Richard Hills plays the Duchess
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I have absolutely no musical talent, but I've played the Duchess. In the '80s, I was an assistant manager at Odeon Leicester Square and, once in a while, I'd awaken her from her lair late at night, rising up from the depths in silent majesty. I produced no music, but the sound effects she produced were tremendous!
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What a fantastic sounding Compton
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@animesis the concert dates tend to be very poorly publicised and appear last minute. It was playing for the premier week of The War Horse. I am sure if you emailed Donald Mackenzie, he can tell you when it's playing for premiere weeks and possibly some concerts
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Ive looked online, but I cant find concert dates for the Duchess, any ideas? I would love to go and see it with my father, Thanks
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Most enjoyable - brief as it is. It really has a splendid sound.I remember seeing Gerald Shaw at this beauty in 1962, but lost track of him after that. Did he retire from here?
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The melotone unit produces, what I can only describe as, an ethereal tone. Another non-pipe stop which was unique to Compton was the solo cello. One of these is fitted to the Margate Dreamland organ (in situ but unheard for many years). This is a string instrument with mechanically operated "fingers" which alter length of string so producing different notes. The sound was electrically amplified and fed through the chamber shutters via a horn speaker.
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In some ways, since the basic principle is similar. But the Hammond tonewheels produced sine waves, From an illustration in Richard Dorf's Electronic Musical Instruments, the Compton organs generated a sawtooth waveform, so their synthesis was subtractive, not additive, I would suspect. So they wouldn't have sounded anything like a Hammond.
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@JoePeterzak It's comparable to a Hammond tonewheel organ.
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Does The Duchess still have it's Melotone Unit?
deancook652 1 year ago
The Dutchess certainly does still have its Melotone and it is kept in working order by the resident organist Donald MacKenzie.
DLG949 1 year ago
Is it true that the bench gets hot from the lights?
UncleUlser 1 year ago
The lights produce a lot of heat and yes, they do warm up the bench.
DLG949 1 year ago
What is the "melotone" stop ?? Never heard of this stop in the US. Thanks.
JoePeterzak 1 year ago
@JoePeterzak
The Melotone is an electrostaticlly produced sound unique to Compton Organs.
Compton also produced Melotone organs without pipes.
DLG949 1 year ago