The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15
ORGANS I'M AMERICA

loo.9oo communicates each. are az
Warn /, opposed tof 1t ever the scots
o. whistles" or the Pur,tans who scails
Cd IT the DEVILS bagpipe." and there
Gre #. =, many other sects which share these
van No n ney LOOK q,, upon the church or
a an destroyinK the true spirit Of wor.
snip among the people. they hold 10
" e,le Views .of The Puritans in the days
eatlied GM " u. who petitioned that "ail
NOS. grievously abused by the pIpinp
oL organs, the ringing or bells. the
e,s, s1se and IN th trow,ng Of chants from
such like offenses. which arc ~ shn nmu
nation to the Lord be put down. In
n n,,s connection ,n 1t is also interesting to
no. believe In church bells. Ain told,
..nere are In the United States ncrbuns
do Uop hdih,erents to those sects which
10 o rpa De h,,,,, IN bells and organs.
United States fine frst one ne Vas - ,na me
by John Clark In 1743 for the Episea,
~ shnrch at Salem. Mass. In 1906 ~.
large sr, sca ~ Ses s. building organs on
nc INDUSTRY has grown steadily. both
IN the manufacture or pipe organs and
n neea organs. There are about $40 pipe
sne unlted States. their total value be-
ing over $2,00000o. There are about
10000 reed organs manufactured ycnr
~. :, = a III a., dheir total value approximatos
leading organ manufacturing centres
OF the United States. sixty pipe organs.
with an average value Of more than
~ c, being turned out in a single
year. One OF the developments OF recent
years Is the self-playtng organ attach
inent. which is being widely used on
,e t;I .,l pipe organs. It Is claimed
! That there Is no effect I'm hand pIayin,,
an lu,
Dy playing attachment under expert
guidance. and that orchestral arrange
mehts 100 complex for one organist can
be executed with these attachments.
The American reed organ. with per-
haps single exception. is suction
instrument while the European reed
organ operates with air pressure.
Theodore Roosevelt. and himself a
bearer OF that name II was the ono
and was later installed in the Me-
chanics Building at Boston. Roosevelt,
the organ builder. was as dominant i
hgure in the organ-buildDg world in
In the political world In his day. And
TO the former Roosevelt many os ina
most nota bile strides IN the Improve
ment OF pipe organ construction ara
to he attributed.
Perhaps the organ with the most pa
thetic fate in the United States was
the ono bull; for the Boston. Music
Hall Walcker. the great German or
gan builder, was commissioned to con-
struct 1t. He agreed to make 1t the
most up-to-date musical instrument
then In existence binding himself 10
carry out the specifications, and tn
might come out while he was con-
structins IL. When II was completed.
the instrument was n revelation in the
wonders of It's tones. The London FIX
Ell s.... II u laS 49,
tai Palace Exhibition sought to arrange
terms to get IL for the season But
Y came straight to Boston. and was
installed and dedicated with an eclat
For years II did fine service, and no
sweeter music was to be heard any
where than that which poured forti,
from It's myriad metallic throats. But
given away, and at last accounts WAS
stored in, an Clubhouse in Boston
graveyard.
Tho evolution of The modern organ
the Romans had what Is known as
water organs. but the modern instru-
ment owes its origin 10 one Ctesibius.
a barber, of Alexandria. Egypt. His
trade was not so brisk as to occupy
all of his time. and he set to work
about 200 B. c. to think out. the de-
tails of what was destined to be the
forerunner of the organ He was suc-
cessful. but ii was not until $40 years
thereafter that an organ was placed
lin church. That those which We're
so placed were rather clumsy nay be
inferred from the fact that the one
used in Winchester Cathedral in the
tenth century had twenty six pairs of
bellows and 1t required seventy men to
supply the wind. 1t took about three
pounds of pressure to move a key in
those days. In the fourteenth century
some genius happened to think of
smaller key to be operated by the
finger which would allow, more than
tile single octave on the Keyboard and
touch. In the times before that. lit
was popular to speak of an organist
having played with a delicate flst..N
o-morrow--American Holidays.