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The 1907 specifications are from the archives of Casavant Freres, the 1960 specs from a letter to Stuart Kennedy in Calgary, the 1964 specs from a letter to Father Basil, and the 2000 specs are from the estate evaluation done by Grant Smalley, Organbuilder, of Victoria, BC. The specifications "2000 Complete" are with notes by Douglas Adams on the condition of the instrument. More from Mr. Adams here. Changes were hashed out over the years in the correspondences with Stuart Kennedy in Calgary. Note that not all ranks are operational in the final specs as they were still in the planning stages, although the stops are installed.
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This is the story of a boy who loved pipe organs - "the sound of the soul."
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One day the boy saw an article and a picture of a pipe organ built by the students in the technical shop of a school in England. They used a book called "How to Build a Two Manual Pipe Organ" by H.F. Milne. -
Letter from F.A. Anderson
Winnipeg January 31, 1961Dear Stuart,
A few evenings ago, a scotchman went across the TV screen with his bagpipes and I thought of you and the times that you used to do the same in the old Grace church when the organ was being taken down.
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Casavant Freres Ltd.,St. Hyacinthe, P.Q.
Dear Sirs: Re. # 301, Grace Church, Winnipeg, 1907
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This instrument became my property in 1955, and was erected in a music room built for it on my farm home in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, in 1963. In 1979 I moved it to a specially built room added to my house in Victoria, where it is in almost daily use by students and others.

