Two organs from Grant, Degens and Bradbeer

Two organs from Grant, Degens and Bradbeer

It’s not often you sit down at an organ, in an unprepossessing church, in an unlikely part of town, and start playing…and suddenly you’re covered in goosebumps. Officially we were at St Mary’s Woodford, in East London, for a RCO…

Copyright made simple

Want to know if music is public domain?  Here’s a useful guide from the IMSLP Petrucci Library which defines what exactly qualifies as public domain* music in Canada, the US, the EU, and China, Korea, Japan and South Africa. *…

More on the Moor double keyboard piano

More on the Moor double keyboard piano

Apologies to Klavier-Moor fans who have been waiting for me to post more.   I’ve added two pages – one with some downloadable pdfs taken from Herbert Shead’s book, The History of the Emanuel Moor Double Keyboard Piano which is the…

Focus on feet…pedals-only repertoire

I have had a a couple of brilliant emails from Michael Wong in the States discussing pedals-only repertoire, after my blog post on Joyce Jones.   Michael’s suggestions are on a new page here.  There’s another page of pedals-only in production,…

Archangels from Frederick Stocken

Archangels from Frederick Stocken

Frederick Stocken’s Archangels has just been published by Banks and I’ve already got my copy.  I’ve wanted to play these pieces ever since I found them on YouTube – to be honest the two outer movements are a little beyond…

Something more dramatic for the feet

Something more dramatic for the feet

  I’ve been following Michael Johnston of @michaelsmusic on Twitter for a while, and I had to share a recent tweet about his reprint of Dramatic Pedal Studies by Hamilton Crawford Macdougall  (1858-1945) in which the parts given to the…

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