Agnes Armstrong writes:

        > God preserve us from inventors who don't play the organs
        they engineer!!!

I hope I'm not betraying any confidences here, but Hans Hell mentioned to me just before Felix's recital at Irvine Hall that Felix would have preferred the crescendo pedal to add some mixtures earlier and some reeds later for the Reger B-A-C-H piece (the only time he used it as far as I can recall) but he didn't have time to reset it.  Hans also suggested that controlling the memory levels of the combination action in the new console was distressingly cumbersome and error-prone, requiring a separate "save" button (about the size of a pinhead it is, too) to be pressed before every change (even if one was just using the combinations rather than setting them).   A nice feature of this system is that one can save settings to, and restore them from, a floppy disk, adding infinity to the already extremely capacious number of levels in the organ.  It was installed because at least one organist does admire this specific system, but it does appear from its inconveniences that we may have reached the point where, in his words, "sometimes less is more."

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