| … and the floor will shake |
29/03/2019 |
| 100 Accessible Hymns |
18/07/2016 |
| 100 Easy Hymns |
23/02/2014 |
| 1560 and all that |
07/11/2010 |
| A carol Mass for Christmas – no learning required! |
01/10/2015 |
| A Catholic blog list |
02/07/2013 |
| A choral mystery |
14/05/2016 |
| A Christmas Gloria |
14/11/2016 |
| A Gloria from scratch! |
20/11/2013 |
| A Gloria on the loose |
06/09/2019 |
| A Happy Ship! |
26/08/2012 |
| A leaner meaner website |
09/11/2018 |
| A light mystery |
12/09/2014 |
| A month with a difference |
17/11/2017 |
| A New Year begins … |
01/01/2014 |
| A not-immediate’ Gloria |
08/11/2015 |
| A personal problem |
19/09/2014 |
| A psalm too far? |
17/05/2017 |
| A reader’s view: guest post by Gill |
28/01/2014 |
| A Recital by the Oracle |
29/08/2016 |
| A very small token of appreciation |
26/04/2019 |
| A Wonderful O-Puss! |
18/07/2014 |
| About time |
30/05/2014 |
| Affairs Papal still developing |
25/07/2010 |
| After the recital |
12/09/2016 |
| All depart in silence |
19/04/2019 |
| All over bar the shouting |
02/01/2018 |
| An Easter Crisis! |
03/04/2018 |
| And a hymn book |
29/03/2013 |
| And also with your spirit |
04/08/2012 |
| And the good news … |
09/09/2011 |
| And the people continue acclaiming: |
15/08/2016 |
| Announcement: a little extra help for the Sanctus |
07/08/2010 |
| Announcement: At last a CD of Bellahouston music! |
30/08/2010 |
| Announcement: Chants for Holy Week and Easter |
20/03/2012 |
| Announcement: check out the organ page! |
18/01/2011 |
| Announcement: Getting to Grips with the Gloria |
10/10/2012 |
| Announcement: have you booked for Saturday 9 April |
06/04/2011 |
| Announcement: Linlithgow Singing Day 19 May |
03/05/2012 |
| Announcement: Playing the Organ page has started |
16/11/2010 |
| Announcement: Practise MacMillan Mass on this webs |
20/07/2010 |
| Announcement: Publications page |
06/11/2010 |
| Announcement: Singing Day on 31 August |
02/05/2013 |
| Announcement: View from the grass roots |
13/06/2011 |
| Announcement: webpages are changing |
19/10/2010 |
| Approval committee revisited |
02/06/2013 |
| Are you a cantrix? |
20/09/2019 |
| Assumpta est Maria |
15/08/2014 |
| At church in Orkney |
28/09/2012 |
| Audio files can really help! |
16/05/2014 |
| Augmented unison? What on earth … ? |
05/04/2019 |
| Australia – the land of the dotted blobs! |
17/06/2012 |
| Back again! |
02/09/2015 |
| Back soon! |
18/01/2017 |
| Back to the bench? |
04/01/2019 |
| Beastly! |
03/03/2018 |
| Bless me Father … |
29/08/2014 |
| Blog goes Down Under! |
24/04/2012 |
| Blog has been Down Under |
24/01/2015 |
| Blog is in its tenth year! |
02/11/2018 |
| Blog returns! |
08/09/2017 |
| Bridal chit-chat (01): which Figaro piece? |
22/10/2009 |
| Bridal chit-chat (02): hotel wedding (1) |
04/12/2009 |
| Bridal chit-chat (03): hotel wedding (2) |
14/12/2009 |
| Bridal chit-chat (04): who decides the stops? |
12/01/2010 |
| Bridal chit-chat (05): the wedding with 31 organists |
10/03/2010 |
| Bridal chit-chat (06): ‘Bring flowers of the rarest’ |
17/05/2010 |
