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When did a 102-year-old tracker get a crescendo pedal? I would suggest
asking the organ technician who maintains the instrument what to put on
the card, ie. the things that need to be returned to the 'off'
position. A mechanical swell box should be left open, of course, but
I've known a few situations where it was safer for the instrument to
leave it closed at certain times.

A card is a great idea, especially if it's something they have to
return perhaps with a signature on it, along with the key, with
check-offs of what they've done turning things on and off, including
lights, fans, locking doors, etc. Would definitely make most people
somewhat more accountable.

Kenneth L. Sybesma, CAGO
Choirmaster & Organist
Church of the Advent, Westbury NY

On 7 Sep 2004, at 12.56 AM, Lucy E. Carroll wrote:

>       My concerns are the use of the cresecendo pedal (on the left) as
> =
> an expression pedal, which it is not designed to do on a regular
> basis, =
> and thoughtlessly leaving things in the open (or in the case of the =
> swell shutters, closed) position. =20

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