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Our Organ and Organist
The Organist.Grant Vicat
Born Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex 18.08.1958
Educated at Lancing College (where I first had organ lessons in 1972) and at University of London, King’s College where I graduated in Classics. For several years I had organ lessons with Geoffrey Hannant.
Since 1995 I have been teaching at Moreton Hall Preparatory School in Bury St Edmunds and am the School Organist.
I also play once a month at Euston Parish Church.
Married to Dr Helen Forte who also teaches at Moreton Hall Preparatory School and is also a book designer, notably Minimus Books 1 and 2. We have a daughter who is studying Biology and Human Physiology at the University of St Andrews. She is an organ Scholar there
The Organ in St Mary’s Parish Church, Ixworth
The organ was built by Nicholson and Lord of Walsall in 1891, and, apart from an electric blower and a balanced swell pedal, survives in its original state.
The Swell manual has a Cornopean, Hautboy, Mixture, Geigen Principal4, Viol D’Amour, Voix Celeste, Horn Diapason, Lieblich
Gedact, Lieblich Bourdon16. The Great has a Clarionet, Mixture, Fifteenth2, Harmonic Flute4, Principal4, Dulciana, Gamba, Stopped Bass and Clarabella Treble, Open Diapason.
The Pedal has a Double Open Diapason16 and a Lieblich Bourdon16.
There is a Swell to Great and Swell Octave to Great coupler.
The pedal board is concave and radiating and has 30 notes. There are also Swell to Pedal and Great to Pedal couplers together with three Swell combination pedals and three Great combination pedals.
It is maintained by Bill Johnson of Snetterton, Norfolk, who made sympathetic improvements to the organ in St John’s Church, Bury St Edmunds. He has looked after the organ in St Edmundsbury Cathedral for a number of years.
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