Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.50.0212190110550.15064-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Today's News
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:11:05 -0500 (EST)
Today's News ... the Daniel F. Beatty, Washington, N.J., U.S.A. Golden Tongue 61-key 14-stop pump organ, gold labeling on black above the keyboard, was found between 3rd and 4th Avenue on a Dean Street sidewalk, trimmings and back removed and leaning against the main framework, around 4:30 the afternoon of Thursday, December 19th, 2002, and brought to the corner of Dean Street and 5th Avenue, at 432, around 5:40 in the evening of the same day, by Azure Carter, Alan Sondheim, and Mark Esper, where Gary Wiebke was discovered coming into the same establishment, and his help solicited, to the effect that Azure Carter carried the properly-cut Victorian trimmings to the third floor, while Gary Wiebke and Mark Esper carried the 125-kilo instrument, dating from late 1878 or early 1879, judging by the serial number, up two flights of stairs and into Azure Carter's and Alan Sondheim's apartment, while Azure Carter and Alan Sondheim cleared a passage in order to eventually move and re-assemble the walnut, ivory- and ebony-keyed small parlor organ, whose bellows and suction box were still intact, by replacing the trimmings and reattaching the back, removing, however, the outdated electric motor, preferring instead to utilize the original and still-functioning pedals to good effect, as the marvelous sonority of Forte, Coupled, Viola, and Sub-Bass floated over their space, the instrument clearly played properly and for the first time in a century ... ===