| Bridal chit-chat (07): the unexpected wedding |
04/08/2010 |
| Bridal chit-chat (08): soloists |
18/08/2010 |
| Bridal chit-chat (09): beware the piper! |
21/02/2011 |
| Bridal chit-chat (10): problems with ushers |
02/11/2011 |
| Bridal chit-chat (11): the reluctant bride |
03/02/2012 |
| Bridal chit-chat (12): where has the priest gone? |
04/07/2012 |
| Bridal chit-chat (13): video fees |
17/08/2012 |
| Bridal chit-chat (14): the early bride |
13/09/2012 |
| Bridal chit-chat (15): the non-weddings |
08/08/2014 |
| Bridal chit-chat (16): technical interference |
22/08/2014 |
| Bridal chit-chat (17): a very special soloist |
26/09/2014 |
| Bridal chit-chat (18): ‘Please stand’ |
26/07/2015 |
| Bridal chit-chat (19): when is a Mass not a Mass? |
17/11/2015 |
| Bridal chit-chat (20): Euro-weddings |
16/02/2016 |
| Bridal chit-chat (21): the Irish wedding |
11/07/2016 |
| Bridal chit-chat (22): confronting Widor |
01/08/2016 |
| Bridal chit-chat (23): when the scene just froze |
19/09/2016 |
| Bridal chit-chat (24): which Ave Maria? |
24/05/2017 |
| Bridal chit-chat (25): Ave Maria continued |
31/05/2017 |
| Bridal chit-chat (26): the winter wedding |
02/02/2018 |
| Bridal chit-chat (27): the royal wedding |
21/05/2018 |
| Bridal chit-chat (28): what if you don’t get paid? |
01/02/2019 |
| Bridal chit-chat (29): the unexpected Gloria |
21/06/2019 |
| Bring flowers of the rarest |
06/05/2010 |
| Bring flowers of the rarest |
24/04/2015 |
| Bring flowers of the rarest – quickly |
03/05/2019 |
| Bring flowers of the rarest – yet again! |
20/03/2013 |
| Bringing them in |
20/06/2014 |
| Bugs galore! |
07/02/2017 |
| Calling beginner organists! A chance to overcome nerves |
19/07/2013 |
| Cantors and confidence |
31/10/2014 |
| Cantors from Hell! |
26/01/2018 |
| Carols released! |
16/11/2018 |
| Changes ahead! |
21/05/2013 |
| Changes ahead! |
30/05/2015 |
| Chant – why the fuss? |
16/03/2014 |
| Choirs ain’t what they used to be! |
07/05/2014 |
| Christmas Carol Mass download |
04/12/2015 |
| Christmas Gloria – audio files |
21/11/2016 |
| Christmas just past … |
31/12/2009 |
| Christmas panic is starting |
31/10/2016 |
| Christmas past … |
21/12/2009 |
| Christmas wishes |
23/12/2014 |
| Christmas with a difference |
31/01/2015 |
| Collecting thoughts |
29/06/2015 |
| Colours of what do what? |
08/02/2019 |
| Complaints department |
06/06/2014 |
| Confronting the Blobs |
24/07/2011 |
| Covered lovely |
25/02/2016 |
| Cushions |
27/03/2013 |
| Dancing at Mass |
09/08/2019 |
| Desperately catching up! |
15/12/2016 |
| Did it really frighten the children? |
10/10/2014 |
| Did Theodore Dubois have four legs? |
19/06/2019 |
| Did you know about SCOTS? |
26/10/2009 |
| Discernment and vibrancy |
27/04/2016 |
| Don’t go away! |
10/02/2013 |
| Don’t play anything religious! |
17/11/2009 |
| Don’t pat the organist! |
07/04/2015 |
| Easter approaches … |
19/03/2013 |
| Easter greetings! |
31/03/2013 |
| Easter is late this year! |
11/01/2019 |
| Electronic organs (1) |
21/01/2010 |
| Electronic organs (2) |
28/01/2010 |
| Electronic pianos are awful! |
