SISTERS OF TRANSISTORS: At The Ferranti Institute (This Is Music Ltd)

themilkman on Nov 18th 2009 10:26 pm

Sisters Of Transistors: At The Ferranti Institute

SISTERS OF TRANSISTORS
At The Ferranti Institute
THISIM018
This Is Music Ltd 2009
11 Tracks. 45mins07secs

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The Sisters Of Transistors are something of an oddity. Like an alternative version of the WI, they meet regularly and partake in various activities, which can involve electronic seminars, soldering or choir practice, although they are in much more restricted number (four) than any WI committee. In the early nineties, Graham Massey stumbled upon a collection of Hammond organs and sheet music while setting up for a set with 808 State at a rave at Burton Wood Air Force Base, in Cheshire. A little further investigating revealed that the base played a considerable role in providing a platform for ladies organ quartets in the North East of England from the Second World War onward.

The Sisterhood was born from Massey’s interest in ladies organ quartets and through a research project at the Ferranti Institute and at his own South Manchester Museum Of Keyboard Technology, with the aim to emulate the work of one of the genre’s pioneers, Lillian Meyers. Continue Reading »

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