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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #180 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 09:12 »
not even the presence of number 1 Jack seems likely to tempt JCFC to Liversedge tonight.

Just as well, as frozen areas of the pitch led to the game's postponement.

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #181 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 09:32 »

Having been an organist at Methodist chapels for over thirty years I found the use of 'Tell me' certainly declined    fairly rapidly  and I don't recall playing it for many years   - replaced by 'modern hymns' which many of the older congregations struggle with - and still do  in smaller Chapels where some organists find 'modern'rhythms difficult to play

I am delighted that you still use the term "Chapel" as was always the case in my family.

To return to a discussion on here many years ago, does your congregation prefer Hereford or Wilton?

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #182 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 15:49 »
If I may butt in.....Ronnie Radford every time !

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #183 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 16:05 »
I would have you on the carpet for that.

I actually like both, and can understand why a music lover would choose Hereford - Hx Philip did on the old site -  and it is possibly more in keeping with the words, but Wilton stirs me rather more, given my nonconformist leanings.

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #184 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 16:31 »
Wilton as a tune is unfamiliar to me so I have just listened to it. A grand tune, very nonconformist in character but not as suited to Charles Wesley 's sublime words as Hereford in my opinion.  Among my favourite Nonconformist tunes is the wonderful Monmouth as well as the more famous Lyngham

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #185 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 16:35 »
Sadly I cannot find reference to a hymn tune called Axminster or Kidderminster ( or indeed CyrilLord ) so I am unable to return serve on the carpet theme.
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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #186 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 16:58 »
Sadly I cannot find reference to a hymn tune called Axminster or Kidderminster ( or indeed CyrilLord ) so I am unable to return serve on the carpet theme.
I'm sure JCFC's Methods will find one for you!

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #187 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 17:07 »

Having been an organist at Methodist chapels for over thirty years I found the use of 'Tell me' certainly declined    fairly rapidly  and I don't recall playing it for many years   - replaced by 'modern hymns' which many of the older congregations struggle with - and still do  in smaller Chapels where some organists find 'modern'rhythms difficult to play

I am delighted that you still use the term "Chapel" as was always the case in my family.

To return to a discussion on here many years ago, does your congregation prefer Hereford or Wilton?


Usually use Hereford - much nicer tune in my opinion but is slightly more difficult for congregations that are smaller number like 4 or 5 as is the case in many chapels these days if still open although Wilton is also used on occasions

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #188 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 17:22 »
I expect you have one of those rotating wheels in the middle of your dining room table as well !

While I remember, may I say that I was flattered that Whistleblower should think that I possess a proper table, let alone anything so refined as a dining room.
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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #189 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 18:37 »
Sadly I cannot find reference to a hymn tune called Axminster or Kidderminster ( or indeed CyrilLord ) so I am unable to return serve on the carpet theme.
I'm sure JCFC's Methods will find one for you!

Tune - Axminster composed by George F Austin appeared in Methodist Hymn Book 1917 -And are we yet alive

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #190 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 20:20 »
Sadly I cannot find reference to a hymn tune called Axminster or Kidderminster ( or indeed CyrilLord ) so I am unable to return serve on the carpet theme.
I'm sure JCFC's Methods will find one for you!

Tune - Axminster composed by George F Austin appeared in Methodist Hymn Book 1917 -And are we yet alive

How brilliant to have tracked that down. I am away, far from home, at the moment and so do not have access to my hymnals.

" And are we yet alive " I am presuming is the first line of a hymn. It's a fabulously good question and is usually the first thing I ask myself when rising from sleep each morning.

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #191 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 20:26 »
I expect you have one of those rotating wheels in the middle of your dining room table as well !

While I remember, may I say that I was flattered that Whistleblower should think that I possess a proper table, let alone anything so refined as a dining room.

My fantasy is that JCFC and Mrs JCFC, or a significant other, sit at either ends of a long refectory style table in a Northern baronial pile and, if a Lazy Susan be absent, slide the chafing dishes and condiments down to each other.

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #192 on: Wed 08 Mar 2023 22:39 »
I think this might be the one!




Brings to mind a recent (Valentine's Night) candle lit tour and meal at Dumfries House.  Whistleblower if ever you make the trip to the Burrell collection you should try and include Dumfries House (which is actually just outside Cumnock) and has possibly the finest collection of Chippendale (not of the type Mrs W might be thinking of) and Chippendale designed furniture in the world.  It also has an Axminster carpet dating back to the late 18th / early 19th century.  Also try to visit its "twin" so to speak, Mount Stuart on Bute which is full of fascinating symbolism that I'm sure you will appreciate.


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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #193 on: Thu 09 Mar 2023 00:07 »
As a chorister many years ago I recall our organist conducting a vote on whether to use Hereford or its AMR alternative, St Gregory. Hereford was the clear winner. It seems to me quite different in character from S S Wesley's other popular tunes, such as Harewood, Alleluia and Aurelia. It's a pity that the gentle St Gregory has largely disappeared, but perhaps this is partly because the other words to which it was set, 'Creator of the world, to thee', were intended for Septuagesima, although I would have thought that they could also fit the beginning of Lent.

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Re: Pyramid Patrol 2022/23
« Reply #194 on: Thu 09 Mar 2023 08:38 »
And are we yet alive is the opening hymn at the Methodist Conference every year. I've long thought it was a good question.
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