Funny what you find "just round the corner"!

[keef]

Found out the new owner of a Six that changed hands recently lived but a short distance from me. Imagine my surprise/delight at his tat collection which I was shown when I visited.

 

 

 

[ashmicro]

CLASS!

 

They all look in great shape. That man is a WINNAR.

[retrogeezer]

oh, my neighbour had a Marina that colour when I was a lad but in was the pov spec with brown vinyl. We looked really posh in our BRG one with velour trim and head restraints.

[Station]

Both look absolutely immaculate, Maxi needs a car cover! What a star!

[michiel]

Hnng, beauties!

[steve austin]

MM MM! Retro 70's heaven, wonder if they still have that smell?

[theorganist]

Hey thats my old Maxi, glad it is still in one piece!

 

The guy who bought it off me (after begging me not to put it on e-bay) then sold it on e-bay for quite a bit more a few weeks later!

[dollywobbler]

That's a bit scary. I'm just listening to Widor, click on to Autoshite - last post by The Organist!

[theorganist]

'm just listening to Widor, click on to Autoshite - last post by The Organist!

 

Widor is class but a bit tricky for me at the moment!

 

What piece are you listening to?

[dollywobbler]

Toccata from 5th symphony. I'm in the mood for pipes. (sorry for the OT, just seemed funny!)

[theorganist]

That is a dream collection of cars. Its funny, that Maxi spent 32 years of its life living in Bristol and in the last year it has lived in Stourbridge, Halifax and now Dartford!

 

Seeing it now I wished I hadn't sold it (always new I would regret it). Glad it looks like it is being looked after by a enthusiast though.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

That's a bit scary. I'm just listening to Widor, click on to Autoshite - last post by The Organist!

 

God, TWO more folks from the organ world?

 

I'm not an organist myself, but my mum is:

 

http://www.organum.org.uk

 

Yes, I know, the website's shite, but she definitely isn't. Seven of her pupils as past, present or (in one case) near future OxBridge organ scholars...

[keef]

The Maxi is back up for sale! :-

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1977-LEYLAND-CARS ... 4aa5593100

[theorganist]

I'm not an organist myself, but my mum is:

 

Thats a very impressive CV she has. If I achieve half of what she has done I will be over the moon.

 

Hoping to do my RCO at some point (in the next five years if I am lucky!!).

[Guest EccentricRichard]

I'm not an organist myself, but my mum is:

 

Thats a very impressive CV she has. If I achieve half of what she has done I will be over the moon.

 

Hoping to do my RCO at some point (in the next five years if I am lucky!!).

 

Thanks! By "RCO", do you mean the ARCO or the FRCO?

 

Oh, and she's coming to the end of a part-time PhD in composition by portfolio (plus a big disseration on Messiaen - "Mystic or Evangelist? The Later Organ Works of Olivier Messiaen", just discounting La Nativité and Livre d'Orgue).

 

Where do you play, out of interest?

 

Strike that, found it already!

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N03331

[theorganist]

By "RCO", do you mean the ARCO or the FRCO?

 

Sorry, meant ARCO!

 

Where do you play, out of interest?

 

I sing in the choir at St. Mary, Oldswinford, where I am also one of the assistant organists.

 

http://www.stmaryschurcholdswinford.org.uk/

 

I also do some freelancing around the area, mainly Brierley Hill (St. Michael), Chaddesley Corbett, and some of the parishes out in the sticks between Bewdley and Ludlow.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

By "RCO", do you mean the ARCO or the FRCO?

 

Sorry, meant ARCO!

 

Where do you play, out of interest?

 

I sing in the choir at St. Mary, Oldswinford, where I am also one of the assistant organists.

 

http://www.stmaryschurcholdswinford.org.uk/

 

I also do some freelancing around the area, mainly Brierley Hill (St. Michael), Chaddesley Corbett, and some of the parishes out in the sticks between Bewdley and Ludlow.

 

Ah! So why do you have a piccy of the organ of St Augustine's, Holly Hall, Dudley as your avatar?

[chaseracer]

By "RCO", do you mean the ARCO or the FRCO?

 

Sorry, meant ARCO!

 

Where do you play, out of interest?

 

I sing in the choir at St. Mary, Oldswinford, where I am also one of the assistant organists.

 

http://www.stmaryschurcholdswinford.org.uk/

 

I also do some freelancing around the area, mainly Brierley Hill (St. Michael), Chaddesley Corbett, and some of the parishes out in the sticks between Bewdley and Ludlow.

 

Ah! So why do you have a piccy of the organ of St Augustine's, Holly Hall, Dudley as your avatar?

 

"Exhausts and existentialism"?

 

We have OHVs and organs, too!

