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The thread above had been extended beyond the original issues of Mad Organist into extraneous directions derogatory to the late Maestro Questa which were felt by a member to extend the thread unnecessarily and, on account of this, the posting raising the extraneous issue and subsequent responses have been removed.


Members tempted to make derogatory comments might find http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,819.0.html of interest.



This thread continues from http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,476.0.html inspired by stories of him:

QuoteApocryphally he took his organ to a redundant church in the middle of a   wood by a lake to do a recording session. He was as obsessively   perfectionist about everything and he took great care in everything, the   quality of the equipment, the microphones etc . . .
The   recording session had a problem: the lake adjacent was home to frogs.   They croaked and croaked loudly. Of course this not only annoyed him but   ruined the recording. Apparently they croak particularly in spring to   attract mates. Accordingly, Giorgio went to the local chemist and   ordered a particularly large quantity of Potassium Bromide (reputedly used in tea for similar purposes by the British Army). Reputedly he   put it in the lake . . . and the frogs stopped croaking.

The   recording went well after that. Very well apparently . . . until the   very last note. Working late into the silence of the night he had not   banked on the final hazard - an owl hooted. Sadly on account of this he   destroyed the whole recording.


On another occasion, there is a   monastery near Genova where concerts are held in the summer, but it's   only accessible by boat . . . Giorgio was booked to play there and the   audience turned up . . . but there was a problem. Realising that his   precious organ would have to go on the boat, and that there was no other   way, he refused to allow the organ to be loaded onto the boat . . . in   case the boat was sunk by sharks.

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Dear Xxxxx

Those were the days of the generation of Italians who "did" national service and many an Italian musician of this generation will entertain over dinner with stories of his days as a carabinieri.


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The world has changed very fast . . . but Questa's music is immortal. So I have ordered the discs and will be thinking of the frogs and their wives wondering why their husbands weren't sexy that year.

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Isn't there an organist anywhere who isn't obsessive about the instrument?

All for the love of the organ . . . !

Best wishes

David P

The sad thing is that it's the pipework that persists and they have apparently been very badly advised to sell that off as that's the one thing that will be valuable in 40 years time for the rebuilding of a new organ. Wimborne Minster is the best example of the value of pipework, still using pipes nearly 400 years old . . .

This topic has been moved to Forum committee only.

http://www.organmatters.com/index.php?topic=812.0

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Hi!

Looking at forum stats today, Giorgio Questa has surfaced as someone people are searching for. It appears that some recordings that Giorgio Questa did have turned up. He was a genuis and the CDs are significantly going to be worth buying.

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http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Dynamic/CDS687





http://www.dynamic.it/e_scheda.php?pid=831

Product Code: CDS687/
Title: From Frescobaldi to Brahms
Price: 27.60 €
Performer: Giorgio Questa, organ
Media: 4 CDs
A UNIQUE INSTRUMENT:
The organ that Giorgio Questa used to play is a rather singular instrument: it can be assembled and taken apart in just a few hours and is easily transported. In this sense it is a little like the old "portative" organ, though, despite its apparently small dimensions, its phonic structure is that of a common Italian organ of the sixteenth century.
The instrument is entirely in wood and completely mechanical. Giorgio Questa built it himself, piece by piece, following the same craftsman methods as the old master organ builders. It consists of 491 pipes in pine and chestnut. The keyboard, to which a pedalboard is added has four octaves.
Its stops (Principal in pine, Octave, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Fiffaro/Cornetta, Night Horn in VIII, Wood Flute in XII, Twenty-sixth, Twentyninth) are the ones that are typical of Italian organ art in the classical period. Two small accessories, "passero e passera" imitate birdsong, following ancient organ traditions.
The squirrel tail reminds us of the ancient "fox tail" that overhangs the organist, with the curious addition of a lever inscribed "noli me tangere". A pulley pedal enables free combination of the stops.

