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e-mail us your postal address and we will send you out the CD from which most of these soundbites were taken. |
Most browsers now have the wherewithal to play backmp3 files, but if yours does not then you can go direct to www.nullsoft.com for the latest (or a MAC) version of WinAmp. This is a self-extracting zip, and just requires you to double-click on the file once you have downloaded it (save it to disk). The player will install itself on your system and you will then be able to play back the audio files in all their splendour. If possible, connect your PC up to some large speakers - this gives the best results. There is a lot of bottom end in all these clips, and they will play back at an unbelievable level of fidelity if your reproduction chain is up to it. Most of the tracks are 160 kbps mp3s, although the soundbites and Grosvenor tracks are at a lower rate because bandwidth and download time used to be issues...
Click on this icon at the left of the description to download the clip.
- - - - THE PHOENIX ORGAN IN MONEYGLASS - SOUNDBITES - - - -
These were all recorded on the 4 manual PHOENIX ORGAN which was temporarily installed in The Church of Our Lady Moneyglass to record a Christmas CD for the Grosvenor Chorale.
- - - - TRACKS FROM THE GROSVENOR CHORALE CHRISTMAS CD - - - -
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- - - - THE PHOENIX ORGAN IN MONEYGLASS COMPLETE - - - -
When we pressed this CD, the track numbers advanced at significant noted registration changes.
Mpegs will not seque together like this, so we have "glued" the tracks back together to maitain the musical integrity.
If you also download the booklet in whatever form, the description of each piece will refer to the track numbers, and thus a little imagination may need to be used.
Moneyglass CD booklet in A4 format. Moneyglass CD booklet in A5 format. Moneyglass CD booklet for DVD case insert. Because of the wonderful, careful manner in which post is treated these days, the CD was never shipped in a jewel case.
Because of this, we never laid an insert out in that format (121x121mm), so we haven't one for you to download.
Hovever, if you are really determined, then here is a zip of the text in .doc format for you to design your own!
- - - - THE PHOENIX ORGAN IN St. MARK'S DUNDELA - - - -
This is normally a Compton 12 rank pipe organ which uses a Phoenix coupling, capture and transmission system. However, the soundboards were removed
for renovation and during this period the organ was fitted out with soundcards so that the music programme could continue without interruption
using a digital substitute.
We took the opportunity to record it at the beginning of June 2005, just before final recommissioning of the Compton.The first group of files were recorded by a real person (me) in real time, mistakes and all!
The next pieces I played in real time, and the organ's MIDI out was fed to a PC (running Cubase sequencer software).
We then corrected the wrong notes (of which there were many!) and then recorded the organ being played by this new MIDI file.
These pieces are from MIDI files which I created from scratch, using just the score, an electric piano and a mouse.
And these pieces are from MIDI files which I found on the internet. Some work better than others,
but it demonstrates what can be done in two minutes - set the right channels, delete all program changes, set stops manually and press GO!
**The Widor is possibly the most bizarre - we scanned in the score and a friend used a piece of software called Vivaldi,
which turned the printed music, including the four stave section, straight into a midi file.
Now it wasn't perfect, and was highly confused by some of the clef changes, but once these notes were transposed, all was correct.
I wouldn't say it was the most musical interpretation I have ever heard, but then again, it only took about fifteen minutes!
Compare that to the Duruflé files above, which took over a fortnight each (still a hundred times quicker than actually learning them!)
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