In this issue:
"Bach Invention"
A poem by Jane Tyson Clement for your holiday enjoyment!
If I could live as finished as this phrase,
no note too strong; each cadence purposed, clear,
the logic of the changing harmony
building and breaking to a major chord
strangely at home within a minor web
of music; if I could define my end,
from the beginning measures trace my course,
I might be old and prudent, shown by laws
how to devise a pattern for my days
and still be free, unhampered, yet refined.
He sat before the keys and turned the notes
into a fabric of design and peace;
here are the notes, the keys, my fingers free
to run them through their course, and here my mind
seeing his wisdom work within the chords,
finding his knowledge in the finished line.
I would be wise if such restraint were mine.
Reprinted with permission from www.bruderhof.com
First published in "No One Can Stem the Tide: Selected Poems, 1931-1991" by Jane Tyson Clement. (c) 2000 The Bruderhof Foundation
David Petty, past dean of the Eugene Chapter, and a former employee of John Brombaugh, has an 1895 Farrand & Votey pipe organ available. It has been carefully dismantled and is ready for pickup.
The key action is pneumatic. The windchest has ventil stop action, the couplers are mechanical. I looked it over yesterday and it is in remarkably good condition. It is a very simple pneumatic action which would be quite easy to maintain. It was all playing when dismantled, although it should be releathered before reassembly.
The metal pipes are cone tuned, and are in very good condition.
Casework is quarter-sawn oak. The facade pipes (dummies) are beautifully stenciled.
Reservoir is double rise. No blower included.
GREAT ORGAN (58 notes) 8' Open Diapason 8' Melodia 8' Dulciana SWELL ORGAN (58 notes) 8' Stop't Diapason 8' Salicional 8' Viole Dolce (added by Schoenstein) 4' Flute PEDAL ORGAN (27 notes) 16' Bourdon Tremulant COUPLERS Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Swell to Great Swell to Great Super DIMENSIONS 88" wide 90" deep (105" deep with pedals) 120" tall less pendant 144" tall with pendant
Presently located in Eugene Oregon
$12,000
Photos are available at http://www.fandv.hochhalter.com
Please contact David Petty directly at: jbrownanddpetty@worldnet.att.net
Told you NOT to read it!"Chopin?" Make out your "Liszt" early before "Debussy" season, when you have time to check out "Verdi" good bargains are, can still get gifts "Faure" good price, not have to "Handel" large crowds and have time to give "Bach" things you decide you don't want.
Pipe up with your thoughts.
The "wise gargoyle" me fecit, mmiii. 