Robert Fielding, the Salisbury Diocesan church music adviser, says the organ has "fallen out of favour" because it is difficult to learn and musicians cannot practise at home.

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Pupils would be read poems by their teachers, learn simple poems by heart and practise recitals from the age of five.

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