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Unknown Fair Organs & Tunes on Old Recordings
By Mike Knudsen

[ Andrew Barrett wrote in 040918 MMDigest:


>> I found it interesting that the organ I had thought was Trudy is now
>> thought to be a 70-keyless Wellershaus, as the tonal quality of this
>> organ (in my opinion) is nothing like the 84-keyless Wellershaus at
>> Thursford; compared to the latter the former (to me) sounds home-made!
>> Perhaps it was simply on poor shape when recorded.


If an organ sounded "home made" or in poor shape or even out of tune
or unevenly voiced, then it certainly was not David Wasson's "Trudy,"
whose tone and clean articulation put most factory organs to shame,
old or new.  Unless Trudy was recorded at a very early stage of her
evolution.

Mike Knudsen


(Message sent Tue 21 Sep 2004, 01:01:07 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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