08/11/2009 |
| End of year report: could do better |
28/12/2018 |
| Epiphany Blues |
06/01/2014 |
| Eye Op |
31/07/2015 |
| Fame at last? |
14/01/2014 |
| Farewell to Calamus |
30/08/2019 |
| Fees: just checking |
07/06/2019 |
| Fees: what if you don’t get paid? |
28/11/2009 |
| Follow that film! |
05/04/2016 |
| Getting rid of a new electronic piano |
09/01/2010 |
| Getting rid of an old electronic piano |
05/01/2010 |
| Getting there |
09/01/2011 |
| Getting there – slowly |
09/04/2013 |
| Getting to grips with Twitter |
17/10/2016 |
| Girning about GIRM |
19/01/2012 |
| Gloria on the loose – update |
05/10/2019 |
| Glorias galore! |
29/10/2012 |
| Going with a bang |
19/10/2011 |
| Going with the flow – Alleluia |
11/03/2016 |
| Gotteslob – can anyone help? |
08/08/2016 |
| Greeting the Gospel in Lent |
23/03/2015 |
| Greeting the Gospel in Lent (2) |
01/02/2016 |
| Gregorian without the melismas |
13/02/2011 |
| Hallelujah! |
29/10/2010 |
| Happy Easter everyone! |
06/04/2012 |
| Happy New Year! |
01/01/2012 |
| Happy New Year! |
01/01/2013 |
| Harmonium memories |
07/07/2013 |
| Have you thought of joining your local organists’ society? |
05/10/2009 |
| He who sings prays twice? Really? |
11/07/2014 |
| Health and safety in the organ loft |
24/05/2019 |
| Holy Week |
23/03/2016 |
| Holy Week is crisis time! |
16/04/2014 |
| House-keeping |
04/07/2014 |
| House-keeping (2) |
18/07/2014 |
| How times do change … |
31/12/2010 |
| Hunt the Organist |
03/10/2010 |
| Hymns I DON’T want at my funeral! |
10/10/2016 |
| I must have missed something! |
15/02/2014 |
| I’ll never organise one of these again! |
25/08/2013 |
| ICEL chant accompaniments – Kyrie and Gloria |
25/08/2011 |
| ICEL chant accompaniments – update |
04/08/2011 |
| If at first you don’t succeed … |
25/10/2011 |
| Improvising at speed |
16/12/2014 |
| In the beginning |
12/12/2010 |
| Interlude: the uses of Youtube |
03/02/2010 |
| Is there anyone out there? |
24/03/2010 |
| It IS a performance |
18/06/2015 |
| It’s happened again! |
27/06/2014 |
| January blues |
16/01/2018 |
| Jerusalem – Blake’s or Parry’s? |
18/01/2016 |
| Judge not and always check your junk |
22/03/2019 |
| Just one thing after another |
21/04/2013 |
| Keyboard thoughts |
05/09/2014 |
| Knowing what you know |
13/05/2015 |
| Last call for Bonnyrigg! |
05/10/2011 |
| Lent and Laudate |
01/04/2014 |
| Lenten Gospel acclamations – complete set |
22/02/2019 |
| Let’s stay calm! |
30/03/2015 |
| Listening for the angels |
29/01/2011 |
| Locks and blocks |
17/06/2016 |
| Lorry mirror |
12/04/2019 |
| Macaronic dilemma |
07/12/2018 |
| MacMillan at the Vigil |
24/04/2011 |
| MacMillan on Musica Sacra |
30/09/2013 |
| MacMillan v NMAB – next round |
09/03/2014 |
| Manchester in Melbourne |
26/02/2015 |
| ‘Mind-bogglingly inappropriate’ |
26/10/2015 |
| Mistakes and senior moments |
24/10/2010 |
| Mix and match Masses |
24/10/2016 |
| Monsignor Michael Regan – funeral |
05/09/2015 |
| More about our organ trainees |
04/12/2015 |
| More about the Christmas Carol Mass |
08/10/2015 |
| More about the incredible organ bench backrest |
