Dear Ladies & Gentlemen:

The same instrument, substantially modified and revoiced somewhere in the 
late 1970s or early 1980s and then given a brand-new console around 1998, is 
still very much there - one of the truly-great organs of Canada 
(surprisingly French in sonority {in addition to the stop-list} even though 
it started out as a typical British-Romantic organ)!  [I recall having 
(unofficial) practise-privileges there when living in Toronto from 1989 
through 1991 (with the help of John Tuttle) and truly came to love the 
instrument, though in some ways the old console was superior (in spite of 
its mechanical age and shortcomings!) to the present one (some passages in 
Reger's music could be properly played that the new console doesn't provide 
for, alas...).  Mind you, a true AGO pedalboard plus multiple memories are 
very welcome with the new work...]

As to the pipes, I'd expect them to belong to that organ (95 ranks on 4 
manuals - the "Bombarde 8'" on the Solo/Bombarde manual is intended to 
revert back to its former identity as a "Tuba Mirabilis 8' with a chorus 
Trompette 8' taking its place to harmonize with the "Contre-Bombarde 16'" 
and Clairon 4' in that division, which means that the final total of ranks 
will be 96).  There was some water damage at a few times... 

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