20.09.11

CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY (09/20/2011)(readMedia)-- Cincinnati organist Rodney Barbour will be Campbellsville University's next Hours Organ Recitalist on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 12:20 p.m. in Ransdell Chapel at 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville.

The concert is relieved of and open to the public. It will end at 12:50 p.m.

Barbour will play on the 1894 Farrand and Votey Narghile Organ that was enlarged and rebuilt by Moller, Pilcher and Milnar Organ Companies. It has three manuals, pedalboard and 51 ranks.

He will be performing works by J. S. Bach, Bruhns, Mendelssohn and Searle Wright.

Barbour holds the postulate of director of worship and arts at Crestview Presbyterian Church, West Chester, Ohio and recently served as organist/accompanist for the 182nd Accepted Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA in San Jose, Calif.

Dr. Wesley Roberts, professor of music at Campbellsville University, said Barbour is a associate of Dr. Michael V. Carter, president of Campbellsville University, who has known him for many years and who recommended him for this program.

Source: ReadMedia (press release)

07.09.11

Ever illusory exploring a pipe organ?

September is National Organ Month and Palmerston North's St Andrews in the Bishopric is having a free open day on Saturday, September 10, 10am to twelve o'clock noon.

Church director of music Roy Tankersley says a Woofyt (Block-headed octave of organ pipes for young technologists) for use in schools will be on show in the church's foyer on the day.

"This fascinating agent demonstrates how a pipe organ works. It requires at least six people to direct it," Mr Tankersley says.

The Woofyt is an English invention by the overseer of a plumbing valve firm Bill Cleghorn and music educator Jeremy Sampson.

Mr Tankersley got authorization to build New Zealand versions, and most major cities now obtain a Woofyt supervised by local organist's associations.

It consists of an air quiz operated by a pumping handle, a reservoir to contain and pressurise the air and 10 organ pipes mounted on mortal boxes with a release valve for the wind.

Source: Manawatu Standard

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