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> From: James H. H. Lampert <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: wind pressures after turning off organs
> Date: Thursday, September 04, 1997 2:57 AM
>
> SNIP
>
> I've seen (and heard, when pedal stops were drawn) people do that in a
> music shop I frequent, but I've always (well, at least since I started
> dabbling with sampling organs in said music shop) sat down well clear of
> the pedalboard, and swung my legs into position. Seems less likely to
> produce embarrassing noises ;-) I did read somewhere, though, about a
> choirboy who was a bit of a prankster, and a rotund organist whose belly
> tended to hit the keys of the positive division while he was sliding into
> position. It seems the organ in question had electric stop action, and
the
> stops could be drawn just far enough to close the contacts, without
making
> it obvious that the stop was drawn. So this prankster drew (I think it
was)
> a high-pitched prestant before the organist took his seat, and when he
did,
> he did so to a cascading glissando down the upper three octaves of that
one
> stop.  :-)
>
> By the way, if anybody else knows of this incident, in more detail, let
me
> know; I can't recall precisely *where* I read it!
>
> James H. H. Lampert
 
This incident appears in a footnote on page 50 of Peter Hurford's book
'Making music on the Organ' - is this where you read it ?
 
 
Martin Robinson