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WELCOMES YOU TO
THE N. I. WEBSITE
LAST SITE UPDATE 31 August
2006 |
We have just about finished St Peter's
(the largest organ in Ireland at 4m/138s) and it is absolutely amazing.
I have to admit that I had private reservations about the mixing of digital
and pipes showing the digital ranks as being noticeably "electronic", but
the majority of it is indistinguishable from the "real thing", and it takes a
really well trained ear to spot the differences. We would have to say that
it is of course the real thing anyway...
The first hybrid tracker/digital organ in Ireland (and probably
GB) has just been finished in Tullow, Co. Carlow. Phoenix NI collaborated
very succesfully with Stephen Adams and Aiden Scanlon (whom many regard as one
of the top pipe voicers in Ireland) and we have more projects in the
pipeline... The dedication is on September 10 at
5pm.
... and the two jobs currently in the workshop are also nearing
completion:
- a three manual practice organ for Leo Tomita (Organ
Scholar at Corpus Christi College Cambs) with fifty-two lighted tabs on
angled jambs both sides of the keys, and
- a basically fully rebuilt
and re-polished console fitted out with a new coupling and transmission
system incorporating a few digital stops (including both a 32' reed and a
Sub Bourdon) for Holy Trinity Banbridge.
We have just been awarded the contract to build a new organ for
The Parish Church of St. Patrick, Drumbeg, Upper Malone, Belfast. This will
be a three manual instrument, slightly smaller than
Bloomfield , but because the previous
organ's pipes were placed on the West Gallery, the main bulk of our instrument
will also reside there. There will be additional small sections located at
the East End, mainly for accompaniment of the Choir.
We have decided to make our entire recorded catalogue available
online (mostly as 160k mp3 files), because these days most people have
access to broadband internet connections, and download time is not as big
an issue as it was a few years ago. It is also a fact of life that people tend
to want things "now" rather than wait for "tomorrow", and this will help to
placate persons of that persuasion (and my family would tell you that I
definitely belong to that category). You can now browse our entire
catalogue on the Audio Page
Postal address:
Unit 1, Building 9, Central Park, Mallusk, Co.
Antrim, BT36 4FS
Telephone numbers:
028 9084 1001 from anywhere within the UK 048
9084 1001 from Republic of Ireland
07714 023 964 is the
mobile.
You can
browse at random through this site simply by clicking on the stops to the left.
For a guided tour of everything, the "pipes in the chip" logo will take you
to all the pages in sequence.
If you wish to print the contents
of this site, we have also prepared an Adobe Acrobat document which,
although not identical in format, nevertheless has all the technical
information on 7 A4 pages ready to print.
 Please note that this document has no information on
the featured organs at the moment.
©SGH / Phoenix
Organs NI Aug 2006 |