January 1999
Introduction
My presentation, "The Economics of Pipe Organ Building: It's Time to Tell The Story," is the viewpoint of an economist, not a builder or a musician. It reflects my fervent conviction that organbuilders must be aware of the…
Laeta Wentworth Guerra died at the age of 69 on September 20 in her home near Daytona, Florida. She was born there in 1930 and studied organ with Arthur Poister at Syracuse University and Robert Baker at Union Theological Seminary in New…
From the builder
Hendrickson Organ Company, St. Peter, Minnesota, has built a
new organ for Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, Minnesota. Opus 92 is a
4-manual, 70-rank tracker action instrument installed in a white colonial-revival style…
In his famous treatise on continuo playing,1 Francesco Gasparini gives a table of twenty-one keys which the student could expect to encounter. The absence of certain keys proves that the contents of the table are determined by the tuning…
In his famous treatise on continuo playing,1 Francesco Gasparini gives a table of twenty-one keys which the student could expect to encounter. The absence of certain keys proves that the contents of the table are determined by the tuning…
News from abroad
* The future of Ghent's historic bell Klokke Roeland, which was cast in 1660 and cracked in 1914, is uncertain. Roeland is not included in the initial sketches by Spanish architect Jordi Farrando who was commissioned by…
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