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Progress in Christchurch and a competition

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The great news

Christchurch Town Hall repairs inch forward, hour by hour, day by day. The great news is that Rieger Orgelbau is scheduled to visit Christchurch in October this year to repair the organ after earthquake damage (which was fortunately minimal). Every pipe will be removed, checked, cleaned, voiced, and replaced. Only a small number of pipes need replacing.
Martin Setchell (organ curator) reports that while the repairs are being carried out, the opportunity is also being taken to make some minor alterations and improvements to the console layout, taking account of the twelve new ranks of pipes installed in 2010, but never yet heard by the public. Rieger will also be updating the combination system to the current state of the art model.
"All in all, it should feel like a second inauguration of what was always a fine instrument, now more significant than ever for our city given the heavy toll on many church pipe organs taken by the earthquakes," says Martin.

Want to know more about how things are going at Christchurch Town Hall?
What's happened to Boaters? Or the James Hay theatre? Is the Limes Room still there? Of course you do. The town hall management company, vBase is issuing quarterly updates on the progress leading up to the reopening in 2019. You can read the first update here and subscribe to further updates from the same page. Be informed and then you will know when to start booking your tickets!

Don't forget the auditorium has its very own webcam which is refreshed every 15 or so minutes during the working day so you can see the tiniest bit of development for yourself. (The content is delayed by 24 hours, but other than that it is up-to-the-minute) The link is available from the organ's website at www.nzorgan.com

Sideways kiwis and all that
Reviews of "Organs and Organists: Their Inside Stories" have been posted on the website to convince people to buy the book by the crateload, if only to help weigh down houses during cyclones. Some reviews are funny in their own right; there was that unique reference to a sideways kiwi, for example. Read some of the reviews here (and, of course, buy your house-stabilising copy there as well)

ABOVE: some of the products carrying the latest design
"De-cipher this" from our Zazzle Organ Gifts online shop. Perfect gifts for organists!

And now: time for the competition!

COMPETITION! Can you tell what tile does not belong here?
If so, you could be in the draw to win a copy of the ever-popular "Organ-isms: Anecdotes from the World of the King of Instruments". I had a photo of the John Loosemore organ in Exeter Cathedral as a jigsaw puzzle. Unfortunately one of the kitties chewed a piece to tiny bits and I had to substitute a tile from Salisbury Cathedral organ to make up the 16 random pieces.

Can you tell which tile is from Salisbury and not from Exeter? (You don't have to be an organist - or even musical to get this right!) Say which one it is, complete the short the form at the bottom of the competition page and you go in the draw to win. Anyone, anywhere, can enter, and entries will close on April 10th. So you don't have long. Enter here.

From the Swellbox

A few minor snipplets, only peripherally to do with organs:

Vivaldi as he was never played before - well, at least not so musically. The humble recorder, Yamaha keyboard and all done squatting on the floor. An ear-opener.
For those who can't get enough organ music, a round-the-clock website to note is Organroxx . Based in Belgium, Organroxx delivers streaming music free to fans anywhere in the world. Don't forget too the omnipresent Pipedreams and Organlive. No excuses for missing out on organ music.
Partifi is something you never thought you needed. And you still might not need it. But if you want to create parts from music scores using pdf files, give this a go.
I'd love to try introducing this guy into a parish choir, just to see what might happen. Tom Thum and his incredible beatbox voice at TexXSydney . He must be hell to live with.
Organs can last for centuries - but how about millennia? If they're water organs, they obviously can. An ancient Greek water-organ from the 1st century BC has been restored and will once again play in the Acropolis Museum this summer. Water music, presumably.
Oh here we go: "Turning" another dreaded time-wasting addictive game for the feeble minded. I love this sort of android game which is easy to learn but will take hours and hours and hours (etc etc etc) to master. Sorry IOS-ers. Strictly Android. Try Turning now (free)

Kate: Hey Bobby, Ma wants to know who chewed her jigsaw.
Bobby: urghmufrlfe? owmpphshmsmiphly ... hachahchackahchch chchcack hackhack hack
Kate: I'll just tell her you've got a cold. She'll never know.
Bobby: Barf.

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Thanks girls. At least it gave me a competition idea. Don't forget to enter by April 10th!
Jenny

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