Music at St Nicholas
At the moment the church choir is very small and from time to time it is augmented by singers from other churches for special services. The music group plays at the family service each third Sunday of the month. The instruments are mainly woodwind and strings plus piano and drums (and occasionally organ). We are always pleased to welcome singers to join the choir and instrumentalists to join the music group.
The specification of the organ is as follows:
“Let Us With a Gladsome Mind” is the title of the CD recording of the organ, made by the director of music in 2005 copies are still available at £10 each. The Chamber organ in the Chancel is a single manual instrument dating from the early 1800’s. It has a keyboard that slides into the case when not in use and it has presently five stops (open diapason, stopped diapason principal , fifteenth and nineteenth). The single pedal operates a “shifting movement”, a genuine Georgian device for cancelling the brighter stops when depressed and so allowing echo effects without moving stop knobs or breaking the flow of the music. |
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