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also very effective as an instrumental over communion,I have played it a couple of times. I just use quiet string stops on the organ. No need for the oboe stop when you have an oboe player stood next to the console.

If you look closely you will see that when the conductor is on the platform and Alan Titchmarsh welcomes everybody to the last night of the proms, the rail behind the conductor is not decorated (same as when the music stops). but when the music is in full swing it is. The prommers are actually b...

If the console had not been moved from it's original position by the stage, Nigel would have been perched on a Howard Seat as the console only just fitted on the lift turntable.

I wonder how much of this kind of thing really goes on between the ladies in choirs?

@64abbaman Victoria Wood did play Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques the musical. She alternated with Julie Walters.

Ian Tracey prefers to use the gallery console as it was the only console they had when he took the post. most visiting organists do end up playing the mobile recital console the first time they play so they hear the organ almost as the congregation would.

love how the tracker action adds percussion

@keyboardjeff This is actually Festive Trumpet Tune by David German.

Surprisingly, the theatre organ in the studio in California sounded quite good with the tremulants switched off. Yes thats the movies. The organ you see at the start is not the one you are hearing.

I remember seeing this when it was broadcast. Looks like the organ Dudley is playing is a 'Viscount Domus 8' (or similar instrument). My old school had one of those when I learnt to play the organ.

an all time comedy and music great. The worst part of it all for Dudley was not the accusations of being drunk, or the falling over but no longer being able to play the piano. Music was his life.

I remember being at the recording for this. one of the producers kept on appearing on the stage after we had sung a hymn only for him to announce he had a 'message from the man in the van' (the editor) and we'd have to record an entire hymn again sometimes up to 3 times. Good old Don West conduct...

however the To the Manor Born series came 2 yrs after the contest.

@HappyDiscoDeath No, it is just an orchestral version of the toccatta used for the sound track to the video.