Danemouth Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said: This one was originally fully pneumatic Jamie, but now is electro-pneumatic, it was upgraded in the 70's, but lost the 'Choir' division manual at the same time unfortunately. The project now under way is to move it a few feet, as it is positioned really poorly in the building, although that is how it was built. The original builders (Brindley & Foster) must have despaired when they saw where it was to be positioned. It only needs to move to the outside of the two arches that contain it on two sides, but that will cost a king's ransom. Doing my bit to help fundraise. Our church has a small 1960s Pipe organ {two manuals). Last year it had an overhaul and retuning - cost well over £10k Tell me about it! Dave 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said: Anybody with experience of church acoustics and organs would know that. Did they get Del Trotter in to move it (after his notable success with restoring chandeliers). Had a similar experience, many years ago, when some genius decided to move choirs for a concert in St Paul's to a position below the dome. Radio listeners at home enjoyed the concert. Those in the cathedral, including the Queen, heard very little of it. It wasn't moved Joseph, that is where it was installed (1883 - corrected date!)! Dr Litman wants to move it out of the arches. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 Just now, Danemouth said: Our church has a small 1960s Pipe organ {two manuals). Last year it had an overhaul and retuning - cost well over £10k Tell me about it! Dave Yes, this one was recently overhauled and tuned, by Gary Owens Organ Builders. They did a great job (it was in dire straits beforehand) but eek the cost! It actually sounds better than it has done for years, they're really good. 12 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Barry O Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 2 minutes ago, AndyB said: A tad flat....at least to us Northern beer drinkers... Baz 2 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 Froth should stay in the various threads on here dealing with new Bachby releases and suchlike. 5 4 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 Do you think we ought to tell Rick about the back pack rules at Ally Pally? Y'know the one about the backpack wearer buying the first round (and subsequent rounds). 2 2 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 while some ERs will be drinking beer at a large building that used to be the home of BBC Television, I will be sat at the Grammar School at Leeds receiving a "Scorers Update"..sounds thrilling but as I have organised the room and refreshments I had better be on my best behaviour... One more loco to finish sound fitting to then a bit of weathering..deadline is two weeks today.. but I have a busy week next week (in addition to a trip to see very, very poorly pal next Friday (if he is OK to see me). Soccer being watched...at least I haven;t fallen asleep watching it unlike last night... Time for a beer methinks.. Baz 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Barry O said: A tad flat....at least to us Northern beer drinkers... Baz Looks perfect to us Southerners especially if it is Tripple F brewery Edited March 22, 2019 by roundhouse 9 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, TheQ said: I Paramedics start at £23,000 and get to £29,000 without promotion or overtime or london weighting, with promotion the absolute top level (very rare) is £71,000. Which means like nurses, they start on more than my wages after 40 years + working in electronics with a degree... In previous lives, as a degreed engineer, I've never broken the £30K barrier. Now, I find myself on minimum wage + £0.19! 7 hours ago, Gwiwer said: And while that is true enough I shall also have had a shower the same morning and be wearing deodorant. Backpack? Yeah, sorry - gotta carry the spoils of war home somehow. Railway standard TOClite pack though so not a monster! If I do not have a safe place to leave my rucksack (which I will have at Ally Pally!), I wear it as a Vorsack (Ruck = German for back, Vor = German for front!) Not only can I see who I am about to hit, I can also push them (gently) out of my way! 5 hours ago, grandadbob said: That was quite a large amount but it does not affect the modelling tokens so although I'm not intending to buy anything tomorrow (Cue Bob 81C saying "He always says that!" ) if I do see something I fancy I may be tempted. Hmmmm...should I bring a rucksack? It's a bit early for beer o'clock but I may have to celebrate the completion of Phase 1 of our home renovations and improvements. AFAIC, it's always Beer O'Clock! 12:30 under a palm tree on Saturday (23/3/19) see you there! Edited March 22, 2019 by JohnDMJ 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 Evening all from Estuary-Land. Ventured down to the bottom of the garden this afternoon. Behind the garden shed was a mass of brambles. I've cut them back as much as I can so over next week its out with the weedkiller. The shed itself is due for removal later this year and replacement by one nearer to the house. (To avoid confusion this is a wooden shed for gardening tools, the shed I'm lining out is a brick structure attached to the house.) 4 hours ago, Gwiwer said: I still have all of my organs installed. So have I but they haven't been played for many a long year. Tea to be drunk, be back later. 