into a structure areas of work that the Church should be taking on naturally.

Finally we have to address the issue of the reasons why the Church is not perceived to be relevant in our society. The Cinnamon Network is a game-changing initiative, but in being confined to Christianity does not expand the work of God throughout our communities.

A wonderful and inspiring initiative exists at one of the country's major airports, Gatwick Airport, which has a non-denominational chapel in which all who believe in God the Creator in His various forms and colours work and worship together. A striking feature of prayers pyblished by the Chapel http://www.gatwickairportchapel.org/t-prayers.htm is the manner in which all of us can share in so much together. Personally in sharing taxi rides with drivers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Shri Lanka, in discussing faith we tend to find that we share so much in our fundamentals and understanding of the Creator.

It's too easy for the Church either to retreat into an island of its own, or to feel the need to evangelise. But between the two, expanding populations and increasing proportions of those of non-British descent to whom the work of the Church is irrelevant provide the most wonderful of opportunities.

The world faces disorder, disharmony and destruction as a result of people not working together, not understanding the world of God, and ultimately the human race faces extinction as a result of war with each other, and war with our planet.

The heritage of prescriptive rule teachings do little for people who don't see a point in obeying ther rules or for people who consider rules to be there to be rebelled against rather than in any way the reasons for which should be understood. This is the beauty of our heritage of Jesus' teachings, teaching us how to think as Christians rather than what to do as Levites or Pharisees. It is in this that we can show others who follow also the Abrahamic religions how Jesus' wisdom  is wonderful, following the Islamic injunction to fight that which is bad by that which is better.

The significant numbers proportionately of those nominally devoted to Islam in our prisons is evidence of the manner in which the prescriptive rule-based manifestation of faith is not ministering to so much of our population and our communities, and causing some to retreat into further and stricter islands of literal fundamentalism, in common with those of other religions in unease at similar phenonomae.

As Christians we have been seduced and subliminally diverted by linguistics, so easily misconstrued out of context as in the contrast between Philippians 2 and Romans 14
"At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow"
rather than in the voice speaking as God:
"As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

Linguistically softened, it's too easy to misinterpret the second line of the Prayer that Jesus taught us:
"Hallowed be thy Name"

The Name that Jesus was teaching to hold Hallowed was not the name Jesus.

Many people do not understand now the meaning of the word Hallowed and perhaps it's helpful for the purpose of finding our place in society, our community, humanity, our world, to examine what Jesus was teaching us in this most sacred and fundamental sequences of words and concepts.

In speaking with evangelists who worthily come and doorstep in pairs to bring the word of God to communities, my personal experience is that they misconstrue the word "Hallowed" within the context of Phillipians 2, thinking that all the world should greet Jesus and say "Hello" . . .

Jesus' teaching was much more profound, that the _name_ of God should be held sacred.

The manifestation of this holds only to to many to the relevance of people not taking the Lord's name in vain, and misses the point.

Thomas Cahill in his book "The Gifts of the Jews" points to the real meaning. Sacred, being the name of God, feared, a sound that one did not enunciate, was the Name of God. There had always been in many religions an injunction against evoking the name of the Almighty, the All Powerful, the Creator and Destroyer. And thus, when through our mouths we breathe in, and breathe out, in a quiet place, we hear the name of God. AAAAH (W)HAARE . . . . and so we find to describe the sound, the name of God Yahweh. It's a description of the sound. "In the beginning was the word . . . " - Word - sound - intelligence - life. This prayer is about the worship of Life. The God of Life. That which gives life. Perhaps instead of AAAAH AAIRE you might hear AAAH AAAAH. Our lives are so polluted by sound that perhaps few of us have noticed these sounds, that we take for granted, hear, and do all the time.

Perhaps many of us might have enjoyed in the past going to MaJorca . . . and then found the fashion to write it MaLLorca and to say it as Mayyorca, the LL being unprounounced.

And so in our prayer holding sacred the sound of the name of God AAAH AAAH we can find life in the worship of the God of Life, that which brings life to us and our brothers and sisters of A**AH. In this is the secret of the Gatwick Airport chapel, ministering to all, to all of our community of God.

