Volume 1: The Technique of Organ Playing-Here is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playingstep-by-step. Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals andpedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today s church organist. Christopher Tambling was Organist andMaster of the Schola Cantorum of Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter s College Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He died in 2015.
