Christ Church Episcopal pulls out all the stops

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Uploaded by on Feb 24, 2009

The Christ Church Episcopal in Quincy may resurrect its 1897 pipe organ, with the help of two groups dedicated to keeping the king of instruments alive and well for worship services throughout New England. Read the full story at http://www.patriotledger.com

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  • It's not the pipe organs fading out, it is difficult to find people that can play them properly. In other words, not just keyboard players using the keyboards only, but using the pedals and knowing how to set the stops to get the organs best sound for whatever is being played. No organists--no pipe organs being played.

  • It's good to see a non-organ builder have a positive attitude towards preserving their heritage. Rev Brown has gotten good advice and is intent on following it. At the end, it sounds like he says that pipe organs have been :"fading out." Not sure what he meant by that ... maybe something like "old age comes to us all."

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  • It's nice to hear about all of this, but do you have a recording on YouTube of the organ being PLAYED?

  • This is useless.........the organ itself is not heard !!

  • There are organists. I'm one of them. But there's a problem that churches that don't have an organist can't (or won't) spend the money to pay one, and churches that can and will pay an organist already have one. It's difficult. You have congregations that will say, "Well, Sally plays the piano and she'll play our old organ for free." Every time a church decides that, there's one less position for an organist.

  • Bravo & Kudos. By ALL means...restore your 19th cent. gem. It will serve you MUCh longer than the electronic counterfeit. It's infintely renewable. And the fidelity of tone can never be fully met by any source of electronic tone generation. I did my apprenticeship with the Andover Organ Co. in Methuen...and I miss those wonderful 19th cent. American trackers. You have a true GEM. Polish it and enjoy it. I would bet anything I have that you'll never regret it!

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