But....but...but...God of the Sparrow, God of the Whale is my favorite hymn ever!! (Now where's that old queasy emoticon when you could really use it?) I, like you found the Chalice Hymnal a bit...

It sounds to me like you might have The Hymnal 1982, which is the standard hymnal of The Episcopal Church.

John, I went to college at Hiram College, which is a denominational school for the...

Although it isn't exactly meant for this sort of thing, and isn't really comprehensive, you might try looking through the OHS database (database.organsociety.org).

Can I join your Troglodyte Society? I'm a baritone, so if we get another tenor, we could have a TTBB quartet! I think that slowly the pendulum is shifting away from serving up so much drek in...

So, in the six years since I started this thread (was it really six years ago) I have changed my views, and become a bit crankier, but these days I consider myself an Anglican with some Catholic...

For one thing there is liturgical appropriateness, secondly some secular music is appropriate for a sacred occasion, but much of it isn't. We may be fighting a battle, but it is a battle worth...

I have been pretty fortunate over the few years I've been attempting to play organ to have been given access to a number of very nice and well maintained instruments. In high school, I had permission...

Like you, doucaine, I wear Capezios for my organ shoes (in my case, it's the 445s). Capezios were recommended to me by a very well respected and prominent organist in Cleveland. I recall though that...

I know that I could do to have greater familiarity with the output of Harrison & Harrison, but I'm surprised that there has been no mention of King's Cambridge.

Why are you looking to buy used organ shoes? In general, organists buy one pair of organ shoes and wear them until they are good and dead (and sometimes beyond dead). Organ shoes can be had on order...

I kept suggesting that Rowan Williams ought to have been a candidate. Oh sure, there is the minor issue of the fact that he's not Catholic, but as Archbishop of Canterbury, he practically already did...

Here is an interesting article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about corrosion in pipes. http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/03/oberlin_college_researcher_hel.html

I would suggest you find your nearest organ built by M.P. Moller organ, and have a look at the blower - if you can - since Moller almost universally outfitted their instruments with blowers by...

I know that famed early 20th century concert organist Edwin H. Lemare preferred to do his registration by hand, even when the consoles were equipped with reliable combination actions and copious...

This sounds like something that NYCFarmboy might have some experience with...the App that is, because I know he has OAS, what with the Robo-Reuter (Acme 1), the Appleton, the Compton, the Moller...

Hey...my first new thread in a while! Anyhoo...

I know that there are three basics ways of outfitting flue pipes for tuning - cone, slide and scroll- with slide tuning being the most prevalent...

I liked it, a little schmaltzy, and the ending was a bit much for me, but I liked it. A couple of small nitpicky points on her performance (this is coming from me as a singer), I wish she had rolled...

I don't play organ much nor do I play organ very well (I'm really a string player and a singer), but I know that over the years, I have seen a number of posts about burnt out bulbs in lighted knobs...

You could buy the accompaniment edition of the Hymnal 1982 from Cokesbury or Amazon. Right now (10:35 UTC-5, July 25 2012) the accompaniment edition is selling for $60.00 on Amazon. This might seem...

If you really want to get away with the absolute barest minimum, you could get away with just three ranks, a string, a reed and a flute. A reed is a nice thing to have, but it's not absolutely...

Realizing that this thread is by now months old, I agree with Westminster and Rick, my first choice to rebuild the organ would be Holtkamp.
I would say that in my passing familiarity with the...

I think that with further reflection, the worst "organ" I played was either the Rogers/Ruffatti which was just plain unbearably loud in the loft, or the Wicks hybrid where I swear the digital voices...

I say it is TWS's loss, because try as they might, the Monster & Obscenity they installed is still a toaster, a very fancy toaster, but a toaster none the less, and it sounds like it. I will be glad...

I may have already said this on this thread (it's a long thread, I don't feel like reading the whole thing and it has been quite some time since I was last on this forum) but I would say that among...

Well, if you want a stop that is totally useless for anything musically, and useful only for making someone look like a dummy, there is the old Fuchschwanz/Noli Me Tangere (ie a "fox tail" connected...