Sunday Worship

[Vox Humana]

Really?

Well, I'm only guessing, but I've had another listen and I can't convince myself that pipes are responsible. I don't think it's an electronic either. Listen particularly for the 'reed' in the first hymn. There's also something about the initiation of each chord that doesn't sound quite right for pipes. Whatever stops were being used for the play-over of "As with gladness" sounded pleasant enough, but they didn't sound like either diapasons or flutes to me and, apart from that 'reed' it all sounded much the same. The lack of 16' pedal tone raised my eyebrows too. If it really is a pipe organ, I'd be selling it.

[ardcarp]

I wondered if it was a very small chamber organ and that there was a string quartet present..as I suggested in #1. But I was only listening on a bedside tranny, so could well be mistaken. I'll have an another listen when I get home ce soir.

[mw963]

Presumably it's this:

http://ydoa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/St-Michael-le-Belfrey-1.jpg

[ardcarp]

...that's why it sounded so distant.

[mw963]

Sorry, mind totally AWOL when I wrote my previous. Please ignore, or better still sympathise!!!

[jonfan]

This looks more like it. Nothing about the instrument on this site or the National Register as far as I can find. Looks an interesting little piece of kit.

http://ydoa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bishopthorpe.-Bishopthorpe-Palace-Chapel-1.jpg

I think this is undoubtedly the instrument used in the service and just right it is for a space that is obviously quite intimate. Intimacy fitted the whole tone of the service right down to the beautifully balanced singing. Wonderful, rich Yorkshire tones from the very young lesson reader with superb rise and fall of the voice.
The nine year old last year at our Nine Lessons conjured fantasy images worthy of Monty Python when she described the shepherds being greeted by a millipede of the heavenly host.

[Once Was 4]

The C of E is a broad church and there’s room for both as shown by the worship in the Minster contrasted with that in St Michael le Belfry next door. No need to cross swords with either as both are needed.

My apologies: I had not, and should not, told the full story; there was much more to it than that and it would have been better not to mention it at all. But it was a church matter.

A retired vicar whom I know told me that the job of a parish priest is impossible as you have to please so many different people. But my dispute was over the attitude shown to older persons (including myself). Enough.

[jonfan]

My apologies: I had not, and should not, told the full story; there was much more to it than that and it would have been better not to mention it at all. But it was a church matter.

A retired vicar whom I know told me that the job of a parish priest is impossible as you have to please so many different people. But my dispute was over the attitude shown to older persons (including myself). Enough.

Apologies not needed, agree a job of a priest is well nigh impossible to please everyone. I totally respect and admire those who respond to the calling today.

[Vox Humana]

This looks more like it. Nothing about the instrument on this site or the National Register as far as I can find. Looks an interesting little piece of kit.
http://ydoa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads...e-Chapel-1.jpg

Yes, I guess that that must be it.

[ardcarp]

Definitely a string quartet there too, playing very sensitively and discreetly. (Try listening to verse 3 of the first hymn.)

[Cockney Sparrow]

Glad you've established the facts. (A relation has lived less than half a mile away on the same road as the Palace, for 25 years or so, and knows some of the support staff. I thought I might need to request a physical inspection to resolve the uncertainty!)

[jonfan]

Glad you've established the facts. (A relation has lived less than half a mile away on the same road as the Palace, for 25 years or so, and knows some of the support staff. I thought I might need to request a physical inspection to resolve the uncertainty!)

Well nearly all the facts. It would be nice to have the choir and string players credited as is usually the case. Any chance of your relation knocking on the Palace door in the near future to check it out?

[fsharpminor]

Why? The service was from the chapel at Bishopthorpe, not St Michael-le-Belfry. The chapel has a small chamber organ.

[jonfan]

Why? The service was from the chapel at Bishopthorpe, not St Michael-le-Belfry. The chapel has a small chamber organ.

Er Yes of course but to ask about the choir and string players.

[Bella Kemp]

I thought the tone of the service was exactly right - epiphany, after all, is a time of wondrous awe and a certain apprehension. After the exuberant joy of Christmas now comes the time for a moment of quietness as we, along with the Magi, contemplate all that the birth of the Christ will bring. Herod is never far away - we know he won't win; but, gosh, each time it seems a close-run thing.