Excerpt from Musical Canada, Vol. 2: A Monthly Review and Magazine; May, 1907, to April, 1908 There can be no denying of the fact that many large, recently constructed organs have been so whittled down in their voicing, in a scramble for refined effects, that the grandeur of tone and nobility and dignity of the King of Instru ments appear to be departing. Guil mant summed up his impressions of most new American organs as instruments which lacked in depth, power and virility of tone. Too much attention, he felt, was being paid to the purely mechanical side of the art and to the acquirement of delicacy of tone in the too liberal number of fancy stops, with which most American organs were equipped. The splendid tones heard in the best English, German and French organs, particularly in the diapasons and foundation stops generally, were being sacrificed for the many ear-tickling play things which seemed so popular on this side of the Atlantic. As things now stand many excellent specifications, on paper, were being turned out by some of our manufacturers which, in effect, were little better than glorified reed organs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.