The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07
ORGAN BUILDING.
THE DEBT OF GRATITUDE
 PLAYERS ONE

The Man who Makes Thetr Instru-
 msnss-Msny Advances in construc-
 tion, but Tone-PToducing Methods she Same as Three Centaries Ago.
 It was a wide. high-ceiIed room with lofty windows and so quiet an atmos- phere, almost churchly. that one in voluntarily lowered his voice. Occupy ing most of the available space in this large room were church organs, four of them, and two with their great pipes | towering to the very height of the chamber. Save for the details of en- closing woodwork, these two instru- ments were completed The others were frameh, odd-shaped. structures of most delicate finish, with long lines of glistening tin tubing, real tin, and bright as silver, row after row of lev CTS. and perhaps a pipe or two in place, others leaning in nearby corners await | ing their turn at being placed in the yellow framework.
 The organ builder whisked the cot- ton covering from the Keyboard of one of the practically completed instru- ments, and turning to one of the work men, said:
 Give us a puff of wind here, please. '' | The workman pushed back his cap and went behind the organ. Presently q gentle sigh seemed to escape the big organ, and the tell-tale wind dial above the manuals began to revolve. In the dimness of a rear recess, through a lat tice of pipes, tubes, bars and levers, the workman could be seen bending for ward and backward as he turned the huge bellows wheel.
 With something of pleased pride the organ builder tiecked a few specks from the keys of the instrument before him and said:
 Everyone is thinking now of Easter music, and I understand that the ser Ivices in the churches this year are to be even more elaborate than last year But do you ynow, as much as people Hove the Easter music. I think they al- lmost overlook one of the chief factors lin it, the organ. I say that because Tn an organ builder, know what ar organ means, and while do not in the least lack appreciation of music, when hear pipe speak I know just what 6 wonderful piece of mechanism has beer set in motion to give that pipe voice l Now, most people say, He's a wonder. full organist, when they hear some ont play with runs and trills and elaborate pedal execution. They seem to lost sight entirely of the superb mechanical or pneumatic contrivance before whicf the organist sits
 Once or twice the man at the vince had paused, but the builder seemed to recall him to his work by touching one of the keys and thus drawing upon the air supply. Just as hssfinished, he drew out stop and depressed the lowest brass pedal. Tn an instant all the ail tin the spacious loft was set aquiver The vibrations were so slow as to admit I almost counting them.
 You don't hear that half so much as you feel it." the builder said That's Ia thirty-two-foot pipe; see where il tgoes, away up there to the ceiling. You could fill cathedral with that sound Do you feel how it seems to beat in your body, not exactly in your ears, nor in your throat, nor yet in your chest?"
 Then he lifted his foot suddenly, and in great wave the noises of the street the trolley ears the wagons, the hu- man sounds surged in through the windows. It seemed that they had been held in cheek there by the powerful beating of the bass, and it must be said that in returning they brought a sense of relief from the dAep futtarine If the thirty-two-foot pipe, which had appa- rently come from nowhere, and yet was sounding on every side.