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Re: Automatic Music List
By John Musselwhite

>>The strangest residential pipe organ I've seen was in Calgary
>where I found someone living in a conventional 3 bedroom bungalow
>with a 3 story basement housing a huge pipe organ under construction.
>The home was part of a subdivision constructed on the slope of a hill
>and his sewer line, being 3 story's deep, is connected to the sewer
>mains 2 blocks down the slope of the hill! The entire installation
>was an amazing engineering feat. I wonder if John Musselwhite in
>Calgary has any further knowledge of the state of this organ.......

I don't know... sorry. Perhaps someone in the Calgary Organ Society might though. Hopefully I'll be contacting them soon anyway so I'll ask. I would like to get an organ WWW page going for the Carthy and Christ Church organs.

The Glenbow Museum has an interesting automatic organ... it's actually a Tangley 43 portable air-powered calliope with a roll mechanism and tracker assembly in the back. I play a similar one (non-automatic) for the Calgary Stampede Park Parade. I've never heard the Glenbow's played though.

Does anyone know where I might get a repair manual for a Tangley 43?

>blow your hat off! The basement stairs were full of people just
>sitting there enjoying the thrill of being enveloped and
>surrounded by pipe organ music. Quite an experience.

I LOVE being in pipe chambers while an organ is being played! It's a fascinating experience!

>3/12 theatre pipe organ. A neat touch in this wonderful display
>is a model railway completely surrounding all 4 walls about 7 feet
>high, and threading through the pipe chamber of the organ. Every
>visit there is memorable!

Any pictures or that anywhere? I can well imagine it would be pretty cool!

John
John Musselwhite, RPT               Calgary, Alberta Canada
musselj@cadvision.com john.musselwhite@67.cambo.cuug.ab.ca

(Message sent Tue 18 Apr 1995, 19:05:49 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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