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 From: ManderUSA@aol.com (Malcolm Wechsler)
 To: rolls@foxtail.com
 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:38:30 -0400 (EDT)

In MMDigest 970701 Bruce Clark wrote:

> No one seemed to know what to do with the organ until one day at 2
> PM it was decided that the organ was to be discarded as junk!  In came
> men with axes and pry bars, and in a short time the organ was tossed
> out in the alley as trash, many students taking pipes as a souvenir.
> This was done in the name of progress to make room for new air
> conditioning units.

Thanks for sharing this horror story.  Someone passed it on to the
PipOrg-L.  Our big new organ at St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan followed
a huge Rodgers "8-slice toaster" (= two four-manual consoles!) which
lasted about 30 years.  It followed a large Hook & Hastings organ,
probably very fine.

The parish priest 30 years ago decided to have the latest of modern
technology, and was so impatient to get the old organ out, that he had
people come in and break it up and cart it out to the street for a
garbage disposal company to take away.  Another "makes the blood boil"
story.

Cheers,

Malcolm Wechsler, N. P. Mander, Ltd. - U. S. A.
http://www.mander-organs.com