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ISSN: 0041-0330. 2 Volume 38, Number 2, 1994 COVER: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, and vintage post card views: the aerial view is postmarked 1949; the interior view is ca. 1915. The historyof Notre-Dame's organs and the rebuild of the present one, THE TRACI<ER as well as other articles in this issue, are adapted and reprinted from JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIElY The Sydney Organ Journal, with thanks to our Australian member Ralph W. Lane, editor and president of the Organ Society of Sydney. Corrections to Vierne's "Pieces de fantaisie" . 11 Organ Society of Sydney, of which he is President; graciously Olivier Latry Corrects the Score in Preparation for a Recording permits OHS' reprint of the French articles in this issue, updates Evolution of the Grand Orgue, Notre-Dame de Paris 15 them, and further permits modifications by The Tracker's Editorial Review Board. Pastor de Lasala & Ralph Lane Describe Innovations & History Earlier, M. Latry mentioned that a telephone call to the Notre Registration Practice in France After 1920 28 Dame organ would allow him to set his registrations from the Robert Wagner Finds Vierne a Pivotal Figure in Change telephone keypad. He said he could even play the organ fromhome Reviews . 6 if he connected a keyboard to the telephone. (Could a recital played The Organ in Western Culture: 750-1250, a Book by Peter Wil simultaneously in Paris and New York be far behind? Remember, liams, Reviewed by John Ogasapian you read it in The Tracker, first!) The organ will record his im The Life & Work of John Snetzler, a Book by Alan Barnes & Mar provisations on a sequencer and then play them back to him as if tin Renshaw, Reviewed by John L. Speller by an old-fashioned roll player, and it will convert his playing to Complete Organ Works of Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, a CD musical notation on paper, if requested. Three monitor screens played by Francis Jackson, Reviewed by Mark Buxton adorn the new console: two are located in the stop jambs and Notes &. Queries 5 display the condition of registration, keyboard assignments, Pedal divide compasses, sostenuto arrangements, etc. A third, atop the Obituaries . 6 console, monitors activities in the chancel, seemingly blocks away, Organ Update . 10