Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University, accepted the $109,000 instrument--the largest organ of its kind constructed by an American in this century--from builder Charles B. Fisk '49. Done in pseudo-Baroque style to harmonize with Appleton Chapel, the choir section of the Church, the organ's gilded carvings were executed by Rockport artist Roger H. Martin...
...organ is one one-third the size of the instrument it replaces, but its better placing makes it more effective, according to Ferris. The old organ, built in 1932 as a memorial to Albert Keep Isham '15, was "not particularly distinguished, badly placed, and of a type that is costly to maintain," Ferris said. Like most American organs of the past fifty years, it was electro-pneumatic--key action was electrically controlled...
...Fisk organ, however, the keys make direct physical contact with the pipes. This mechanical action allows the organist greater control over a more brilliantly colored sound. With its 48 stops--knobs pulled to activate one or more ranks of pipes--and 75 ranks, the instrument "spoils you for playing any other," Ferris said...
...Exactly. Somehow, I am informed, he's latched on to the story of our rummy encounter with Waterbury, the blackmailing theatrical agent, and his niece Trixie. Ah, Trixie. My first sight of her was like a blow from a blunt instrument. You remember how buxom she was in every direction...
...genuinely excited by fellow scholars, Harvard undergraduates, and his friends, such as Bundy, despite his stance on the war, and French sociologist Raymond Aron ("the two most brilliant men I know"). He likes music, though he can't make any. "I don't see why I should play an instrument badly when I can listen to someone else do it well, so I have a very good record collection...