May has been a pleasant, well-balanced month of playing, advising and social times.
On May 9th I gave the opening recital – to a pleasantly full church – at St Andrew’s Church, Orwell (near Cambridge). This was a clever electrification and rebuilding of a pretty ropy old tracker organ, designed by Canon Christopher Ivory and very neatly executed by Cousans Organs (these days based not at Lincoln but in Coalville, Leicestershire).
All sounded fine in the spacious village church and the digital basses (added owing to lack of room for any open 16ft stops) blended seamlessly with the pipes. The reception afterwards wasn’t bad either.