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  1. Jul-22-2009, 01:22 #1
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    Playing my College's organ for the first time

    Wow, I've been working for a Girls' College since April 20 and the College chapel has a rather wonderful two manual pipe organ. So, I played it for the first time yesterday to one of my colleagues who really didn't believe him when I told him I could play. It was originally in a congregational church in Petersham (inner western suburb of Sydney) before being sold to the College. I will take some photos of the Chapel (with its lovely stained glass windows) and the organ and post here. It's got a wonderful range of stops for such a modest little beastie.

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    I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
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    PLC Chapel, organ and window.

    Here are the photos - had a senior moment not sure why this moved into a new thread!
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    These are actually quite nice photos. Must have been a real treat for you to try out this instrument. Can we count on some sound samples, or would it be too much to ask?
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    Beautiful stained glass windows and looks like the organ is great too,, maybe you can sent us a sample of the sound....hint hint.....
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    the photos of the stops aren't very clear I'm afraid - not sure how to solve that without breaking the stop list into two ore more sections ... I'll ponder that, however. It's got a wonderful (and quite noisy) trumpet on the Swell and a beautiful Oboe on the Great. That's it for reeds - however - coupling the trumpet down to the Great works wonders. The pedal division, whilst small (two 16 foot stops and two 8 foot stops) is amazing. Two of each of the sizes are soft and the other two quite powerful. In fact the louder of the 16 foot pedal stops is particularly reverberant and effective - not sure how to record that but I'll try and figure something out. I don't have the proper equipment.
    I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
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    Sounds like quite a gem. That's the wonderful thing about being an organist - every instrument has its own "personality".
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