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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Recent Revolution in
Organ Building, by George Laing Miller
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Title: The Recent Revolution in Organ Building
Being an Account of Modern Developments
Author: George Laing Miller
Release Date: April 22, 2007 [eBook #21204]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN
ORGAN BUILDING***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
Transcriber's note:
This book contains a number of references to organ notes in form "c3", where the "3"
is superscripted.
The Recent Revolution
in Organ Building
Being an Account of Modern Developments
By
GEORGE LAING MILLER

Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Eng.; First Mus. Bac., Dunelm.; Organist of Christ Church, Pelham Manor, N. Y.; late of All Angels', New York; St. Clement's, Philadelphia, and Wallasey Parish Church, England

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK
THE CHARLES FRANCIS PRESS
1913

Copyright, 1909, 1913, by
GEORGE L. MILLER
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
Reprinted by the Vestal Press, Vestal, N. Y. 13860
1000 copies, 1969
Second Reprinting, April 1971, 1000 copies
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in the field of piano and organ literature

FOREWORD

Some years ago the elders and deacons of a Scotch church were assembled in solemn conclave to discuss the prospective installation of a pipe organ. The table was piled high with plans and specifications and discussion ran rife as to whether they should have a two-manual or a three-manual instrument\u2014a Great and Swell or a Great, Swell, and Choir organ. At last Deacon MacNab, the church treasurer and a personage of importance, got a chance to speak.

"Mr. Chairman," said he, "I don't see why we should have a Great, a Swell, and a Choir
organ. I think that one organ is quite enough."

Now, Deacon MacNab was a master tailor, and a good one at that; so the musical man who was pushing the thing through appealed to his professional instincts in explaining the situation by saying:

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