11/06/2018 |
| More about the new Gloria |
23/11/2015 |
| More on MacMillan |
14/12/2013 |
| More on the organist-hunt |
20/09/2015 |
| More ships! |
02/09/2012 |
| Music event – East of Scotland |
23/08/2019 |
| Music for the New Mass : opportunity to comment. |
04/02/2011 |
| New Lenten Gospel acclamations |
15/02/2019 |
| New resources for download |
15/12/2012 |
| No post this week |
05/06/2019 |
| Notes across the Pond |
10/02/2018 |
| Now that the dust has settled … |
06/09/2013 |
| O Holy Night |
19/12/2015 |
| O Holy Night – update and goat version |
20/12/2015 |
| O Holy Night (again!) |
18/12/2017 |
| Ohh hohh hohh-oh-oh! |
23/04/2010 |
| One chorus or two? |
04/07/2016 |
| Only temporary – honest! |
17/02/2012 |
| Organ beginners |
01/06/2016 |
| Organ beginners afternoon 28 May |
30/04/2016 |
| Organ beginners afternoon 28 May: advance notice |
17/04/2016 |
| Organist fees revisited |
10/06/2013 |
| Organist fees: is this Paradise? |
28/02/2012 |
| Organist funeral fees |
27/11/2009 |
| Organist funeral fees (2) |
10/05/2017 |
| Organist Marthas |
26/06/2019 |
| Organists in training |
15/10/2010 |
| Organwear |
20/07/2012 |
| Organwear (2) |
12/05/2013 |
| Organwear (3): Glasses |
22/08/2016 |
| Orkney pilot |
26/05/2013 |
| Our wonderful acoustic just got even better! |
10/11/2013 |
| Out and about (1) |
03/07/2011 |
| Out and about (2) |
12/07/2011 |
| Out and about (3) |
16/08/2011 |
| Out and about (4) |
24/08/2011 |
| Out and about (5) |
12/10/2011 |
| Outages |
25/06/2012 |
| Overtaken by Lent |
31/03/2017 |
| Papal Mass preparations |
06/07/2010 |
| Papal music galore! |
12/09/2010 |
| Paranoia? Never! |
13/01/2010 |
| Pastorale |
28/05/2011 |
| Pedalling again! |
17/04/2013 |
| Pianists (3) Electronic organs (3) |
03/03/2010 |
| Pianists coming to the organ: the basics |
17/02/2010 |
| Pianists: when you’ve finally been hooked … |
24/02/2010 |
| Pipe organs in winter |
09/12/2017 |
| Potential organists lurking in the congregation? |
16/09/2015 |
| Praise pedal problems |
19/04/2013 |
| Prayer in turmoil |
26/06/2016 |
| Pre-Loved |
08/02/2015 |
| Proof of destruction |
23/02/2017 |
| Proof of destruction – update |
27/02/2017 |
| Quite a surprise! |
15/08/2018 |
| Recovering … |
27/09/2010 |
| Recovery under way! |
30/11/2012 |
| Redressing the balance |
13/03/2012 |
| Religious experiences on holiday |
16/07/2010 |
| Return of the pump organ? |
14/06/2019 |
| Road works ahead! |
23/11/2018 |
| Rumours (2) |
26/01/2012 |
| Rumours (3): Bring flowers of the rarest |
26/05/2012 |
| Rumours rumours everywhere |
12/01/2012 |
| Running late |
28/06/2018 |
| Rural holiday |
21/10/2013 |
| Scottish composers please note! |
14/11/2014 |
| Secular music in church |
21/11/2009 |
| Sheep may safely practise! |
08/07/2010 |
| Shocked |
18/03/2013 |
| Should Catholic organists be paid? |
13/04/2010 |
| Small hands |
15/03/2019 |
| Snow on snow snow on snow |
22/12/2010 |
| Snow snow and more snow |
06/12/2010 |
| So easy to miss the obvious |
13/06/2014 |
| Still time to book for 19 May at Linlithgow! |
