POV

I have watched many of these 'Point of View' videos this year. It is the one Christmas pleasure I allow myself. It is great to see young people playing.

Christmas Organ Music

Organists are traditionally very busy at Christmas but, oddly, I do not have a very large Christmas repertoire. That said, I have recently bought a couple of Christmas books and single items from online retailers. One composer I am following is Phil Lehenbauer and, as I write, I am listening to the piece below.

Carol Service

From a note in the tuner's book, it turns out that the 4 foot flute stop is broken at the slider end and is a difficult repair which needs pipes to be removed. I managed to find a good deal of variety in my registrations because the swell has a 16' stop which, when combined with 8' and/or 4' stops and played up an octave, gave a very satisfactory selection of sounds which I shall use more.

The choir sang their carol but, as I suspected, it ought to have been transposed down a tone. Nobody ever listens to me.

Luceat

Last year I was sent this CD and I played it again a couple of days ago whilst I was tidying up. Superb singing and a lovely collection of pieces. Do visit the Luceat site and buy it.

St Typo and All Angels

It is the season of Carol Services. Many places use the Bethlehem Carol Sheet but some use hymn books. Woe betide any church which tries to combine the two as they will probably end up with chaos or at least a mention on the Church Service Sheet Typo Group.