A "misleading" headline...

[KB7DQH]

Kensington church to show off new pipes, hoping organ makes a splash

http://www.gazette.net/article/20111026/NEWS/710269571/1007/kensington-church-to-show-off-new-pipes-hoping-organ-makes-a-splash&template=gazette

So here I am, thinking as the page loads... Hooray! Another new pipe organ... Then I read on...

A Kensington church is hoping to find a place on the musical map among Washington, D.C.-area churches when it unveils a new, state-of-the-art organ played by some of the area's most renowned users of the instrument.

Christ Episcopal Church in Kensington is hosting a service to celebrate the installation of a new 74-stop, three-manual console organ at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Church organist and choirmaster at Christ Episcopal, James Robert Catlette, said he is proud to claim that the sounds of the new digital organ rivals some of the more famous in the area, notably the Aeolian Skinner — a Boston-based manufacturer of pipe organs founded more than 100 years ago — located in National Presbyterian Church, considered among the best.

"[The organ at Christ Church in Kensington] growls, it roars, and it has real soft tones as well," he said. "...It is a world class instrument."

The church purchased the $300,000 instrument, built by the Pennsylvania-based Allen Organ Company, through donations by parishioners.

On Sunday, the service will include a performance by Kyle Babin, organist at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church and winner of this year's International Organist Competition held by St. Albans' Church of England; Albert Russell, organist at St. John's Church in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., and singer Patricia Fanara Wolfe, who sang at former president John F. Kennedy's funeral.

This event is free and open to the public. The church is located at 4001 Franklin St., Kensington.

The service is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.

For more information visit www.ccpk.org.

Methinks that for $300,000 they could have rehoused a redundant pipe instrument of similar specification :o :'(

One hopes the toaster will lead one day to the installation of a proper instrument... 

Eric
KB7DQH

[Jonathan Lane]

More likely, that in fifteen years time they will be looking to replace it with another electronic, however, we can all hope!

Jonathan