BIOGRAPHY
Giorgio Questa was born in Genoa to a family of musicians and was given his first lessons in music by his father. He studied the piano with Nicolay Klepikoff, and dedicated himself to chamber music. At the same time he became interested in vocal polyphony and in the organ-building art.
In 1966, at the "Internationale Zomeracademie voor Organisten" in Haarlem, Holland, he took part in a course held by Maria-Claire Alain on French organ music, and completed the construction of his mechanical organ with wooden pipes, fruit of his fascination with the art of Italian organ building in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Travelling with his instrument, Giorgio Questa played in Italy and in Europe, in recitals and as a soloist with symphonic orchestras (Bucharest, Florence, Ljubljana, Madrid, Mainingen, Turin and Trieste) and with chamber ensembles (the Camerata Accademica of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, I Solisti Veneti, the Mainzer Kammerorchester, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester) and with conductors like Igor Markevitch, Karl Münchingerk, John Pritchard and Sàndor Vegh.
After hearing him perform, Igor Markevitch invited him to play Haydn's Organ Concerto in C major (1756) with the Orquesta de RTV Española at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
He made recordings for Dynamic and held courses on the performance of Italian fifteenth and sixteenth-century organ music (in particular Frescobaldi) at the Conservatories of Fontainebleau (where Nadia Boulanger invited him five years in a row) and of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Città del Castello and at the AMOR in Assisi.
His artistic and musical evolution was determined by his encounters with Nadia Boulanger, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Igor Markevitch, Michael Noble, Sándor Vegh and Narciso Yepes.
Questa played exclusively on organs with mechanical transmission and his performances were based essentially on autograph manuscripts and original prints.
Formerly president of the Commission for the safeguard of artistic organs in Liguria, he died in his native town on 11 June 2010.

"My dear friend Questa... Certainly the organ is a masterpiece, but you are a masterpiece too!... I have just come back from Paris where I spoke about you with Nadia Boulanger... one of the people alive today who knows most about music... an extraordinary personality..."
(from: letters by Igor Markevitch)

"Dear Mr Questa... A miracle!... I did not dare believe that you would come to Fontainebleau this summer... Your forthcoming presence at Fontainebleau lends a very precise character to the whole session... I give great importance to your presence... a real joy, this music favoured by such a pure instrument..."
"[...] You are most eagerly awaited in Paris, I can't wait to talk to you about what links us so deeply: Frescobaldi, performance of his music, your instrument, the way you play, your dreams, in a word music and you, you and music..."
"Dear Giorgio... You have gone but you have not left Fontainebleau, because we hold on to your presence as something precious... Your presence is still alive in the School and in my heart... You have left such a strong memory, made such an impression at Fontainebleau!... We are still talking about you, what you are and what you do have a special place in my memories..."
"Frescobaldi's works fascinate me... It would be a real joy if once again you could bring back to life these works that are all too often left in silence... This truly beautiful sound and the light cast on such a great musician thanks to you... Know that from now on you will always be present at Fontainebleau."
(from: letters by Nadia Boulanger)

Hi!


Regretfully a member especially keen on cinema organs threw the baby out with the bathwater in deleting his membership of the forum for his own reasons and deleting all his hard work in postings.


This was regrettable as whilst he felt that the forum did not pay enough attention to cinema organs, it is intended to be comprehensive and inclusive of all aspects of the instrument and provide a corpus of resources.


Resources gleaned from Google cache of his postings include:


http://www.tccoc.moonfruit.com/ The Cannock Chase Organ Club


Hauptwerk: Hauptwerk may not be so difficult as you may think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4es3HOdzQ  this video surprised me with how easy it is to add midi to a console.


The quality of the Roland Atelier organs has always taken me by surprise, especially the sound quality. I thought I`d share this with the group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKdLFPS5Jbo


Another place to visit if you like fair organs is the Thursford Collection http://www.thursford.com/thursford-collection-main.aspx
Its not too difficult to make a fair organ of your own either. Its tempting.

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Organ concerts / Re: Ayr Town Hall[size=0.85em]« on: June 08, 2011, 05:49:03 PM »[/size]
Damage to the organ is minimal. The weekly Monday recitals have the go ahead as follows
JUNE:-
Monday 13th - Bill Hutcheson
Monday 20th - John Turner
Monday 27th - David Hamilton

JULY:-
Monday 4th -  Jim Cosker
Monday 11th - Ben Fowler
Monday 18th - Bill Hutcheson
Monday 25th - John Turner

AUGUST:-
Monday 1st - Archie Thom
Monday 8th - Gordon Cree
Monday 15th - John Turner
Monday 22nd - Matthew Hynes
Monday 29th - Duncan Sinclair

SEPTEMBER:-
Monday 5th:- David Hamilton
Monday 12th:- Jim Cosker
Monday 19th:- No concert, Hall closed.
Monday 26th:- Gordon Cree with a selection of sports related music

OCTOBER:-
Monday 3rd- Jim Colvin
Monday 10th - Andy Shearer
Monday 17th- Geoffrey Woollatt
Monday 24th - Bill Hutcheson
Monday 31st- Jim Cosker

