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British-American architect, decorator, organ builder (1838-1925)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-11-03 14:49:07
Harpsichords and Organs at an Exhibition
[…] children’s services in Lincoln. It had a heavy action, was very hard to play. You practically had to stand on the pedal notes to get them to play. But I could feel the music happening under my fingers, in a way I couldn’t with an electric action organ. I became interested in the organ as an instrument and I wanted to know how it worked. I went out an ordered a copy of Audsley [George Ashdown Audsley’s “The Art of Organ Building], which was very expensive, something like $60 at the time. And I started looking inside organs when I was there to play them. There was a little Hook organ down the street from the Hutchings in Lincoln, I used to play that too. One night, there was a pipe in the Oboe stop that wouldn’t play. It was about 9 PM, and by about 2 AM, the pipe […]
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