Pipe Organs

I am in the middle of a snow storm, and may have my concert cancelled tonight, but meanwhile, I looked through my library of photos to see what pipe organs I've captured, and found quite a few.
I post some of them, hoping that seeing them will give you pleasure

A tiny church in Passau, very plain in comparison to most churches in Germany.

One of those small organs in the sanctuary used for smaller masses rather than the main organ up in the balcony.

The great Marcel Dupre playing the Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia,
the organ with the most playable pipes in the world (Atlantic City actually has more pipes, but many need to be repaired).

The organ in Melk Abbey, one of the greatest and most ornate of Baroque churches.

Perhaps the grandest expression of a organ case, the main organ at Passau
(which was until just recently, the largest church organ in the world)
I heard a noon-day recital by a young American organist, and the church was fille,
probably close to a 1000 people at an organ concert!.

Just part of the collection of organs at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna.

I've lost the identity of this one.   It is in Germany or Austria.
Anyone?

The organ case at Wanamaker's, Philadelphia.

And on of the organist regularly performing at Wanamaker's.

The organ at St. Phillips cathedral of Atlanta, the last Aeolian-Skinner I helped install with Dad, Don, and Bruce

Another chancel organ for smaller services.

The organ at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Sidney Mines, Nova Scotia
where my grandfather, A. D. Wauchope I was pastor.

The "State Trumpet" at St. John the Devine, NYC, voiced at 100inches of wind pressure, and probably the loudest musical instrument in the world.  The nave of the church is 600 feet long (the longest gothic nave in the world), and the reverberation lasts 9 seconds.
This photo is from 1960 when Dad, Don and I took a tour of Philadelphia, Washington, New York and Boston.
Alec Wyton was the organist.



The St. Sulpice organ, Paris. 
The picture means so much to me.  It was the first photo I took on my first trip to Paris.  I walked into the cathedral, turned around, and was struck dumb upon seeing this organ which was featured so prominently on all the covers of the Mercury "Living Presence" recordings by Marcel Dupre, of which my dad had the entire collection.  How I remember those recordings, and those really nasty (in a good way) French Bombards.

I believe this is the organ in St. Charles Church in Vienna

And I believe this is St. Eustache.

Two days in Provincetown

For her birthday, I took Susan out to Provincetown for two nights, staying at the Benchmark Inn, truly one of the nicest experiences of any B&B we have ever enjoyed.  It was quite cold, but mostly sunny, the heavy rains not arriving until we were leaving.  Here are some photos from the trip.

From the week before, Green Harbor, Marshfield

Early AM, looking from the piers to the library.

The sunrise light on the windows of the town.  The Provincetown
monument is the tallest granite structure in America.

Race Point

Susan at the Library

One-half replica of a Grand Banks Schooner
constructed inside the library!

Susan at lunch at
Fanizzi's, delicious.

Bumping in to old friends, the Tinneys and the Bridges, from church.

The Provincetown Artists Association Museum

One of the may galleries on Merchant Street

The Mews restaurant. Slow-cooked Lamb Shank!

From the deck at the Benchmark Inn, late at night.

Enormous flock of White -winged Scoters.

Susan doing her favorite thing.

6th. walk in 7 days.

I exercised every day (one day was on a treadmill, since it was 4 degrees outside), and feel very good about it.  Here are some shots from yesterday's walk in Pratt Farm.

My walk started about 3:00 PM, and already the shadows are long.

This is Stony Brook Pond, one of two in the area.

A bit of color on the otherwise very drab forest floor.

The path around the lake.

A bit of marble thrusting out of the forest floor.  Shining Rock is a large mountain viewed from the Blue Ridge Parkway,
near Brevard, N.C. where I lived through HS and 2 years of college.  The entire top of the mountain is covered by outcorps of pink quartz, and as the sun sets, it appears that the mountain top is on fire.

One ray of dying light