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Win a copy of "Looking up"

25/4/2015

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Today I'm celebrating the launch of my book of photographs of organs and ceilings, published by Dr J. Butz Musikverlag of Bonn, under the German title "Dem Himmel nahe ~ Faszinierende Blicke auf Orgeln und Gewoelbe"; in other words "Looking up at organs and ceilings! 

This trilingual volume with hard cover and a dust jacket has photos of more than 50 organs from 4 continents spanning 5 centuries, and a copy is there for you to win if you enter the competition. It's free to enter and details are on the competition page. But hurry as entries must be in by the end of Tuesday May 5th. 

ENTER HERE
Cover picture
"Dem Himmel nahe" - or "Looking up at organs and ceilings"
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Organ jigsaws galore

24/4/2015

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Organ in preacher's church, Erfurt, GermanyMore jigsaw puzzles at Jigidi
This has to be a record: today I created a page full of online organ jigsaw puzzles for www.nzorgan.com and didn't stop to play with a single one. Oh well, alright then, maybe just one. Ok, so you're being picky - yes, yes, it was probably more like two. Three if you count the teensy one. But no more. Honest. :-)
So there you have them, on this organ jigsaw page which is part of www.nzorgan.com. Jigidi.com is the marvellous website which hosts such things but it can be very difficult to find specific subjects, which is why I decided to make a collection of merely a handful of puzzles which feature pipe organs - or parts of pipe organs. If I can resist temptation again, I'll add more pages of jigsaws from my Jigidi collection to this website. Remember that it is free to sign up to Jigidi, and well worth it, because you can save your puzzles for later. That's especially helpful when you are dealing with a 350-piece monster.
NOTE: Jigsaw enthusiasts more accustomed to the real-time variety might think a 300-piece puzzle is a push-over.  Not so; just different. At least you do know that you can't lose any pieces!
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Three more pages of captions...

10/4/2015

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Phew! I finished three more pages of installation captions from January through to March/April 1997. Put your mouse over the images and the caption will (should) pop up. Let me know if there is a problem. 
It brought it all back to me just how excited we were to watch as each pipe and piece fitted together with the expertise of the Rieger men. It really beat doing jigsaws, and we could only marvel at the clever designs and age-old methods that are still being employed to make pipe organs. We couldn't wait until the opening in May...
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New-look site now online

9/4/2015

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nzorgan website new look
You are HERE!
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Eeeek! And we thought it was so pretty...
Taaaa-daaaaa! Here it is - well, some of it. As announced in the April newsletter yesterday, the nzorgan site has had a facelift, and I am rebuilding it almost as I did when first building it all those aeons ago in 1997. Much work to be still done but it keeps me off the street and away from housework. So that's good. I will be adding captions to installation photos, completing the transfer of the Musings and Amusings articles, and of course, keeping you posted about the progress with the rebuild - when it happens.

If you discover any glaring errors, let me know; always glad to hear from readers.

The image on the left is the earliest I can find of the original site and was in circulation in maybe 1998, about a year after the organ opened, at a guess. How amazing that people didn't run screaming from it and ring the police. 

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Fresh new look for him, too

6/4/2015

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PictureNew website? For moi? And it's not even Christmas!
My Martin's had a big spruce up; not him (although he did have a hair cut the other day) but I've been slaving away at his new website so much that I've worn the white paint off my keyboard and have had to dig out a new one so I can see what I'm typing. It's a great excuse for typos of course, but..
I digress. Martin's new website is a considerable improvement on the old mish-mash which grew like topsy and which was almost impossible to find your way around - including for me. 
Check it out Martin's website here and let me know if you like it /hate it/ think the cats could do better etc. If I've missed including anything, please do tell me because I think my brain has shrivelled away to the size of a pea and the value of a piece of cardboard. 


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It's been 15 months

6/4/2015

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Yes, a long 15 months since we last saw the organ as it was being tucked up for the duration. How long? As long as it takes is the usual answer in post-quake Christchurch. 
I wanted to show up-dated photos of the organ, but since it doesn't appear practical to enter the auditorium any more (climbing Mt Cook in jandals would be easier), the nice people at the City Council have sent me two pictures to use on this website. It does look snug and secure. What a party we will have when the wrapping paper comes off. Whenever that is. Notice in the second photo how much work has been down on the lower stage area. Great to see.
If you want to see more photos of the pipe organ being put to bed, check out this page here

Christchurch auditorium 2015
Christchurch town hall auditorium and organ, 2015. Photo supplied thanks to CCC-CTH Collection 2014-2015
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Treasure trove of Musings

5/4/2015

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PictureSt Bertrand-de-Comminges - the setting for a creepy thriller.
I'm trying to transfer across each day at least something from the old site. Today - despite it being a dazzlingly beautiful day and the weeds in the garden poking their tongues out at me, I managed to get three more pages from David Bridgeman-Sutton's wonderful Musings and Amusings series in 2007 copied across. Do check them out- unexpected delights and surprises, and considerable amount of information all presented in a page of reading. 

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Back to 2007

1/4/2015

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Slowly, slowly, the transfer of articles from the old nzorgan website continues. I've now covered from the most recent Musings and Amusings back to "An Eloquent Music" in 2007. Blame the riveting cricket matches that have been a characteristic of this year's ICC Cricket World Cup, which is being hosted by Australia and New Zealand. And joy of joys, and against all our expectations, our superb Blackcaps team has for the first time ever, made it to the finals. Great joy and nail-biting in equal measures. The final is today, 4.30pm New Zealand time, in Melbourne. After that, we will have to remember what it was we did with our lives.  (That's one of the aspects of cricket - the games, even the ODI, take so long - it's both a good and a bad thing. ). So please don't try to contact anyone in New Zealand today - they won't answer the phone anyway. Would be a great time to have a military coup, come to think of it...

The earthquake pages are filling up too - so have a wander around those. I found some excellent videos which say more about these underground monsters than I ever could. 

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