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 48 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said: In previous lives, as a degreed engineer, I've never broken the £30K barrier. Now, I find myself on minimum wage + £0.19! If I do not have a safe place to leave my rucksack (which I will have at Ally Pally!), I wear it as a Vorsack (Ruck = German for back, Vor = German for front!) Not only can I see who I am about to hit, I can also push them (gently) out of my way! AFAIC, it's always Beer O'Clock! 12:30 under a palm tree on Saturday (23/3/19) see you there! Has the 12.30 rendezvous relocated itself from the Gaugemaster stand? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 I was going to aim for the GM stand 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 16 minutes ago, grandadbob said: I was going to aim for the GM stand You would only miss and bump into something else. 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 17 minutes ago, grandadbob said: I was going to aim for the GM stand Its not a car show you know 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 2 minutes ago, BoD said: You would only miss and bump into something else. he'd probably go @rse over boll## somewhere and not make it. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 Evening Awl, I'll meet by the water, as I'm Fishing a boat out off the water tomorrow, which shall Be interesting without the crane.. Just back from a frustrating evening at the MRC, I've been looking for a pack of direction changing devices for several weeks now and this has caused some delays. So 5 minutes before I left, I looked for some Heather, didn't find that but did find the pack. Co incidences strike again I over heard two of the ladies at the MRC talking about family trees... And she mentioned Rawlings... And the variety of spellings they used. Which happened to match the variety of Rawlings in my tree, so we discussed places and it looks like we may be related. I'll need to print out the rawlings tree on the net put up by a second cousin... So we can see if there is a match... Time to drink my choccy, goodnight Awl. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2019 5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: Ladders are a perpetual source of frustration for me. I am overweight, such that I am *slightly* over the rated weight for many commercially available, household folding step ladders. Sometimes you have to look hard to find the rating. I bought a small step stool from the Swedish meatball and flat pack emporium. As I was assembling it (and thinking how structurally inadequate it looked) I found the sticker indicating it's rated weight. I ended up giving it to my daughter-in-law, with strict instructions to forbid my son to use it (he is heavier than I). I'm still looking for furniture grade step stools so I can easily reach the tops of my bedroom blinds (they open from the bottom and the top) and my floor-to-ceiling library shelves. I'd like to have something ready to hand rather than moving my workshop short stepladder around. For suitably strong stepstools, your most likely supplier would be an office furniture specialist. We liberated one from a local council office and it is plenty strong enough for a large person carrying a case of wine. 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted March 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2019 Goodnight all! Baz 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 17 hours ago, pH said: An interesting phenomenon was that for a large part of the journey, the snow at the sides of the road appeared not to be melting, but rather subliming. The air temperature was in the range 6 to 17 Centigrade, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, but there was virtually no water on the road. I presume the air was so dry that solid snow was turning directly to water vapour. That does not happen much around here but I've noticed the effect often in Utah and Colorado. 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 3 hours ago, AndyB said: That horse should not be working. (I actually worked with a guy who would hold his wine glass up and announce that in restaurants. Talk about embarrassing.) 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Night awl 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said: Has the 12.30 rendezvous relocated itself from the Gaugemaster stand? 1 hour ago, grandadbob said: I was going to aim for the GM stand Then, as there seem to be other plans, why don't we shift our meet at the GM stand to 12:25 and then adjourn to the aforementioned palm tree? Edited March 22, 2019 by JohnDMJ 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted March 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23, 2019 Good evening everyone The weather has been dull all day, but we did get a brief bit of sunshine just after dinner, but it didn’t last long and we ended up with a light shower just after teatime. I wasn’t out long this morning, first I called in to Asda to get some yogurt that I can’t get locally, before getting what was required from the Trafford Centre. I was also successful in getting a pastie for dinner. In total I was out less than an hour. Once I’d put the shopping away I made myself a muggertea then sat down and worked on the plan for how many sockets and where they will be located in the cellar. I then worked out how many sheets of plasterboard I will need for the office area. Hopefully I’ll be able to put in an order in the next few weeks, once the rest of distemper has been removed from the walls. I’ve currently got about 30% of the work done, so hopefully a few more days work and I should have it done. Goodnight all 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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