February 2007
C. B. Fisk, Inc., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Opus 124
Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia
The new organ at Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia, is Opus 124 of the Fisk firm: two manuals, 38 ranks housed in a mahogany case.…
Key for the cover illustration
1. Original factory building, 158 Woodland Street. Occupied from 1899–1937.
2. Opus 2, Sweetest Heart of Mary Church, Detroit, 2 manuals, 20 stops. Still in regular service.
3. Opus 500, Panama-Pacific…
The 2006 EROI Festival was presented by the Eastman School of Music and the Westfield Center October 12–15. The topic was “Aspects of American Organ Building in the 20th Century with emphasis on E. M. Skinner and John Brombaugh.”
The…
Location, location, location
Near where I live there’s a long hill with a sweeping curve on a two-lane U.S. highway. It’s often snow-covered, or worse, covered with black ice, that spookiest of road conditions where a sheet of invisible…
Trinity Episcopal Church
205 East Montezuma, Houghton, MI 49931; 906/482-2010.
Austin, 1913, 3M, 26 ranks; new console, 1958; rebuilt with new console, 1976; rebuilt, Roscoe Wheeler, Iron Mountain, MI, 1987; repaired, including…
Introduction
The Keweenaw Peninsula, the northernmost part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the United States. The land was mined by prehistoric miners, starting in 3,…
Whereas Das Orgelbüchlein means “The Little Book for Organ,” Das Orgeleinbuch is “The Book for a Little Organ.” As much as I love a four-manual E. M. Skinner, I am equally thrilled when I play historic, one-manual organs in Europe.…
James Raymond Garner (1951– 2006) died on October 31, 2006 of heart failure while at home on his ship, the Sea Wave. An accomplished concert organist, organbuilder and church musician, he was also at various times a computer retailer,…
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