Word: organic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Albert Parker Fitch '00, President of Andover Theological Seminary, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. The subject of his sermon will be "The Office of Music in Public Worship." The new organ will be used for the first time, and the choir, assisted by trumpets and trombones from the Pierian Sodality Orchestra, will render "Laudate Dominum," the anthem composed for the dedication of the Medical School...
...designing an organ careful consideration is necessary for the size, shape and physical conditions of the auditorium which it is to fill, and the particular place which it is to occupy. The tonal scale was fixed in accordance with these conditions, and the danger in such a large organ of making the tone oppressively heavy and overpowering successfully avoided. Yet the life, buoyancy and moving power of the mass of tone has been abundantly maintained. Those in charge of the work declare that the aim of furnishing the Chapel with an instrument worthy of its environment, broad in scope...
...perfected by Mr. Ernest M. Skinner, the builder. It affords an extraordinary command of the swell shades, giving no trace of sudden or erratic movement when the folds are opened. This swell engine is regarded by its inventor as the greatest single advance in the mechanism of the modern organ...
...action is electro-pneumatic, an extremely delicate one capable of developing great speed. Indeed, the mechanism of the finest grand piano is far slower and less responsive than that of this type of organ...
...better characteristics of the organs of an earlier time have been retained and combined with the more distinctive qualities of the modern organ. This instrument of 25 stops is more varied in its resources than one of 50 stops built on the plan of twenty years ago. The stops of the modern organ combine so much more beautifully that they are much richer in effect, and more varied in their range of expression