This is the story of a boy who loved pipe organs - "the sound of the soul."
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.
Dear 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.
Read more...Dear Sirs: Re. # 301, Grace Church, Winnipeg, 1907
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.
Specifications 1907
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Specification for Grace Church (from Casavant documentation) Opus #301 (renamed in 1917 to Opus #696) transcribed directly from their documents. (Note: There are 2 No. 25's on the original, it is not a transcription error) Compass of Manuals C C to C 61 keys
CHOIR ORGAN (in a Swell box)
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