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David L. Molvik wrote:
> 9/3/04 4:50:18 PM, Stan Krider <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>....er, folks,
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>>I think I'd better quit while I am this close behind! I thought I heard that
>>there were only two sanctuaries with two types, classical and romantic, of
>>pipe organs this size within their walls. Am I wrong on this point?
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>>Apparently, I'd better go back to lurking for a while.
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> No, you don't have to do that. Haven't we all repeated things that we THOUGHT were
> accurate but turned out otherwise?
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> In case this would create a thread of interest, I could mention several examples locally here.
Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire, England has three pipe organs.
The Milton organ - built as one manual with eight stops by Robert Dallam
for Magdalen College chapel in 1631. Now has four manuals, a pedal
department and 68 stops.
The Grove organ - four manuals & pedal department. Built by Michell &
Thynne for the Inventions Exhibition of 1885. Presented to the Abbey by
Rev CW Grove in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
The chamber organ - One manual, octave of pedal pull-downs. Built by
Thomas Elliot in 1813. Presented to the Abbey in 1918 by Colonel HN Thoyts.
See the abbey website at
<http://www.tewkesburyabbey.org.uk/msg18.htm>
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney, UK
http://www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
"You can tell what God thinks about money by looking at the people He
gives it to."
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