NOVEMBER :-
Monday 28th- Andrew Shearer - St Andrews Day Celebrations

Doors open at 12:30 pm, Concert starts at 1pm (Ends 2pm). Admission £2



YouTube and other MP3 recordings of organs and organ music or other music of relevance / Re: Yet more publicity- MAINSTREAM[size=0.85em]« on: June 04, 2011, 02:59:23 PM »[/size]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbKdeGmvB9c  For those who havent heard Jean in concert

I hope everyone on the site will vote for her tonight in the finals


Organ tuition / Re: Member seeking organ tuition in the Wolverhampton area[size=0.85em]« on: June 01, 2011, 04:39:58 PM »[/size]http://tccoc.moonfruit.com/#/contact-links/4549895065 Try contacting Steve Tovey who should be able to help out in some way.


There was a particularly interesting post with a YouTube link to a cinema organ at Blackpool with the mics placed in or near the pipe chambers with the remark that the tremulant sounded slow: Luckily one of the links was quoted in the post in reply on:

http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,758.msg3806.html

It is hoped that this member does rejoin the forum in due course, but with a tolerance for the existence of more "conventional" types of organ which he appeared to want to exclude in promotion of Wurlitzer supremacy.



However, seeing that the member deleted some posts entirely and edited others to "blank", leaving the work of others in responses as wasted orphaned posts, his action was not one of kindness nor respect to others. We are told that the member was entroubled on another organ forum and we hope that he may find guidance towards a more positive outlook in which his talents and enthusiasms may flourish.

Best wishes,

Forum Admin

Hi!


Whilst searching for Stephen Bicknell the following essay came to the surface with interesting things to say about minimum specifications:


http://www.stephenbicknell.org/3.6.01.php


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Quote from: Holditch on July 21, 2011, 07:35:21 PM
Whilst I confess to like the "Atheists corner", I do wonder why David included it in this forum?

Hi!


I hope that this question may have been answered perhaps not only above but also by the change of wording of the description of this part of the forum.


Perhaps also, those members of the forum and the wider community who have difficulties such as that to which a member referred above having been in the circumstances which sparked this thread, postings like http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,704.0.html may help to inspire a confidence in the course of life and a certainty that they are not alone, whether by the active help of "g**" or "g**" within friends as to which Tony wrote or even strangers with tourist information through life http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,730.0.html and certainly both Albert Sweitzer "The struggle for the good organ is part of the struggle for truth." and the late Stephen Bicknell "The organ is a continual reminder to us that learning and 'wrought objects' are God-given mysteries and part of the human struggle for Heaven on Earth" harmonised with http://www.organmatters.com/index.php/topic,760.0.html


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Hi!


http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba90/feat1.shtml outlines the case for Blackpool as a World Heritage Site, which would include the contributions of organs to the unrivalled pleasure facilities: however I have not seen the follow-up on the outcome of considerations.


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Quote from: barniclecompton on July 24, 2011, 12:49:02 PM
No point in trying to say this instruments popular on a classical forum, they obviously cant accept fact. Again, how typical.

Please Ross, there is no need for cynicism in this. The organ is popular as is demonstrated well by your posts and of ComptonPlus' contributions above and your numerous posts in the Documentary Researcher thread and to all who listen to The Organist Entertains. Percy Vickery would have preferred the Odeon Leicester Square instrument, however, as he did not like the Quint couplers.


As we understand that you trained at Harrison and Harrisons it would be great to hear from you on other topics in relation to your experience of making and restoring organs from the experience that you had within the craft.


Your nomination for the instrument within the Inspirational Instrument threads heads a discussion which we hope might encompass a wide diversity and the post has been edited to link into this thread.


Are the Blackpool buildings which house these instruments included within an ICOMOS nominated World Heritage Site? If so what other organs form part of World Heritage?


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Forum Admin consulted Colin Pykett about the effect of the tremulant and he responded that the speed of the tremulant is multiplied by the multiple long lengths of reflection paths in the room resulting in significant delays of tremulant phase. He says that his web article referred to in the original post covers it.


We would much like to encourage Colin to rejoin the forum so that questions such as this can be answered directly.


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Quote from: comptonplus on July 24, 2011, 11:53:09 AM
My views as to why it is inspirational to me have been removed. I gave argument and proof for our Barnicle friend, even to going through company archives. I also gave CORRECT information to aqrgue a point, which was also removed. No point typing anything here if that is what happens, Again, I ask, can my account be removed?

