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The Eighteenth-Century Organ: A Parting of the Ways
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1965
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When a member of the Association spoke to you last year on the French horn he was able to explain his points on his own instrument; but alas I cannot bring Haarlem, Weingarten or Freiberg here. It would also be unfair to enter too much into the exclusive language of organ-players, for I am reminded of Burney's remarks when writing up (as organists say) the instrument at Haarlem:
as technical terms will be unavoidable in this description, I advise my miscellaneous readers to pass it over, for it can interest none but organ-players, or persons not wholly unacquainted with the construction of that instrument.
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