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Player Organ Recordings
By Dave Krall

In response to Bruce Clark's inquiry regarding hand played player
organ recordings, Nelson Barden of Boston produced several cassettes
some years back of Edwin H. Lemare playing on a large Boston-area
Welte church organ he restored.

Nelson found and connected a roll changer to the instrument for
purposes of the recordings and the organ sounded absolutely beautiful.
A wonderful example of a romantic orchestral organ.  Call Nelson at
617-964-0336 and tell him Dave Krall referred you.

By the way, even though it's not player related, I have a copy of
a video from CFCN Television, Calgary, Alberta entitled "Pipe Dreams
Opus 3623".  It is the story of a (then) new Casavant organ built for
the Calgary Center for Performing Arts.  It includes some history of
the organ including photos and narration of some mechanical instru-
ments, goes onto a little on theatre organs and then shows construction
at Casavant and installation in Calgary.  Extremely well done and I
will be happy to loan it out to anyone interested in viewing it.  Of
course you have to speak Canadian to understand it, eh.

Dave Krall

 [ Our greetings to Nelson Barden, too -- the "Barden & Clark
 [ interviews"  have been a big help in researching Ampico history
 [ and technology.  -- Robbie


(Message sent Fri 16 Jan 1998, 19:05:19 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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