As soon as we say this name, whatever it is, we obliterate the sound of life, the sound, the word of God.

Perhaps in the special words that Jesus taught us, we can for all combine in the ancient aspiration of the joining of earth and heaven in the understanding of the God of Life, now, for all, in this life, and following the instruction of how to do it:

Our Origins, which are in Paradise
Sacred - feared and unspoken be your Name
Your Kingdom of Paradise come, your Will to bring Paradise be done on earth as it is in the Paradise we know in our minds
Give us our daily bread (food for the mind - food for the body, that which body and mind need together)
Forgive us our wrong steps as we forgive the wrong steps of others against us
Lead us not into temptation to do things contrary to the bringing of Paradise on Earth
Deliver us from those who do not understand and situations where God the Creator is not understood.

This is a mantra for all, the aspiration of all humanity given to us by one blessed with the infinite.

It is in this way that in areas of expanding populations, the Church of God can minister far and wide to all who come, sharing in the understanding of the god of Life, that which by which all is created.

The bringing of multi-faith places of worship into our communities can enable the word of God to minister to all. The ministry of the Gatwick Airport Chapel is a shining example. Expanding such work will set the Church in the driving seat of community relevance, of all communities, bring funding from Lottery sources and wider, harness enthusiasms and rekindle the work of God of Life throughout humanity, relevant to all.

For the whole of my adult life the Church has been bemoaning declining support. Jesus said to the invalid of 29 years "Get up and walk!". It is now time for the Church to do so.

With the gift of Jesus in understanding of the God of Life, the breath of life, that which gives life, the Church is empowered to bring life to all communities, and doesn't have to wait for the magicman to do it for it.

With best wishes

David P

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pipe-Tube-Organ/171437329081

One despairs to see an organ described as a Pipe / Tube organ

The level of ignorance to which our education system bereft of music has resulted in is destroying our heritage.

QuoteMake.
One manual pipe organ with mechanical action.
28 Pipe organ.
Decorative grained case and front pipes.
Electric blower.
Short compassed pedal board.

History.
Built by Brewer of Truro 1880`s  for a Chapel in the London Apprentice area of St Austell.
Rebuilt and enlarged by Trudgian of St Dennis circa 1905.
Moved to St Merryn Methodist Church in 1972, regularly tuned by Lance Foy Truro until 2004.

Stop names.

Left to Right:
Boardon 16ft
Great to Pedals
Octave Coupler
Lieblich Gedact 8ft
Dulciana 8ft
Open Dinpasen 8ft
Principal 4ft

Shrinking the footprint is a major initiative launched by the Church of England.

"The present challenges of environment and economy, of human development and global poverty, can only be faced with extraordinary Christ-liberated courage."
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby

https://www.churchofengland.org/about-us/our-buildings/shrinking-the-footprint.aspx
- - - - - - - - - - - -
The shrinking our footprint initiative is a most important thing for the Church to have done. It is of particular interest as the human race faces extinction as a result of (a) war with each other - and in this the teaching of Jesus is a focus upon the solution, the breath of life, and (b) war with our planet - and understanding the work of the Process of Creation by which all is created, is the breath of life of our planet, again putting the church central to the solution. The Church truly is relevant to the survival of mankind on earth.

I am currently searching for people (perhaps a young person yet without a job who would be interested) with physics, engineering and or electronics expertise or even merely workshop experience, to carry out certain experiments. These are documented on http://free-energy-info.co.uk/FEindex.html and particularly
(a) Thanes' transformer, capable of wholly transforming our electrical systems and understanding of electromagnetism
(b) Resonant electrolysis of water, leading to water powered engines. I have met two people who told me that they run their car on water, no fuel, and another who studied the phenonomen at university finding that it works, but who was not allowed to take it further as being against the interests of the funding of the university.

The only power powerful enough to bypass the oil companies, is the body of people who worship life, that which gives life, the breath of life, the process by which all is created, the Creator.

Conventionally, I have been installing significant solar power both conventional grid power, and off grid battery banks, trying every type of technology I can get my hands on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd862vDvDEw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAPmfjP6fQ in relation to the battery bank, and installing solar panels on buildings where otherwise they would be unacceptable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_vKQ9XInMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSUCf3AJ54 on a Grade 1 listed building.

