LATEST

4 February 2010

A new series of five Articles by Club Member Jeff Ormerod. These explain how to optimise the sound quality of your Wersi instrument. See our Articles > OAS page for the downloads. Jeff would be pleased to answer any queries about his articles: just use the Club e-mail address to send them and I’ll pass them on and place them on our Forum site so Jeff’s replies can accrue there on each appropriate thread.

1 February 2010

There has been an answer to the Atlantis request on the Forum site.

20 January 2010

Latest entry on the Forum:  Request for Atlantis manual and lamps.

9 January 2010

...and another link from Bill, this time our very own David Dunlap with a fantastic arrangement of “Java” on his Wersi Scala which he’s now illustriously calling his “OpenArt Orchestra”.

4 January 2010

Bill has supplied us with two links for the New Year.  The first is to YouTube for a video of Chris Hopkins playing “The Closest Thing to Crazy” on the Blackpool Tower Louvre.  The second is to details about Claudia Hirschfeld’s new CD “Classicals” where there are four short extracts to listen to.

22 December 2009

A question has been placed on the Forum site about the new VB3.

7 December 2009

A Wersi Newsletter for December has just been received. You can download a pdf English translation of it from here.

EDITORIAL

February 2010

You must be aware by now that Wersi GmbH is having some financial problems. I am sure you will all join me in wishing Uli and Torsten all the best for a successful outcome. We at WersiClub International shall not indulge in idle speculation but continue in a positive atmosphere of hope.

As I have received no suggestions to place in the “Did You Know?” panel, that feature has now been removed from this page.  The “Did You Know?” Archive still exists and the link to that is now positioned under the “Site Index” link on this page.

Here’s a suggestion for a new feature.  Most magazines (and we have many similarities to a magazine, though we retain all articles rather than replace with new ones) have a “Letters” page. I’m sure a large number of our Members would like to have a voice on WersiClub International, so now’s your chance. If you send me, by e-mail, a letter you’d like published, then, at our next update in April, I’ll start a new page to include those letters. This page will not archive all the letters but will be newly composed every two months. Once started, of course, subsequent letters can be replies/comments to previous letters, so it could be very successful. I’m not writing any letters, though. So its success depends upon you, the Members, sending in your letters. Obviously I have to apply editorial privilege as to whether to publish or not, but so long as the letters don’t contravene accepted standards of decency or the law, they will appear. As Raymond Blanc used to say in his television series, “The Restaurant”, there is the Challenge!

There has been no information about the changes applied by R42 of OAS-7.1, apart from the new VB3 VST. If anyone has noticed any other change please let me know and I shall then update the OAS-7.1 Update Details page.

Do also have a look at Ken’s WersiClub UK.Focus site where he has a new item this month about making One-Touch-Settings on a Wersi instrument. This originated as an article from Club Member George Brown and, over the past month, he and Ken have worked together to produce this article for you. I understand from Ken that it uses a similar method to that in my article about Wersi OTS but provides an empty framework within which to work. I’m very much looking forward to reading it.

Our Membership continues to increase. That is very pleasing and we welcome all new Members who have joined us since the December issue.

As usual, direct links to all new items can be found on our Members’ Home Page under What’s New for February 2010.

Happy playing.

Colin

February 2010