Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 1999/04

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Materials when decoupled from the performer
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:11:11 -0400

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 11:52 PM 4/4/99 -0500, Ed Lacy wrote:
> >On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> >
> >> And, oddly enough, the ranks of pipes that are made of wood on the
> >> lower notes switch to metal on the higher notes.
> >
> >Not on every organ. My wife is an organist, and I have become her
> >emergency tuner. I would say that in most of the organs I have seen there
> >are ranks in which all the pipes are wood.
> >
> Probably either a classier organ than I helped tune, or those were the
> 16-foot stops. Once the pipes are getting down to pencil size, aren't they
> generally metal?

I'll have to go take another look to be sure. I'll get back to you.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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