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by dunstan
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:12 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14274

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

If anyone can provide reliable advice as to how to prevent or (God forbid) deal with this scam, please post it here. I believe that that would be a useful service to our readers. The scamsters usually do this by sending a mail which looks legitimate, and takes you to a lookalike site to your mailbo...
by dunstan
Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:11 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14274

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Does anybody have a phone number for him? His account has clearly been compromised (yes, I had one too) and he needs to reclaim it pronto.
by dunstan
Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas greetings
Replies: 5
Views: 2853

Re: Christmas greetings

Being a bear of very little brain I need an explanation of an RSS feed and a google reading list. Igo all to pieces when I read things like that! Lesley Here goes - I'm rubbish at explaining things so if this isn't clear it's my fault not yours. Think of an RSS feed as being a sort of "newswir...
by dunstan
Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Health and Safety
Replies: 20
Views: 13183

Re: Health and Safety

Alas, I can't offer any suggestions for a choir singing in a small space. But sudden noises cause far more damage than ones which increase over time - metal working, dropped scaffolding poles etc are generally thought to be the most damaging sort of noise. But preventing damage is always a far bette...
by dunstan
Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:40 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas greetings
Replies: 5
Views: 2853

Re: Christmas greetings

Let me wish you all - posters and lurkers alike - a very happy and holy Christmas. Thank you for using the forum and making it such a good humoured and supportive place. Thank you for that, Musicus. My new year's resolution: to drop by more often. Now if someone would set up an RSS feed so I can ad...
by dunstan
Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:37 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Does your congregation sing?
Replies: 19
Views: 13037

Re: Does your congregation sing?

docmattc wrote:It was one of the few times I can honestly say I was accompanying the singing rather than having the lead it.

It's a good feeling when it happens, isn't it?
by dunstan
Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18391

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

And while I'm on a roll, I've always wondered whether to sing "For his mercies I endure" or "For his mercies eh endure" in the chorus of 'Let us with a Gladsome Mind' That one's definitely Ay (as in hay), not Eye. Makes a mess of the last verse of "Soul of My Saviour",...
by dunstan
Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18391

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

OK, I think this has now been done to death.

I choose Eck-shell-sees and Eee-oh.

Thank you all for playing :D
by dunstan
Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:45 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18391

Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

Ex-chelsis, Eck-shelsis or Egg-shelsis?

And in verse 2, Eye-Oh or Eee-Oh?
by dunstan
Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:39 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: technology and CDs and such.......
Replies: 49
Views: 18972

Re: technology and CDs and such.......

Will the next step be adding a trailer for next week's mass during the recessional hymn? Returning to the subject in question, here come my Grumpy Old Man credentials: I would prefer silence to, well, anything to "aid" the silence; I prefer unaccompanied singing to karaoke hymns. And using...
by dunstan
Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:16 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Guidelines for readers
Replies: 13
Views: 5404

More anecdotal opinion

I was told (so it must be true) that you bow to the priest to acknowledge that he has delegated the act of proclaiming the word - a sort of "thank you for granting us this privilege".
by dunstan
Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:30 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Things that happened at First Communions
Replies: 22
Views: 8788

Re: Things that happened at First Communions

Our turn yesterday - four candidates, at least two from regularly attending families (though not in our parish). One relative started taking flash photographs, and was kindly but firmly stopped. But the one girl was in a sensible white dress, two of the boys were in traditional white shirt and red t...
by dunstan
Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:44 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organists
Replies: 19
Views: 12939

Presets

I have a little instrument (digital) with just a single set of 5 presets. Piston one is kept for "grab something quiet", so just a quiet 8' flute coupled to 16' pedal, and a quiet string for the swell Then, in the same vein, 2-5 are for hymn accompaniment: 8'&4' Diapasons; add 2'; add ...
by dunstan
Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn book BearTraps
Replies: 23
Views: 10226

Re: Hymn book BearTraps

Ros Wood wrote:And Faith of our Fathers has diffences between Full Music and the Melody/Congregation editions. Is it England or we all that will be free?

Laudate has "our land", CFE (purple) has England. We were singing that it would be England that Mary's prayers would win back for Him.
by dunstan
Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:47 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn book BearTraps
Replies: 23
Views: 10226

Re: Hymn book BearTraps

Came across this one again yesterday: The purple version of Celebration has the numbers for "Faith of our Fathers" and "Eternal Father Strong" to save muddled up in the index. Some years ago my sister attended a Catenian funeral where this had obviously bitten, and they sang Eter...