The matter had become particularly fractious. We are most grateful to you for your contributions which have appropriately been put in the Blackpool Tower and Empress Ballroom thread, to which the original post now refers with the appropriate link. We hope that the editorial efforts of Moderators and Admins are appreciated in assisting with keeping threads on track, relevant, capable of spawning further exchanges of views and laying down a corpus of learning and experience that will be of inspiration to future enthusiasms.


Best wishes


Forum Admin

To this list one might also add the organ of Crystal Palace in Sydenham London lost in the great fire of the 1930s - did the fire start in the organ - and which accompanied performances of thousands of singers. Indeed it might have been that organ and the capacity of that building which Havergal Brian might have had in mind to inspire the Gothic Symphony. Inspiration indeed.

Quote from: Voix Cynique on July 24, 2011, 01:15:11 AM
How would you class untouched Father Willis chorus reeds? To me, whether called Trumpet, Tromba or Posaune, they all sound quite brassy, with tremendous power, lots of fire, colour, brightness and 'clang' without ever being thin. There's just nothing quite like them - full organ at Ewell Parish Church, complete with a full 16-8-4 reed chorus on two manuals (although the Swell 16ft was quite mild) was utterly thrilling.

I am commenting on this post to remind people that this is the sort of civilised question that helpfully advances organ appreciation and knowledge and hope that members may comment on this post rather than others currently dominating discussions.


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Forum Admin

Hi!

There's clearly a lot of knowledge here but it really all boils down to the meaning of the word
"inspirational"

Perhaps inspirational might not mean the most popular nor the most heard .  . .


Reading through this thread as an outsider might I think that people are currently coloured in this discussion by reason of a degree of duplication in another thread and are therefore asking for "strict proof" in an area where all would probably normally be quite relaxed. I think that people are saying here "Heard that. Been there, Got the T shirt, case not proven over there".

We appear to have lost sight of

   
• Mr Midmer Losh at Atlantic City, quite the most versatile and awe inspiring instrument capable of all areas of repertoire
• The Barton organ in Chicago Hockey stadium played by Jack Moelmann legendarily when he quelled a riot among fans and INSPIRED them to stop
• The instrument at St Maximin played by Monsieur Forcade who INSPIRED Napolean's troops not to destroy it with its dozen or so ranks of trumpets playing the Marseillaise
• First Presbyterian Church in LA where David Goode was organist for a time - the third largest organ in the world and the largest in a church, effectively 7 organs in 1 (or is it 5?)
• Westminster Abbey organ heard by 2 billion viewers of the Royal Wedding recently
• St Pauls Cathedral organ known to all alive when Charles married Diana
• The Crystal Cathedral organ in the USA inspiring many in the church there
• Alexandra Palace organ accompanying so many events there until the fire
• The Compton at Broadcasting House of the BBC which must have been heard by millions http://cdmnet.org/Julian/schemes/misc/brit/bbc.htm
• The Royal Albert Hall organ used even by pop groups
• The Royal Festival Hall organ
• Organs inspiring literature http://cdmnet.org/Julian/literat/litidx.htm
• Organs including 64ft stops http://cdmnet.org/Julian/lists/64.htm
• Organs large enough to contain discordant mixtures http://cdmnet.org/Julian/lists/mut.htm and http://cdmnet.org/Julian/lists/nones.htm - I note the BBC Compton features there
• West Point Chapel USA http://cdmnet.org/Julian/lists/subq.htm
• The 1936 monstrous Nazi Walcker Kongreßhalle Nürnburg http://www.gewalcker.de/gewalcker.de/PDF_public/articlel_walcker.pdf with a console not unreminscent of the Alderney Odeon http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alderney_WW2_occupation_bunker_Odeon.jpg
• The Sauer at Breslau (Warsaw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIBSMgClW7A

If any of the Forum Team has time, I suggest that this thread be renamed "The Blackpool Wurlitzer" for the value of the information it contains and inserted into the Cinema Organs category, and that a new thread be started on the subject of The Most Inspirational Instrument, perhaps with a list such as the one above as a starting point.


The degeneration of this forum into ping pong blinkered arguments does no good for our reputation as a good authority on Organ Matters. I remarked to one member the other day who had made vicious outbursts against numerous people was that his outlook was not kind. The organ is an instrument of harmony and David Pinnegar is not the only person to have observed this: http://cdmnet.org/Julian/esoteric/philos.htm and many of us have the greatest of respect for the late Stephen Bicknell who observed:

Quote"The organ is a continual reminder to us that learning and 'wrought objects' are God-given mysteries and part of the human struggle for Heaven on Earth."

and similarly Albert Schweitzer:

QuoteThe strugle for the good organ is part of the struggle for truth.

