October 2006
David Petty & Associates, Eugene, Oregon
First United Methodist Church, Eugene, Oregon
The Petty portative is one of four virtually identical mechanical-action instruments made from the same plans. This instrument, designated 2b, is…
Bedient Pipe Organ Company, Roca, Nebraska
St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings, Nebraska, 1927. While Edwin Perkins was perfecting the final collection of ingredients that was to become “Kool-Aid,” a few blocks away on…
From Ochsenhausen, Biggs and company moved on to the jaw-dropper of all the Baroque places they would visit: Ottobeuren. Like a great white ship plowing across the sea of agriculture that surrounds it for miles, the Benedictine monastery…
This article was inspired by Ralph Kneeream’s elegant and moving tribute to Searle Wright in the November 2004 issue of The Diapason. Dr. Kneeream strongly encouraged me to memorialize my thoughts and impressions of Searle as a teacher to…
Despite the long and glorious history of outstanding organist-composers at l’Eglise de la Sainte Trinité in Paris, France, featuring such notables as Alexis Chauvet, Alexandre Guilmant, and Olivier Messiaen, another fine composer, Charles…
Acoustics: science or mystery?
Ten years ago the Organ Clearing House was involved in the relocation of an E. & G. G. Hook organ from Woburn, Massachusetts to Berlin, Germany. The Woburn Unitarian Church had a wood frame with plaster…
Jeffri W. Bantz, 52, died July 31 after a brief illness. A native of Marion, Indiana, he moved with his family to Florida in 1969 when his father, The Rev. Wayne Bantz, started First Methodist Church of Coral Springs. A graduate of…
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