I would be happy to host a tour of this work if anyone's interested. (In addition the house is open to the public on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons 2pm till end of September.)

Best wishes

David P

http://www.czechtourism.com/e/international-organ-festival-olomouc/



5. 9. 2014 - 19. 9. 2014
At the Organ Festival in Olomouc you can hear one of the largest organs in the Czech Republic.

A permanent place among the music festivals in Olomouc is occupied by the autumn organ festival, which is held annually in September at the Church of St. Moritz. The foundation and success of this festival is credited to Professor Antonín Schindler, who until 2010 was the president and planner of the festival while likewise being in organist at the Church of St. Moritz. Here he had access to a unique, but very dilapidated instrument made by Michael Engler in 1745. At the initiative of Professor Schindler, the organ was repaired and enlarged. It was the refurbishment of this unique instrument that led to the founding of the Organ Festival, where now a number of renowned artists from around the world perform.

Location
Kostel Svatého Mořice
8. května
779 00 Olomouc
Organiser
Moravská filharmonie Olomouc
Horní náměstí 23
772 00 Olomouc


www.mfo.cz

Hi!

It was great actually to find a whole organ recital on Radio 3 last night

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f8qn5

Jordi Cabre Organ Recital
AVAILABILITY:7 DAYS LEFT TO LISTEN
Duration: 6 hours
First broadcast: Thursday 28 August 2014
Jonathan Swain presents an organ recital given by Jordi Cabré, in the Basílica de Santa Maria de Mataró, Barcelona.

12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Prelude and fugue in G minor for organ
Jordi Cabré (organ)

12:39 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Choral no. 1 in E major M.38 for organ
Jordi Cabré (organ)

12:56 AM
Durufle, Maurice [1902-1986]
Scherzo Op.2 for organ
Jordi Cabré (organ)

1:03 AM
Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Praludium from 12 Pieces Op. 80 for organ
Jordi Cabré (organ)

1:10 AM
Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Wie schon leucht't uns der Morgenstern, from 2 Chorale fantasies Op.40
Jordi Cabré (organ)

1:33 AM
Speth, Johannes [1664-c.1720]
Toccata quarta in E minor ('Viertes musicalisches Blumen-Feld')
Jordi Cabré (organ)

1:38 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus: Locus iste; Christus Factus est
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)

1:46 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.78) "Organ Symphony"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor), Kaare Nordstoga (organ)

2:22 AM
Alain, Jehan [1911-1940]
Le Jardin suspendu for organ
Tomás Thon (organ)

With luck it will be repeated at some stage. A very enjoyable programme

Best wishes

David P

I'm on the Ladach mailing list and this one came through. With a Tierce on II it will be lovely in a mild unequal temperament with purer thirds. Possibly Valotti or Kellner or a modified meantone as used on the Izard and Grinda organs in the south of France

Oberlinger 16/II+P

Year of construction: 1973
number of manuals: 2
manuals: C-g'''
pedal: ja (C-f')
system: mechanisch
stop action mechanism: mechanisch
Register: 16
Principle-base: 2
height: 258 cm
width: 245 cm
depth: 180 cm
disposition:
Man. I:
Gedackt 8'
Gemshorn 4'
Blockflöte 2'
Quinte 1 1/3'
Oktävlein 1'
Trichter-Regal 8'

Man. II:
Rohrflöte 8'
Kleingedackt 4'
Nasat 2 2/3'
Prinzipal 2'
Terz 1 3/5'
Cymbel 2f.

Pedal:
Sordun 16'
Pommer 4'
Octav 2'
Schalmei 4'
couplers:
II/I, I/P, II/P
remarks:
The organ is house organ and voiced very soft.
It has been always maintained and is in a good condition.
The last cleaning was some years ago.
The blower is outside in a room under the organ.

price: negotiable 25.000 € (private sale/no VAT applied)

For further information please refer to our webpage:
http://www.pipeorgans.eu/en/newsmail/3118695378

Oh for a spare 25k . . .

Best wishes

David P