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Choir Pedal BAO NEWS Lieblich Gedact 8 Open Diapason 16 Wood Dulciana 8 Sub Bass 16 A MAY 2019 Flute 4 Bass Flute 8 A Bournemouth & District Association of Organists Clarinet 8 Registered Charity No. 1098369 Swell to Pedal www.iao.org.uk/bournemouth [email protected] Great Swell to Great Open Diapason I 8 Swell to Choir From the Editor THIS EDITION Open Diapason II 8 Swell Octave Welcome to the May edition of BAO News , in which Editor’s letter ... 1 Hohl Flute 8 Swell Suboctave we focus mainly on events for the year - those that Branksome ... ... 1 Principal 4 Choir to Pedal have been and those that are yet to come! Please Harmonic Flute 4 Great to Pedal check with your diaries for the forthcoming events - it Dorchester ... ... 2 Fifteenth 2 Choir to Great Suboctave would be wonderful for as many members and friends Devon ... ... ... 3 as possible to join us at some time during the year. Trumpet 8 Events & Recitals 5 A very warm welcome to Sarah Seymour who has Organ Spotlight ... 7 Swell recently joined the association! Bourdon 16 Contact details ... 8 Timothy Rice Geigen Principal 8 Treasure Hunt - Rohr Flöte 8 separate pull-out Echo Gamba 8 Voix Celeste 8 TC ORGAN CRAWL IN MARCH Gemshorn 4 A Saturday afternoon in March saw a small number of BAO members make Mixture III their way towards Poole to sample the Horn 8 organs at St. Aldhelm’s, Branksome, Oboe 8 followed by All Saints at Branksome Park. Tremulant At St. Aldhelm’s, 10 of us enjoyed the Gray & Davison / Osmond organ, rebuilt by Lance Foy in 1996. Over its two manuals and pedal departments there is a BOURNEMOUTH & DISTRICT ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS comprehensive stop list which, on its own, Registered Charity No. 1098369 would give plenty of scope for musical colour; but the addition of many playing PRESIDENT Vacant aids (including “Great Reeds on Swell”, and a 64-channel setter VICE PRESIDENTS Jennifer Bate OBE; Geoffrey Morgan system) makes for an instrument immensely suitable for church accompaniment and recital use. HON. SECRETARY Margaret Clarke, 25 Kensington Park, Milford on Sea, Lymington. SO41 0WD Tel. 01590 642689 Email: [email protected] Over at Branksome Park (and once a key-holder had been tracked HON. TREASURER Brenda Price, 6 Plassey Crescent, Bournemouth BH10 5JS down!), we listened to and played another of Lance Foy’s rebuilds, Tel. 01202 581295 Email: [email protected] that of the 1938 Willis. The specification wasn’t dissimilar to that of TRUSTEES Alan Aldis, Julian Davies, Paul Fearnley, Clifford Frisby, Branksome but was contained in a smaller organ loft and indeed a Peter Lattimer, Sue Rawlinson, Timothy Rice, Charles Thomas. smaller building. NEWSLETTER Ed. Timothy Rice, Tel. 01425 615147 Email: [email protected] Many grateful thanks to Paul Fearnley and Philip Sandom for helping www.iao.org.uk/bournemouth Email: [email protected] with the arranging of this event. TJR Page 8 May 2019 BAO News BAO News May 2019 Page 1 DIVERSITY IN DORCHESTER ORGAN ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, BOSCOMBE Our Organ Crawl to Dorchester on the 9th April began at St. Peter’s in the t Hill, 1908 potLigh High Street. We were welcomed, informed and entertained by Director of S Music, David Fawcett. He talked us through the instrument’s original Henry Jones specification of 1892, Nicholson’s rebuild of 1970, followed by some The lovely little organ in St. “anonymous” and significant changes which had not only deprived the Great of Andrew’s Church, Florence a 4’ Flute but also meant that any chance of a tactful crescendo through the Road, Boscombe, is a 1908 Great diapason chorus was simply not going to happen! Any plans to return the William Hill. instrument to the Henry Jones / Nicholson specification are to be encouraged It was built in the new church of and will turn a good organ into a fine instrument! A rare point to note about St. Andrew’s and, except for a this instrument were the clean and a small amount of re- “Haskelled” pipes forming the leathering, stands now as it did in bottom octave of the Pedal 1908, completely original. Open Diapason 16’. Haskelling is a method of pipe There are some nice reeds - Oboe 8' and Horn 8' on the Swell, a Great construction, used where Trumpet and the most beautiful Clarinet on the Choir. limited space does not allow It is mechanical action throughout, and stands in its beautiful case behind some for full-length pipes to be arches - it really does speak out in to the church. sited; a shorter tube is housed within another short tube, To me, I feel it would be lovely to have a Pedal reed and for