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Copyright © 1975 by The American Guild of Organists Reprinted by permission of The American Organist Magazine HERE IN THESE PAGES I would like to stir discussion of a voicing question that has troubled American organ building for 25 years. How narrow should we be making our flues? (Remember, the flue, or windway, is the […]

Papers and proceedings of the Symposium held at McGill University, May 26-28 1981 on the occasion of the completion of the French Classic organ by Helmut Wolff & Associés Limitée © McGill University, reprinted from L’Orgue à notre Époque IT’S A CURIOUS TURN OF FATE that brings scholarly interest in the organ to its present

Copyright 1978 by The American Guild of Organists Reprinted by permission of The American Organist Magazine As I write this, the price of tin hovers around six dollars per pound. Five years ago it was less than three dollars. For organ builders, most of whom tend to feel that their instruments are already too expensive,

Originally printed in THE DIAPASON, September, 1969, pages 18-19. Copyright THE DIAPASON. Reprinted with permission. THE ORGAN IS NOTHING BUT A MACHINE, whose machine-made sounds will always be without interest unless they can appear to be coming from a living organism. The organ has to seem to be alive. A motorcar is the same. Bucket

Lecture given at the dedication of the Flentrop Organ, Duke University, November 1976 SOMEDAY People Will realize that the organ is a keyboard instrument and not just a big vat of sound.” These words were from 1954. They were spoken by Walter Holtkamp, Senior, a man who labored hard to make them come true. Most

reprinted with permission from Faith and Form Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture AXIOM: PLACEMENT is the most important of the factors which determine the effectiveness of an organ. That is to say, the way in which the pipes of an organ are arranged among themselves and then situated within a