February 2001
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Charles M. Ruggles Pipe Organs
Conifer, Colorado
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
Lakewood, Ohio
The organ for Wright Chapel at Lakewood Presbyterian Church
is the third instrument to be completed in our Conifer, Colorado workshop, and…
As this issue was going to press, word was received of the death of Pierre Firmin-Didot on January 5 after a long illness with cancer. Mr. Firmin-Didot was a founder and long-time president of the Grand Prix de Chartres competition and…
The Bedient Pipe Organ Company celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special program on November 5, 2000 at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Omaha, Nebraska. An audience of approximately 600 attended a recital performed by George Ritchie and…
Chestnut roasters selling their aromatic wares on the avenues of Lisbon and the cobbled streets of Evora, as well as the slightly guttural sounds of Portuguese, spoken all around me, signaled decisively that I was not in Texas during the…
Back in the 19th century, two great scientific figures wrote books on the science of sound. The earlier was Hermann Helmholtz with his On the Sensations of Tone, 1863; the later was Lord Rayleigh in his The Theory of Sound, 1877. Both…
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