>>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