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Welcome to the articles section. Here you'll find editorials from the OrganFax team and leading figures in the Organ and Keyboard industry, as well as tutorials and other articles from key manufacturers.

All of our articles are conviently downloadable in PDF form. You will need need a free piece of software called Adobe Acrobat to view them. And please don't forget, copyright applies to every article.

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Free Yamaha Club Magazine

Free Yamaha Club Magazine

Category: General / Misc

Here's your chance to try out an issue of the fabulous Yamaha Club Magazine for free. Our thanks go to Glyn Madden from the Yamaha Club for the copy of the magazine.

If you would like to subscribe to the magazine more information can be found here

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Scarborough Rocks!

Scarborough Rocks!

Category: General / Misc

We recently received this excellent article from our good friend Darrell Lomas at the North East Derbyshire Organ Society. 

Darrell and his team arranged a member's trip to see and hear the ever popular duo, Andrew Nix and Tony Stace in their recent show together at the fabulous Scarborough Fair Collection in Yorkshire. 

Well done to all involved in presenting what appears to have been a fantastic afternoon's entertainment for all!

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Jean At St. James!

Jean At St. James!

Category: General / Misc

On December 3rd, Jean Martyn was invited to play for the Not Forgotten Association at St. James Palace in front of the Princess Royal.

Read more about her day and her new acquaintances...

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Allen Warrender

Allen Warrender

Category: General / Misc

Allen was quite a familiar figure on the organ circuit in the latter part of the last century and many on the east coast will remember him.

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The Theatre Organ Fact Finder

The Theatre Organ Fact Finder

Category: General / Misc

The Cinema Organ Society web site is huge and a major resource for the organisation. The 'COS', as it is known, is intended for those interested in organ music as entertainment, with the emphasis on the cinema or theatre pipe organ. For the subject of this article though we thought we would look at one section, the ‘Theatre Organ Fact Finder’. Here you will find everything you ever needed to know about the Theatre Organ and never dared to ask, plus a lot more. This article explains how and why the ‘Theatre Organ Fact Finder’ was conceived.

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Promoting Your Club

Promoting Your Club

Category: General / Misc

This article has been donated by the club secretary of a well known and successful organ society. It is an important subject to all interested in the organ and keyboard business. Whether club or player we are all affected by current economics. Arguably, the most asked question relating to the very survival of many organ clubs and societies is “How can we increase our concert attendances?”  The following thoughts and suggestions may not be entirely appropriate to all clubs, nor are they intended to be comprehensive.  However, it is hoped that they will at least provoke some form of positive reaction.

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