Wednesday, April 28
Festive Melodies of the Imaginary Organs
Search the web, and you'll find just about everything. Witness this near-Borgesian compendium of stoplists for pipe organs that were never built. In particular, the page on the (unconstructed) organs of Edward Lutyens' (unbuilt) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is worth checking out, if only to have a look at the architect's famous model of the unbegun church. There's also a more theoretical look at what organs might have gone into an earlier Gothic design for Westminster Cathedral--before it was overtaken by the magisterial if bizarre "streaky bacon and pea soup-colored caricature of an electric light station" that stands there today, as Baron Corvo put it. Even more whimsical is this set of statistics for an organ based on a painting of St. Jerome in his study! I can't say any of these reams of numbers makes any sense to a layman such as myself, but the idea is not without charm.
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