What is a "Skinner sound"; no one sound covers all the period's of the firm's organ building. And, that firm has been out
of business for so long that you are better to simply forget them. Many...

This work is a part of the Gloria in de Grigny's Premier Livre d'Orgue. Not sheet music, exactly and it's only available in
the out-of-print French organ music series. Who is your canine friend? ...

The German language is constructed so that "H" is b-natural.

From a reliable source I have learned that CC did NOT break the Riverside Crescendo Pedal. Her concert
manager did on many occasions, she would be responsible for the repair to the console.

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Yes, I suppose Ruth Phelps went over to Germany to study with him.

Did German organist, Heitmann, ever teach in America?

Jonathan Ryan certainly belongs in this list. I heard at the recent OHS convention and his performance was one of the
very best at that event. He's not out to just "wow the public", as some others...

Claire was supposed to have broken Riverside's crescendo pedal during a recital, presumably in the
late 1950's to about the end of the 60's. I've never seen a date mentioned in the context of that...

In most cases, nothing can be done. So many these days look at church at just another social time
and they see nothing wrong with talking during the Prelude and engaging in some very loud...

The best of the books is "The Organ - its Evolution, Use, History" by William L. Sumner. I once had the 1962 edition
and it eventually wore out. Some old bookstores may have a copy of this edition...

Yes, my post is accurate and the organist there, Rudy deVos, is more than willing to accommodate visitors to the organ.
Lets hope that those who ask to play there for an hour can really play and are...

Visitors to the Bay Area should try to arrange a visit to Oakland's quite new Cathedral to see and hear
the Letourneau organ.

Contact Rudy de Vos at rdevos@oakdiocese.org and he will arrange time...

Did anyone play bridge with CC when she lived in Whittier and Claremont?

Have the fundamental be the 16' Diapason and the fifth play from the 16' Bourdon. That way the fifth is softer and
of a different tone quality.

To improvise correctly one must have theory fully mastered so one can move from chord to another in the right way
and not just make a mess of things. Too many organists have mastered the keyboard...

I'd suggest Healey Willan's 36 Short Hymn Tune Preludes. Some of them can be used as Postludes. C. F. Peters
used to publish this; don't know if they still do.

Have you suggested that they get married in a field or non-sacred place? "Jolly" "groovy" are not words one would
associate with great music.

Jonathan, of the Chicago area, is worth traveling to hear. Convention (Organ Historical Society) attendees
were treated to a very fine recital in Chicago's St. Chrysostom's Church on Sunday, July...

The five volumes you've listed are adequate. You don't need a "Chord Study Book". In fact, there is no such thing.

Have you read what Leopold Stokowski and Walter Damrosch said about "music is a universal language"? Men
and instrument size? Oy, we're getting into an area best avoided.

Yes, VF is best forgotten and relegated to the ash heap of history. He was a very good example of what can happen
to an organist who has no taste - direction, anything.

The topic was not about performances. Biggs's earlier recordings were on EP organs. I was objecting to his public
comments and TV appearances in which he said that " a pipe in the open is worth...

Not at all! Biggs's Bach was very mundane and not at all stylish. EPB is frankly best forgotten.

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Forget both Biggs and Fox. Both are long-dead and best forgotten. ...

I was thinking, specifically, of E. Power Biggs. Certainly Fesperman might have been another of these "tracker backers"
who mis-stated things and led churches astray and into buying organs that...

Who was the late organist who championed tracker organs and to make his case made outright
mis-statements about electro-pneumatic organs and pipes enclosed in Swell boxes?