WELCOMES YOU TO THE N. I. WEBSITE LAST SITE UPDATE 1 April 2025

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We are in the process of updating our website, and gradually the pages will become current again. 
Much has happened since the last update (over ten years ago) so please be patient.

Our business has shifted slightly to incorporate as many rebuilds as new instruments.  Customers are now realising
that the basic console of any digital instrument is a substantial component of the instrument cost, and it makes total
sense to reuse as much as is feasible.  The main problems we encounter are dissatisfaction with the existing
sound of instruments which are many decades old, thus it is expedient to replace the tone generating electronics
with modern sample based system, bringing a whole new depth of realism.  Amplifiers and speakers
can often be reused, but again we use many more audio channels to add further realism to the final sound.

The keys are replaced if they are worn, but in many instances they are perfectly servicable. If the organ has
moving drawstops or tabs, these are normally retained but re-engraved and often added to.  The cheaper
lighted tabs are invariably replaced with units using LEDs rather than bulbs which regularly blow.

The stop tour can be found on the Audio Page and showcases some of the sounds that we are currently producing.
We are immensely proud of the realistic nature of our samples. All stops use separate samples for every note
- they are not stretched to cover a range of notes, giving each note a unique quality. We really do believe
that this is a landmark within the digital organ industry.

There is also a recording of Choral Evensong, sung by the Priory Singers, and some of the accompanied
pieces are on the Audio Page including Howells' St Paul's Evening Canticles, part of Ps 119, the closing Hymn
(using the Parry tune "Rustington") and Howells' Psalm Prelude "de profundis" (complete with choir procession!).

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We are still involved in the digital enhancement of various pipe organs in the province, and have recently finished
two new and slightly "unconventional" medium sized 2 manual instruments here in County Antrim.
Full details of these organs will follow soon, and they incorporate all of our new high resolution stops.
Also recently completed is a three manual domestic music room organ with fifty four speaking stops...

All of our recorded catalogue continues to be available online - mostly as high quality 160k or 192k mp3 files,
and we would encourage you to browse through these on the Audio Page at your leisure. At some point we will
have to take the older stuff down, but we are changing ISP to give us much more online storage.

We aren't standing still. We are local, affordable excellence, designed and developed by organists, for organists.

Postal address:

40 Dunlady Road, Dundonald, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT16 1TT

Telephone number:

07714 023 964

You can browse at random through this site simply by clicking on the stops to the left.
For a guided tour of everything, the "pipes in the chip" logo will take you to all the pages in sequence.

If you wish to print the contents of this site, we have also prepared an Adobe Acrobat document which,
although not identical in format, nevertheless has all the technical information on 7 A4 pages ready to print.



Please note that this document has no information on the featured organs at the moment.

©SGH / Phoenix Organs NI April 2025