Rugby School Chapel Organ

[ardcarp]

http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E00052

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E00052

Can't they afford it out of their school fees???

[PJPJ]

Can't they afford it out of their school fees???

Can't they afford what?

What are they wanting to do?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can't they afford it out of their school fees???

Can't they afford what?
What are they wanting to do?

As I read it, there's a bit of a misunderstanding going on here. The details of the Rugby School Chapel Organ is supplied by the National Pipe Organ Register - not by the school itself. The request for donations is from he NPOR (not Rugby School) to enable the costs of the Register website (£9000 pa) to be met and kept free to access to "anyone interested in the organ" - which I think means "the organ" as a general subject rather than the specific organ of Rugby School.

If I'm right, then Rugby School has nothing to do with the NPOR or its funding - in the same way that the BBC has nothing to do with this Forum?

[ardcarp]

One usually finds, however, that big 'capital items' projects in Public Schools and Oxbridge Colleges rely on endowments, bequests or OB fund-raising. (Maybe I should add OG !)

[BBMmk2]

At the school where I work at, we doing all the sorting out ourselves.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One usually finds, however, that big 'capital items' projects in Public Schools and Oxbridge Colleges rely on endowments, bequests or OB fund-raising. (Maybe I should add OG !)

At the school where I work at, we doing all the sorting out ourselves.

My apologies, but I don't follow what these posts mean. (Mind you - I'm not entirely sure what discussion the Thread is meant to be initiating, so perhaps I shouldn't've posted my previous post?!)

[PJPJ]

As I read it, there's a bit of a misunderstanding going on here. The details of the Rugby School Chapel Organ is supplied by the National Pipe Organ Register - not by the school itself. The request for donations is from he NPOR (not Rugby School) to enable the costs of the Register website (£9000 pa) to be met and kept free to access to "anyone interested in the organ" - which I think means "the organ" as a general subject rather than the specific organ of Rugby School.

If I'm right, then Rugby School has nothing to do with the NPOR or its funding - in the same way that the BBC has nothing to do with this Forum?

Having had a look at Rugby School's website (I've not visited the school) I noticed mention of several organs, including a two manual for pupils to practise on, and quite a lot of recent work and expenditure on new instruments and refurbishing the old. What lucky pupils (and staff)! Completely off-topic, I wish I'd been able to get to Daniel Roth's recital at Westminster Cathedral yesterday.

[ArpSchnitger]

Having had a look at Rugby School's website (I've not visited the school) I noticed mention of several organs, including a two manual for pupils to practise on, and quite a lot of recent work and expenditure on new instruments and refurbishing the old. What lucky pupils (and staff)!

As well as the Kenneth Jones instrument in the main, Butterfield, Chapel, there is an instrument in Temple Speech Room, the Memorial Chapel, and (not listed on NPOR) a small Skrabl in the Music Schools.

[MrGongGong]

What lucky pupils (and staff)!.

NOT that there is anything wrong with spending money on lots of musical instruments !

[Finzi4ever]

This bitchiness is unbecoming, though to be expected from this forum. Remember, cathedrals and all choral foundations are perceived as 'bastions of privilege' by the vast majority, whatever the reality.