Tea dances are held at Bilston town hall every thursday. Dancing to the mighty compton organ and the yamaha organs from 13:15 - 16:00 every thursday, £2 admission.
Hi!
Wonderful new to hear of all these concerts and I hope in due course that this thread will be quite a resource. Thanks so much for posting.
If you're playing at all, it would be wonderful to hear on these posts on why you like the instruments you're playing and why you like the programme being performed. I'm really hoping that overall this forum will be a real opportunity to make everything about the organ a good deal more interesting than the often sterile announcements one finds elsewhere. No criticism - merely just inspiration, I hope!
I was intrigued by Percy Vickery's demonstration of the 2/7 Christie at Waltham Cross the way in which the instrument synthesised other sounds from the combination of its limited numbers of ranks. Hearing about such things is rather interesting, perhaps on the registration section, and especially to those of us more familiar with classical pipe organs. In saying this one mustn't forget the long heritage of organ sound synthesis - there was a certain pope who declared reed stops the work of the devil, and this was the origin of the "Cornet" aliquot stop on classical instruments.
Of course this isn't relevant specifically to concerts but when players come across idiosyncracies of instruments they're playing, telling prospective audiences about such things can be really interesting, making the instrument and its music more meaningful and possibly attracting more audience.
Best wishes
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Personally i dont do concerts, i play for my own personal enjoyment.
But when i do play these instruments, i play them because i find them more enjoyable, i find them so much more flexible as well. You can use them for ballroom dancing, use can use them along with an orchestra (which some blend in with very well!), to accompany silent films, as a solo instrument, for accompinamental purposes( such as a singer) and on some instruments you can get away with classical organ works too, and your church hymns (comptons are particularly good at this i find).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWClq1Pr7hM as a solo instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_P0ydoKXyA&feature=related For dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg7ZvBFfZ8s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQdN1OoPjo both links-as silent film accompinament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s_vrQ7ZErE - as a "classical" instrument