30 December 2011

Information about Wersi Direct’s appearances during the first quarter of 2012 is available on our Wersi Direct page.

We have also heard from Peter Armitage (Wersi UK) that his new showroom is developing well, though there is still much work to be done. He has also been involved in removing the Wersi Louvre from the Blackpool Tower for recording of “Strictly Come Dancing” and in its reinstatement afterwards. In 2012 the Wersi UK website will be expanded.

22 December 2011

Jingle Bells, a seasonal greeting from Dunlap and Pennington. It’s an audio mp3 file.

12 December 2011

For our USA members, there is a poster advertising a January concert by “Dunlap & Pennington” now in our Wersi-USA Room.

7 December 2011

There are several new packages for the OAS-7 and Pegasus Wing now available from Wersi Direct, links to which are on our Wersi Direct page.

19 November 2011

A new, full Wersi Product Brochure is now available to view and save as a pdf file from the Wersi Direct website.

16 November 2011

Just received from Wersi Direct:

Wersi Direct are holding a day of tutorials and technical sessions on MONDAY 16th January 2012 in Windsor, Berkshire. The Wersi Direct Team will be in attendance and will be running tech sessions in the show room all day.

The cost of the day is £35, which includes a lunch meal in the Harvester. We are offering a special rate of £30 to all WersiClub Members.

Admittance is strictly by pre-booking only - spaces are limited to only 12 places - as we want to keep it very informal and personal.

The subjects of the day are entirely chosen by the guests - we can cover anything from presets to performance, reverb to recordings.

3 November 2011

Thomas Shevels has produced two translation dictionaries for us all to use. They provide an alphabetical list of the common German words found on Wersi instruments etc. You can download these as pdf files from our Articles > General Articles page.

26 October 2011

Those Members who were at the Wersi Direct Oktoberfest will be interested in this e-mail which Ken and I have received:

The WERSI Direct Ltd team would like to extend our sincere thanks to both of you, and also to the members of both WERSI Club International and WERSI Club UK.Focus. All of the hard work has paid off and we are all quite excited and keen to start organising the 2012 festival, which will be bigger and longer with more concerts and even more tutorials.
        
A DVD will be available before Christmas. We'll keep you advised of the release.

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(Of course, all members of WersiClub International are also members of WersiClub UK.Focus, and vice versa, as we’re just two arms of the same Club.)

EDITORIAL

February 2012

After the flurry of activity around the December update, things have gone rather quiet on the Wersi front. I am led to believe that events in the pipeline are proceeding along the pipe and we should look forward to some new developments appearing soon. If you read the review of the Pegasus Wing in the magazine “Organ and Keyboard Cavalcade” then you’ll be aware that a glowing report was provided by Michael Wooldridge, and he’s certainly had a considerable amount of experience reviewing organs and keyboards.  It will be interesting to see if that encourages an increase in sales. We are certainly now experiencing a dual approach to Wersi developments: those for the OAS-7.1 and those for the Pegasus Wing, although there are of course, overlaps.

There has been a very interesting response to my request for “wish-list” items for OAS-7.1. All those so far received are on our OAS - Members’ Wish List page and have been passed to Wersi Direct who take them to their meetings with Music Store. Don’t expect an immediate result. In fact, don’t necessarily expect a result at all. It all depends on many factors: ease of provision and considered universality of the wish to the majority of users being just two such factors.  It’s an interesting exercise, however, and does demonstrate how varied are the ways in which Wersi instruments are used. There’s another side to all that which we haven’t yet explored. Does anyone reading the wish-list actually have the experience of providing a work-around by which a form of the wish can be achieved using the existing software? It may not be quite as good as a dedicated provision but may well be useful, nevertheless. Do let me know: I’m sure members would be interested.

There is now a considerable number of optional items available to purchase for using on a Wersi instrument. These range from original Wersi-produced items which appear in the Activations List on the instrument, like the various Sounds Packages, to items produced by Wersi Direct like their many Registrations Packages. I wonder if any of our members who use these packages would like to write a review of them. We have some such articles from the early days of WersiClub International but nothing of recent origin. While the opportunity to try out the Wersi packages is useful, we cannot do that with the Wersi Direct Registrations. For those a review may help others decide on their most beneficial purchase. Of course, such reviews are very subjective, but there’s no reason to restrict the venture to just one review of a single product, thus allowing a balanced view to emerge. If you’d like to submit such a review, just send it to me via our e-mail contact@wersiclub.co.uk and I’ll set up a special page for them.

Happy playing,

Colin

VIDEO LINKS

22 January 2012

“Red Roses for a Blue Lady” from David Dunlap: arranging and playing to aspire to.

30 December 2011

A truly splendid arrangement by David Dunlap of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”.

13 December 2011

To get you into the Christmas spirit, do have a look at David Dunlap’s Christmas video “We Need a Little Christmas”. Three cameras are now being used to great effect.

5 November 2011

Congratulations to David Dunlap on his 70th You Tube video : Tico Tico.

3 November 2011

David Dunlap : A medley from “Hello, Dolly!”, highly entertaining and informative as usual.

9 October 2011

David Dunlap : A fascinating presentation of Enough is Enough / No More Tears.

19 September 2011

David Dunlap : A splendid arrangement and performance of Ànema e Core (With All My Heart and Soul).

11 September 2011

David Dunlap : A special 9/11 commemorative performance of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.

30 August 2011

David Dunlap : The beautiful aria O Mio Babbino Caro, from the opera "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini.

26 August 2011

David Dunlap : The Lost Chord by Arthur Sullivan.

22 August 2011

David Dunlap : Master of the House from Les Miserables.

Klaus Wunderlich : Live on the Wersi Helios, 1984, from Pebble Mill at One.

Klaus Wunderlich : Live on the Wersi Spectra CD, at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.

[There is a considerable number of Klaus Wunderlich videos on You Tube : enjoy.]

Latest Information from Wersi Direct 10 November 2011

Dear WERSI friends,
 
We are pleased to announce our fantastic new 'Drawbar Collection Vol.1' software for all OAS 7 instruments (with Real Drawbars). Update 22 December : Drawbar Collection Vol 2 now available - follow that link for information.

 
The new software features famous sounds from the Hamond B3, WERSI Spectra and Helios organs as well as Klaus Wunderlich Hammond Sounds and Franz Lambert.

     
At only £35, it's a bargain! Go on and treat yourself to the genuine 'hard' to make WERSI organ sound!
  
Link to Wersi Direct website page for Drawbar Collection Vol 1   

   
Wersi Direct Ltd
info@wersidirect.com
Phone: 0800 084 2013
www.wersidirect.com