16/05/2012 |
| Strange priests |
25/07/2016 |
| Swimming the Forth |
08/07/2018 |
| Tales of the organ |
31/05/2019 |
| Talk about tasteless |
03/05/2017 |
| Technical mayhem |
10/08/2010 |
| Tethered to the bar line by Sibelius |
07/03/2015 |
| The Anytoun Old Kirk emails (1) |
15/11/2010 |
| The Anytoun Old Kirk emails (2) |
22/11/2010 |
| The Anytoun Old Kirk emails (3) |
27/11/2010 |
| The Anytoun Old Kirk emails (4) |
01/12/2010 |
| The Big Voice |
09/07/2015 |
| The Christmas Carol Mass has made it! |
06/12/2014 |
| The Disposable Gloria |
23/11/2011 |
| The dreaded lurgy is with us! |
28/11/2014 |
| The Great Change has started! |
04/09/2011 |
| The Incredible Organ Bench Backrest! |
29/09/2017 |
| The joys of scrolling |
10/05/2019 |
| The long handshake |
28/06/2019 |
| The longest day |
01/08/2010 |
| The Noble Art of Busking |
19/07/2015 |
| The Open Diapason nearly hit the Benylin! |
27/03/2014 |
| The organ and other instruments |
09/02/2010 |
| The perennial question – why don’t Catholics sing? |
25/09/2013 |
| The Pope and the Blog – Summing up |
14/09/2010 |
| The Pope’s favourite Mass setting |
23/05/2014 |
| The seaweed-eating sheep of North Ronaldsay! |
10/12/2012 |
| The Sign of … well Tension mainly. |
01/08/2014 |
| The Singing Organist |
03/10/2016 |
| The Sound of Silence |
13/09/2019 |
| The Three Tenors |
22/08/2018 |
| The Tired List |
27/09/2019 |
| The Transposing Problem |
28/08/2011 |
| The verses the little verses |
01/03/2019 |
| The Vigil |
04/04/2010 |
| Things Legal |
25/02/2018 |
| Those sheep again! |
25/08/2010 |
| Those wicked men again |
16/08/2019 |
| Thoughtfully yours |
05/03/2012 |
| Thoughts on James MacMillan’s latest statement |
24/11/2013 |
| Three-and-a-half beats? |
23/06/2011 |
| Time to relax a bit |
17/05/2019 |
| Total welly |
21/12/2018 |
| Tranquillised stops! |
30/11/2018 |
| Turning the page |
04/03/2011 |
| Tweet tweet! |
12/07/2012 |
| Twitter twitter about the MacMillan Mass |
28/05/2010 |
| Two volunteers already! |
05/08/2013 |
| Two ways of Going Home |
09/06/2012 |
| Update |
17/03/2013 |
| Wallpaper! That’s all we are! |
06/12/2015 |
| Watch this space … |
26/10/2018 |
| Website reconstruction: progress report |
18/01/2019 |
| Weddings from the organist’s point of view |
25/01/2019 |
| Welcome to the blog! |
05/10/2009 |
| What is a real organist? |
17/10/2014 |
| Whatever happened to the singing pinkie? |
11/02/2012 |
| When is a hymn book not a hymn book? |
12/05/2011 |
| When the moderator is moderated … |
14/12/2018 |
| Where have all the Catholic organists gone? |
05/09/2016 |
| Where have all the Catholic organists gone? |
29/04/2018 |
| Where have the wicked men gone? |
02/06/2012 |
| Where is everyone? |
25/07/2014 |
| While we’re on the subject |
16/12/2017 |
| Why the blobs? |
20/03/2011 |
| Windows good and bad |
26/04/2017 |
| Winging it! |
13/01/2013 |
| Winter is the danger season for pipe organs! |
05/10/2009 |
| Wiring the organist brain |
02/08/2019 |
| Word-screens |
11/01/2016 |
| You can’t win … |
08/03/2019 |
| You must read this! |
28/02/2014 |