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Oliver Condy Editor

orking from home has given me the chance to spend my lunchtimes practising the organ – I’m now glad I bought a two-manual digital instrument some years ago! This month’s goal isimprovisation on the plainchant , transcribed by Duruflé. Thanks to the wonders of Hauptwerk software, I’m playing it on a Cavaillé-Coll organ for those rich, French diapasons and bold, velvety flutes.

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