 

[theorganist]

Ah! So why do you have a piccy of the organ of St Augustine's, Holly Hall, Dudley as your avatar?

 

Well spotted . I have played there a few times, haven't for the last year due to various reasons. I wanted to put a picture of an organ that I had played and I have not got a picture of Oldswinford which was small enough to be used as an avatar. That picture of St. Augustines is from the National Pipe Organ Register.

 

Where are you based?

[theorganist]

"Exhausts and existentialism"?

 

We have OHVs and organs, too!

 

[trigger]

ORGANSHITE

Let us tickle your ivory's

[theorganist]

ORGANSHITE

Let us tickle your ivory's

 

I like it .

[Guest EccentricRichard]

"Exhausts and existentialism"?

We have OHVs and organs, too!

 

Huh?!

[Guest EccentricRichard]

ORGANSHITE

Let us tickle your ivory's

 

Haha!

 

P. S. Don't ever use the grocer's apostrophe like that again. I know where you live, etc...

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Ah! So why do you have a piccy of the organ of St Augustine's, Holly Hall, Dudley as your avatar?

 

Well spotted . I have played there a few times, haven't for the last year due to various reasons. I wanted to put a picture of an organ that I had played and I have not got a picture of Oldswinford which was small enough to be used as an avatar. That picture of St. Augustines is from the National Pipe Organ Register.

 

Where are you based?

 

Leatherhead, Surrey. Some of Mum's previous 'home' organs (she is presently without a church job) are these:

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D08313 (2008-2009) - lovely, gutsy, sweet-toned little Henry Jones, made more versatile with a little upperwork in the 60s. On a west end gallery in a large barn of a church (would have been even bigger if completed), a church with a large, healthy congregation who sing with gusto! There were plans to build the planned-for organ chamber on the South side of the chancel (it was going to be a large, roomy chamber) and install a secondhand 3m instrument there, but, alas, the priest got cold feet over his agenda of traditionalisation (despite having the backing of the vast majority of the congregation) and reversed all his policies... we smell the influence of the local bishop, who has no business being a priest, and is a thoroughly nasty culture-phobic bully.

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D08165 (2002-2006) - absolutely fabulous 1889 Willis organ, just Truro Cathedral minus the 32ft, the Solo, and any kind of acoustic =(

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N13998 (1996-2001) - hopeless piece of shite, thanks to a 50s Walker rebuild and a 70s Wood Wordsworth rebuild... shoved away in a cramped chamber way up in a transept, very covered, no nice sounds at all.

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N00921 (1994-1996) - wonderful Hill organ in a fine church (actually visible from the RC church across the town with the Henry Jones!). Very heavy action when on full organ. Alas, the church has gone very happy-clappy, and uses the organ but little... for my mum's first two months there, she actually never heard any reference to God, or Christ, or Jesus, just "Jim". "Jim" this, "Jim" that, "Jim" the next thing. "The Jim Campaign". Eventually, she plucked up the courage to ask why not, and who "Jim" was, and received the icy reply "Jim is Jesus In Me". Eventually, Mum was forced out amidst the fall-out as the over-large guitar-and-drums band fell out with itself and split into two rival factions...

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N08960 - famous 1975 Frobenius in a tragically over-restored (thanks to the Victorians) small medieval church, with large parts predating the Norman Conquest. Fabulous organ - spoilt by a terrible buzzy Regal as its only manual reed (and the bugger would NEVER stay in tune for as much as half a day). Thankfully, it has now been remade as a much nicer, more stable Cromorne...

 

Those who say there are more good organs up North ought to come down here, we've got loads of crackers. I could go on about two of the Guildford churches, and the big Hill at Godalming, and the big Hunters in Surbiton and Woking, the Harrison at Woodham, near Woking, the Mutin Cavaillé-Coll at Farnborough, and the newly-reconstructed 1766 Parker just round the corner from us... sorry, this is meant to be a car forum, I know! Come and join us at http://www.organmatters.co.uk/ instead...

[theorganist]

sorry, this is meant to be a car forum, I know! Come and join us at http://www.organmatters.co.uk/ instead...

 

True, sorry this has been a bit of a thread hi-jack!

 

Will take a look at organ matters.

[Richard]

It's all going a bit Raymanboy.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

It's all going a bit Raymanboy.

 

Huh?

[theorganist]

Richard wrote:It's all going a bit Raymanboy.

 

Huh?

 

Raymondboy is a bit of a weirdo who sells rather over priced and over hyped cars on e-bay.

 

I'm happy to admit to being a bit weird lol, otherwise I probably wouldn't be driving around in a tatty LHD Renault 14 .

[Richard]

He sells pianos too, it was the old cars/keyboards connection.