19 April 2012

Received from Wersi Direct:

Wersi Direct Ltd are putting on a Wersi Organ and Keyboard Exhibition on the 22nd July 2012 at Old Windsor Memorial Hall, Straight Road, Old Windsor, Berkshire. Entry to the exhibition is FREE and is open from 10am till 5pm.

All the Wersi Organs, Louvre, Scala, Verona, Abacus Showtime, Pegasus Wing will be on display for people to see, hear and try out

Brett Wales, Ben Scott-Hyde, Robert New and the Wersi Direct Team will be on hand all day to answer questions and give demonstrations. There will also be mini concerts held throughout the day.

Existing Wersi Owners are welcome to join us, to ask questions and to see and hear any new software or upgrade options open to them - or to simply say hello!

22 March 2012

New Wersi  “Sonic” organ unveiled at Musikmesse: no SG12 card, widescreen display and a 76-key lower manual. [24 March] English translation of a Wersi Forum site page by Bill Gray downloadable as a pdf file here.

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.

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.

EDITORIAL

April 2012

We are living in very exciting Wersi times. I’m not quite sure of my response to the announcement of the new Wersi Sonic organ. On the one hand, it’s a dramatic jump (or will be, when a working instrument is released) into current technology: a quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM minimum and a solid-state “hard-disk” must mean an instrument with a lightning fast response to whatever it’s asked to do. On the other hand, it introduces to current Wersi owners, for the first time in around twelve years, the concept of having to exchange instruments in order to take advantage of that new technology. Apart from the financial cost of that, there’s also all the time already invested in setting up Total Presets etc for an OAS-7.1 instrument, nothing of which would appear to be transferable to the new model. As in a game of Snakes and Ladders, it’s down the snake and start again. I find that a bit daunting.

For owners new to Wersi who purchase a Sonic there’s no such problem. I wish Music Store well in selling many of the new instruments in that way.  WersiClub International will need to recruit one of those new Sonic owners to join our Committee in order to be sure we can cater for that instrument. Fortunately, Ken has a great interest in keyboards and has volunteered to be our portal for owners of the Pegasus Wing.

We have received reviews from Thomas Shevels for some of the Wersi Direct Registration Packages, and a whole new page has been set up for these at Wersi Room>Wersi Direct>Software Expansion Packs.

Happy playing,

Colin

VIDEO LINKS

21 April 2012

More videos from Music Store, taken at the recent Musikmesse:

Robert Bartha (and Lisa Scheuring - vocal) :

The Greatest Love of All

Claudia Hirschfeld :

Live and Let Die

Villamartin

Star Wars

See from the last three what you’ll be missing if you don’t come to the Oktoberfest this year!

8 April 2012

David Dunlap : A Night Like This. Interesting use of the Manual Sustain on a piston or kick-switch.

6 April 2012

David Dunlap : Green Eyes. Great, as usual.

28 March 2012

Music Store has begun loading videos of the Musikmesse 2012 onto its You Tube TV Channel, including a couple of Claudia Hirschfeld playing the Louvre.

25 March 2012

Robert Bartha on Wersi Louvre, at the Musikmesse. Notified by Bill Gray.

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”.

22 December 2011

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

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.]

Wersi Direct Press Release, April 2012

The latest information about Wersi Products can be found in this Press Release, downloadable as a pdf file by clicking on the title above. With this latest press release issued by Wersi Direct, we can now all be reassured that the existing range of instruments is here to stay and will continue to be developed.

At WersiClub, both Ken and I have modified our sites recently. In order to avoid speculation in advance of official press releases we shall not, in future, be publishing any comments from Members. This will not affect in any way our continued provision of all the latest Wersi information we receive plus any articles or ideas from Members which provide further support for all Wersi owners seeking to be able to use all the facilities of their instruments to the full. Therefore we encourage you to continue to contact us as usual whenever you feel we may be able to help.

This Press Release also contains more details about Wersi Direct’s Open Day at Windsor on 22 July. If you’re reading this and do not have a Wersi instrument, this day would be the perfect opportunity to audition the range and find out all about them.

There is a poster about the Open Day on our Wersi Direct page.