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    British Hymnal Goes Digital

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    My question… will anyone shuck out the $79 a year to use this, especially in largely unchurched Britain?  I don’t think it would be a hit here in the states… but I could be wrong.

    Would you pay $79 a year for the privilege of having hymns available on your desktop on demand?

    Just wondering…

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    For just 40 pounds ($79 US) per year, you can now download words, sheet music, and accompaniment tracks to more than 1800 hymns in the new Mission Praise Hymnal. You can also create playlists for their own orders of service which can be saved and shared with others online. The Hymnal is published in the UK by Harper Collins...

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    1. Eric on Thu, January 17, 2008

      I probably wouldn’t pay for the product but I understand their market.  I’m sure there are a lot of small parish churches that have no musicians aside from Auntie Bess on the piano or parish organ.  I would imagine that many of these churches have a solid majority of senior members.  In such a case, having a resource for less than £1 a week that can help the minister choose songs and provide accompaniments is a reasonable cost.

    2. John G on Thu, January 17, 2008

      I think you might have misinterpreted the target market for this product. Mission Praise offers a church’s music ministry access to downloadable sheet music, words and midi files for an extensive range of hymns, carols and contemporary worship songs. It doesn’t include all of the very latest, but it does include quite a number of songs by Hillsong authors and authors such as Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin. If you’re running a church’s music ministry and have to transpose songs into different keys for different instruments, this sort of resource can give you a good head start. It’s also much easier to have the music on sheets, rather than in books.

    3. Jan on Sat, January 19, 2008

      I would.  We have zero musicians.  Some really really good vocalists, but no musicians.  So, for the smaller ministry I think this would be very helpful, especially if it weren’t just hymns, though a good contemporary hymn arrangement is wonderful at times.

    4. Steve on Thu, January 24, 2008

      I would.  I’m a church musician and my church pays more than that to CCLI and OneLicense.net to be able to use different music than is in our hymnal.  Compared with completely replacing every hymnal in a church, this is a very cost effective method.  And the fact is every hymnal has some weakness that you can supplement this way.

    5. Ian on Wed, January 30, 2008

      For me personally, Mission Praise has always had it’s faults like taking well known Hymns and changing words to try and be more contemporary, often the musical arrangements aren’t that great either, BUT you have to give them credit in addressing a very real need where people want to hold a worship service and they have literally no musicians.


      Of course (and this may shock some US Churches especially) it is not essential to have a 20 piece band and mega PA to worship, in fact dare I go so far as to say that in my experience, it does Churches good to “come back to the heart of worship” once in a while with acapella or one guitar!


      Well done Mission Praise - thank you Billy Graham after all it was your visit to the UK that started this book.

    6. Jen kibby on Sat, April 05, 2008

      79 dollars come on, nothing for free anymore.

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