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KEYBOARD PLAYER REQD - URGENTLY!!!! KEYBOARD PLAYER REQD - URGENTLY!!!! Age (25 - 45) A fully working professional tribtue band currently with 2-3 gigs per week and some abroad work require a fully professional keyboard player to join as a full-time member. This is a great opportunity for the right person. This band is a full-time occupation so commitment and the right attitude is essential. If you are interesed, or want to know any more information please call me on my mobile, or send a text and i'll get back to you. Chris=] Tel or Text - ++44 (0)7538 717098 Email - christianpoole@fsmail.net Posted by Chris on 15 February 2011  Fair play - and it's free I am building my own website and when completed I want to make it known to others. Two professional player friends have told me about the Organfax website and say they have to pay £25 each year to have a link listed to their own website. Why do you list players websites free while Organfax charge for doing it - bearing in mind that Organfax have advertisers who pay for their advertisements? Surely the proceeds from these should keep the their site going? If you can do it why can't they? Posted by Bob Jones on 14 August 2010 To be fair, this is something you should ask Organfax as we can only speak for ourselves. We list the websites of organ-keyboard players free of charge simply to help them. Although advertisements are placed on this website by Google, they are not linked or endorsed by us. They are simply in lieu of the free hosting. We could pay Spanglefish £24.95 per annum to have them removed and use the space for our own advertising - and even make a profit. We have, however, decided to keep the website simple, to benefit players like yourself. Posted by Ed. on 14 August 2010 Let's have more on GRAM-R-FONE I am grateful for your reply Alan. It is understood that the content of the YOUTUBE videos is limited in time - that is why I think more information about the featured players can be highlighted on a GRAM-R-FONE website (not in video form but just more details) - something you did not comment on in your message. You have given an appetiser on YOUTUBE and perhaps such a website could provide a follow-up, unless you are saving it all for a book you are writing? Posted by Isaac Daniel on 13 July 2010 You share some of our thoughts. However, knowing Alan Ashton as we do, we can say he not a person to stand still in today's world. Some of Alan's innovative ideas are shown on the YouTube Gram-r-fone channel - so don't be surprised if he comes up with something else that's different in the near future. Posted by Ed on 17 July 2010 Some one is listening - 3 more video clips have been added. Posted by Fred Morrow on 18 July 2010 Alan Ashton replies... I would agree I have a few years to go to catch up with Brucie and Jimmy Young…though with respect to the latter I would rather not catch up with him because he passed away 5 years ago!! Thank you also for the plug for the Organ Celebrities videos on You-Tube, posted under the ‘gramrfone’ name…there now being 16 already available and more to come. I will explain the reason for the lack of dialog… which is three-fold. Firstly I like to think that the written word and pictures, if used in certain ways, is a more concise form of presentation. Also, the You-Tube video Rules limit uploads to 10 mins maximum time, so it is a question of judicious editing in order to retain the basic storyline. There is a lot more that could be added to a number of the videos. Secondly, they were never intended to be for You-Tube, but were compiled for peripheral attractions at Organ Festivals, but I put them on the ‘back-burner’ after screening some longer ones at a Festival which resulted in a letter being received by the Promoter from one very narrow minded Festivalgoer who indicated that there were those people who did not want to see presentations about ‘dead organists’. I found this to be a strange comment especially as many of our organists today include the music of Reginald Dixon & Klaus Wunderlich….the latter being the subject of one of the videos that prompted the letter. Seems it’s OK to HEAR their music but not SEE their faces. Thirdly, I had given thought to supplying them on DVD to Organ Clubs who could, for a very small purchase price, screen them on Members Nights or the Annual Committee Meeting night when no major organist wants to hang around and tailor his/her programme to what remains of the playing time that night. For the price I had in mind it would have also been a huge saving to the Club. As more and more Clubs are investing in big screen CCT presentation, it seemed to be a good idea…but I never got around to marketing it! I felt I wanted to retain as much control over them in the light of how easy it is for illegal copies to be made. Ask any organist their views on that subject! Finally Isaac, thank you for reminding me that this year that I get something for nothing in the way of a free TV Licence. Not wishing to look a gift horse in the mouth I wish the BBC would take theatre and electronic organs seriously and feature them. Anything would be preferable to the deluge of sport throughout every day. Even the England Team has had to adopt a new theme tune….Out Of Africa! Posted by Alan Ashton on 08 July 2010 Perhaps it should be explained that the isolated letter to which Alan refers, was sent after "A Tribute to Mark Shakespeare" show at a Lyme Bay Festival that Alan produced. Tribute shows featuring other celebrities like Matt Monroe, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra (just to mention three) are often seen on TV - so what is the difference? It is a great compliment to the artiste to be remembered in this way and Alan should not be deterred. Posted by Ed on 08 July 2010 This month (August 2011) it will have been 15 years since a very good friend & one of the most talented electronic 'showman' organists there has ever been, passed away. His name? MARK SHAKESPEARE. I have just completely revamped the tribute show that I presented at one of Cled's Lyme Bay Festivals [ see earlier letter on this subject] and once the members of the Shakespeare family have had a chance to check it out for any inaccuracies or changes to be made, it will be posted in my ever growing Organ Celebrities series. The total viewing figures to date for the 33 films in the series is nearing the 50.000 mark....which taking into consideration 99.9% of them feature 'dead' organists, it does tend to prove narrow minded people are in the minority! So please do keep watching as new films will continue to appear from time to time. I find the individual viewing figures for the respective organists to be rather enlightening, and judging by them, the Dutch organist Cor Steyn seems to be constantly at the top of the list, along with Klaus Wunderlich. Posted by Alan Ashton on 31 August 2011 | 
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very best regards
Steve