Music: Seated One Day...

Seated One Day ...

The American Guild of Organists, 6,000 strong and "absolutely nonsectarian," met in Manhattan last week. During the meeting outstanding members played in various churches and auditoriums, and the meeting as a whole learnedly considered its common instrument — one which offers perhaps more potential trouble than any other in existence.

No other instrument has such a range; the highest and lowest notes of the biggest organs nudge the limits of human audibility. No other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate...

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