Perhaps the most inspirational instruments are of the Thirteen Solar Planes
http://cdmnet.org/Julian/esoteric/solar.htm
and the most inspirational of all will be that instrument that so encompasses perfect harmony that all who hear it fall under its spell of peace.


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Hi!


http://www.casacota.net/teranyina?num=1129320687 gives cent differences of tunings.


In many tunings C is sharp with respect to A so tuning from C=256 would lead to a lower A. Were an instrument then tuned from A and by another from C, A would end up raised . . .


Were we to tune to C=256, which temperament would bring A to 432 or whatever the magic number is that some people like?


These lists are used for Hauptwerk
http://www.meteopallars.com/2x2/tremp.pl


best wisehs


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Evolució del tremp des de l'edat mitja fins als nostres dies

Llista dels tremps més importants i extesos
 
Nota: en la fila "Corr" trobes la desviació en cents respecte de l'escala trempada.

Aquests tremps els pots obtenir programant amb els valors corresponents algun instrument que ho permeti, com el Yamaha  PSR-540
 
Afinació de l'escola de Notre Dame (edat mitja) ("desigual")
 

Nota:

C

C#

D

Eb

E

F

F#

G

G#

A

Bb

B

C

Ratios:

1/1

2187/2048

9/8

32/27

81/64

4/3

729/512

3/2

128/81

27/16

16/9

243/128

2/1

Corr:

0

14

4

-6

8

-2

12

2

-8

6

-4

10

0

 
 
Pitagòric segons Henri Arnaut de Zwolle (ca. 1400-1466), Compositio timbriae, quod est initium organorum et clavichordiorum, ca. 1440
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-9	2	-5	6	-3	-11	1	-6	3	-5	8	0

 
 
Mesotònic de 1/3 de coma, Francisco Salinas, De Musica, Salamanca 1577
 

Nota:	C	C#	Db	D	D#	Eb	E	F	F#	Gb	G	G#	Ab	A	A#	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-37	26	-10	-47	16	-21	5	-32	32	-5	-42	21	-16	-53	10	-26	0

 
 
Mesotònic de 2/7 de coma, Francisco Salinas, De Musica, Salamanca 1577

(utilitzat per llaüts i violes segurament encara en temps posteriors)
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-31	-8	13	-17	4	-25	-4	-34	-12	9	-21	0

 
 
Mesotònic de 1/4 de comma, Pietro Aaron, Thoscanello de la musica, Venècia 1523
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-24	-7	10	-14	3.5	-20	-3	-21	-10	7	-17	0

 
 
Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706) III ("desigual")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-10	-8	-6	-10	-2	-12	-4	-8	-12	-4	-8	0

 
 
Leonhard Euler (1739)  ("desigual amb el setè harmònic enlloc del siB")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-30	4	-26	-14	-2	-10	2	-28	-16	-24	-12	0

 
 
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)  ("wohltemperiert")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-10	-7	-6	-14	-2	-12	2	-8	-16	-4	-12	0

 
 
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)  ("desigual")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-10	4	-6	-14	-2	-10	2	-8	-5	-4	-12	0

 
 
Mesotònic de 1/6 de coma, segle 18 ("rococó")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-13	-4	5	-7	2	-11	-2	-14	-5	4	-9	0

 
 
Mesotònic de 1/9 de coma, ca. 1780-1970
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-4	-1	2	-2	1	-4	-1	-5	-2	1	-3	0

 
 
Valloti-Young 1799 ("desigual")
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	-6	-4	-3	-8	0	-8	-2	-4	-6	0	-8	0

 

 
 
tremp uniforme actual (=mesotònic de 1/12 de coma)
 

Nota:	C	C#	D	Eb	E	F	F#	G	G#	A	Bb	B	C
Corr:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

It appears now a few days later that the printer is still printing!


This forum goes far and as a result I would encourage all who can contribute usefully to join and spread the word . . . that ORGANS ARE GREAT!


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Mention of the CD was made on another thread - a hint of how this instrument is spectacularly "different" - and how the instrument matches the temperament of the player as we have seen on the other thread recently is given by the photo on the cover:

As you can imagine, those fiery trumpets don't disappoint . . .


The CD is well worth buying . . .


http://organanoraks.com/pcndcd1.html


Best wishes


Forum Admin

Hi!


Statistics report that the whole forum is being printed by a guest visiting the forum in Japan. Is the Organ having an influence in Japan?


It would be great to welcome guests from Japan to join the forum and contribute to discussions, asking questions, and we will be as helpful and informative as we can be . . .


Best wishes


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