the Great Trumpet saving space but still giving the to be available on the choir organ. required pitch, albeit of a Inner tubes just visible at the top of the The Swell Mixture is of good slightly more string-like tone. Haskelled Open Diapason pipes quality and I use it sparingly We adjourned for lunch before heading to St. George’s, Fordington, where we during a service, perhaps for were met by organist Evelyn Kingman. Justifiably, Evelyn has her own the Communion Gloria “ORGANIST” parking space outside - and why not, after 54 years in the job, a (Thorne) and the last hymn. youthful nonagenarian and still playing very well! She gave us a wonderful insight The Diocesan Organ into the organ’s history, Advisor recently came to complete with her photo see it and called it an album recording all that absolute gem. had been undertaken to It is a hidden gem in move the organ from the Bournemouth and is worth a north to the south side of visit. the church in order to assist with the building of Chris Greenwood additional church facilities Many thanks, Chris, for preparing this Organ Spotlight for us - Ed. beyond the north side of the church. Organ specification over on page 8. Griffen & Stroud / Osmond organ at St. George’s, Fordington Page 2 May 2019 BAO News BAO News May 2019 Page 7 OTHER EVENTS AND RECITALS Our third and final venue was St. Mary’s, where we encountered a fine May Venue Peter Collins instrument (not Thu 23 12.30pm David Davies (Buckfast Abbey) CP dissimilar in appearance to the Thu 30 12.30pm Simon Earl (Christchurch Priory) CP instrument from the same builder that June Wed 5 12.00pm Timothy Rice (St. John’s, Boldre) (BYO Picnic) BO once stood in the Turner Sims Thu 6 12.30pm Geoffrey Morgan (Christchurch Priory) CP Concert Hall, Southampton). St. Sat 8 11.00am David Beeby (Bournemouth) SS Mary’s organ was installed there in Thu 20 12.30pm Jonathan Bielby (Organist Emeritus, Wakefield Cathedral) CP 1990 but it had actually had a previous Fri 21 7.30pm David Briggs + Farrant Singers (Vierne’s Messe Solennelle) GM existence from 1977 at Dorford Thu 27 12.30pm Peter Gould (Derby Cathedral - Organist Emeritus) CP Baptist Church. Geoffrey Greenhough July gave us an enlightening talk and Thu 4 12.30pm Jonathan Vaughn (Christ Church, Greenwich, USA) CP demonstration, before we were Thu 11 12.30pm Paul Griffiths (Dubai) CP allowed our turn to sample the variety Sat 13 3.00pm Ian Harrison (St. Stephen’s, Bournemouth) RH of sounds. Sat 27 3.00pm David Davies (Buckfast Abbey) RH August A lovely day was had by all! Sun 4 3.00pm David H. Price (Thailand) GM TR Sat 10 3.00pm Stephen Carleston (Bolton) RH Sun 18 3.00pm Stephen Binnington (St. Gregory’s, Marnhull) GM Sat 24 3.00pm Daniel Campbell (Richmond Hill St. Andrew’s URC) RH September GLORIOUS DEVON Sat 7 3.00pm Samuel Bristow RH Sun 15 3.00pm Anna Hallett GM A dozen or so people ventured across one or two county boundaries in mid- Sat 21 3.00pm Sam Hanson (St. Peter’s, Bournemouth) RH May with a degree of inquisitivity, curious to know what lay in store in the form Sun 29 3.00pm Bill Tomkins (Lutterworth Methodist Church, Leics.) GM of a new organ made by the Italian firm of Fratelli Ruffatti - the first in the UK October by the firm - in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of Buckfast Abbey. Thu 3 12.30pm Peter King (Bath Abbey - Organist Emeritus) CP Wed 9 7.30pm Ian Tracey (Liverpool) GM The organ is actually two instruments - the main one in the Quire and upper triforium, and the other in the west gallery. At each point there is a four-manual Venues: console, both of which can control the entire organ. We were met by Abbey BA Beaulieu Abbey Church, Palace La., Beaulieu SO42 7YG beaulieuchurches.org.uk Organist, David Davies, who gave us an interesting talk and demonstration of BO St. John’s, Church Lane, Boldre SO41 5PG www.bsbb.org.uk the organ. That the CP Christchurch Priory, BH23 1BU www.organrecitals.com/christchurch instrument could be GM Gillingham Methodist Church, Dorset SP8 4AG www.musicatgmc.org.uk considered a tad large for RH Richmond Hill St. Andrew’s URC, St. Stephen’s Road, Bournemouth BH2 6JJ the building might be SS St. Stephen’s, St. Stephen’s Way, Bournemouth BH2 6JX btcp.org.uk regarded as an LYNDHURST DEANERY & ST. JOHN’S PATRONAL EVENSONG understatement, but the ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, CHURCH LANE, BOLDRE. SO41 5PG immense range of tonal CHOIRS FROM AROUND THE DEANERY ~ SUNDAY 23 JUNE, 6.30PM colours make for a most Responses - William Smith ~ Canticles - Stanford in B flat interesting and playable O Come, Ye Servants - Tye ~ All People That On Earth - Vaughan Williams organ.