July 2017
Helping Students Choose Fingerings III
I continue here the discussion of whether it is better to let students work out their own fingerings or to provide them fingerings to learn. In the former case they “learn by doing.” In the latter…
On the road again . . .
What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
—You get your dog back, you get your truck back, you get your wife back . . .
I worked in the shop of Angerstein & Associates in Stoughton, Massachusetts,…
By Larry Palmer
Celebrating Scott Ross
The Diapason for October 1971 (62nd year, number 11, whole number 743) featured a non-organ event on the front page for the first time in the magazine’s venerable history. Under a bold headline…
This article is a continuation of a feature in the August 2015 and June 2016 issues of The Diapason. This essay was delivered as a lecture for the Midwinter Pipe Organ Conclave on January 19, 2015, in La Grange, Illinois. The research for…
Preface
The 1863 E. & G. G. Hook organ, Opus 322, is not only one of the best preserved of the earlier instruments of that firm, it had the good fortune to be placed in the superlative acoustics of the Church of the Immaculate…
Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Paterson, New Jersey
Cathedral of Ss. Simon and Jude, Phoenix, Arizona
From the Builder
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.
—Daniel Burnham
As organbuilders, we are uniquely…
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