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Submitted by
Name: Garry Hughes
From: Brisbane Australia

Comments:
Hello Ian. Thank you for all the work you have put into this site. I have found it a valuable resource for directing our band to to listen to pieces we are about to practice. It is extremely helpful when bandsmen are away, they can ‘catch up’ with the listening.

Added: October 14, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Ian Rabjohns
From: Pant-Yr-Awel Bridgend Mid Glamorgan Wales

Comments:
Dear Ian. It was fantastic to find your web site and to hear those superb Joystrings tracks such as ‘All Alone’, ‘Now I Know’, ‘When Jesus Comes to You’, ‘Joshua’ etc. Some of the Christmas Joystring’s tracks I’d never heard before, even though I am a massive Joystrings fan. I was born the year the Joystrings started, 1963. I have recently had Bill Davidson as a ‘friend’ on Facebook, and The Joystrings tribute page on Facebook, that I believe Bill updates. It has been wonderful chatting to Bill on-line. He’s the Pastor of a church in the USA now. The release of the digitally remastered Joystrings tracks on ‘The Joystrings - Restrung’, released 2011, had me in raptures. To hear those tracks on CD format (and vastly improved sound) is fabulous. Thanks once again Ian, for giving me the chance to listen to some Joystrings tracks I hadn’t previously heard. God bless you Ian. With kindest regards from Ian Rabjohns.

Added: October 8, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Gary Craig
From: Nowra NSW Australia

Comments:
Blessed my socks off this sight I discovered today when looking for a lost piece of music. March ‘Joyous Gospel’ by ? do you know where it is? Noted my mate Ian from Tasmania has signed in. Thank you all for all the hard work of digitizing these wonderful albums.

Added: October 8, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Ian Ross
From: Launceston Tas. Australia

Comments:
I felt I should again say THANK YOU for all your work in developing and maintaining this fabulous musical resource. I drop in regularly to check on what is new, and am always blessed by the music, and the words that they bring back to mind. GOD BLESS

Added: September 29, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Ken Taylor
From: Derby England

Comments:
Ian, I have just been introduced to your website; it is fantastic. I never thought I would ever hear again some of this music from the past, many pieces of which I played over the 30 + years when a bandsman in Derby Central Band, England. It has been great to reminisce on those days and also go further back to when my father played his 78’s when I was a young boy. Thank you so much for bringing this wonderful collection of Salvation Army music together and making it available to everyone. I realise I may now be in danger of spending too many hours on your website but, I look forward to many more happy hours of listening.

Added: September 21, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Geoff Ingram
From: Stockton-on-Tees

Comments:
In answer to the two people asking for recordings of 1965 Centenary, all records produced are on this site. Geoff Ingram

Added: September 19, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Ian
From: Tasmania

Comments:
What an excellent historical collection of great SA music you have gathered for posterity. I also would love to see the 1965 Centenary Recordings on this site, if you can track them down

Added: September 17, 2011

Submitted by
Name: David Wardle
From: Auckland NZ

Comments:
I found this website a few days ago and I must say i was much blessed by listening to the various selections. I would dearly love to listen to a good selection of the 1965 Centenary Celebrations held in London from 25th June - 3rd July. The late Brig Owen Ojala had a good selection that I had listened to but he gave the library to another organisation about 30 years ago and I suspect that with all the changes in recording it has been disposed of. Yours in His Service, David

Added: September 15, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Steve Schaffner
From: Haddon Township New Jersey USA

Comments:
Thank you. I have been looking for the recording of ‘Tucker’ by Erik Leidzen for almost 30 years. I didn’t know whether Tucker was the name of the tune or the composer. This is a wonderful work for cornet solo, and Giles plays it so well. I wonder if the recording is a bit fast. Some of these old discs were not 78, but varied between 67 and 80. The music seems to be in G, but it is a very high G. Is it possible that the SA was using high pitch instruments in 1935? Thanks again.

Added: September 9, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Steve Barker
From: England

Comments:
Thank you so much for making my day.

Added: August 27, 2011