THEVolume 44, Number 2, 2000 TRACKER JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Members may join any number of chapters. Chapters, Newsletter, Editor, Membership Founding Date & Annual Dues Inquiries Boston Organ Club 1965, '76 OHS Charter Central New York, The Coupler, Phil Williams 1976 Cullie Mowers, $5 Box F Remsen, NY 13438 Chicago Midwest, The Stopt Diapason, Julie Stephens 1980 Fred Beal [email protected] 10 South Catherine La Grange, IL 60525 & [email protected] Robert Voves, $15 Eastern Iowa, 1982 Newsletter, August Knoll Dennis Ungs, $7.50 Box 486 The Organ Historical Society Wheatland, IA 52777 Florida, 1998 The Rackboard Post Office Box 26811, Richmond, Virginia 23261 www.ohs-florida.org Henry Vollenweider, $8 (804)353-9226 FAX (804)353-9266 newsletter@ohs- florida.org e-mail: [email protected] web: WWW. ORGANSOCIETY.ORG Greater New York online catalog: WWW.OHSCATALOG.ORG City, 1969 Greater St. Louis, The Cypher, Eliza- John D. 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Pinel .....................................Archivist 2004 Buffalo, New York ........................ToBeAnnounced 629 Edison Dr., East Windsor, NJ 08520 (609) 448-8427 [email protected] 2 Volume 44, Number 2, 2000 The Organs of Costa Rica ..............16 Jason Alden Produces the First Survey of Extant Organs THE TRACKER Including Builders Cavaillé-Coll, Schyven, Walcker, & more JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Letters ........................6 Reviews .......................7 less Kimball strings and solo stops, the Denver organ is a su- Obituaries ......................7 perb instrument and a historical beacon — ideally suited to Minutes .......................11 OHS citation. Nominations for National Office ..........14 Several times Cathedral authorities have sought proposals to change the instrument. The first, from Schudi of Texas, was Donors .......................37 abandoned due to that firm’s premature dissolution. A second from Möller came to naught for similar reasons. Therefore it OPINION Jonathan Ambrosino has been disturbing to learn that this magnificent organ, one that has ably led choirs, congregations and worship in this building for the last 63 years, is still somehow deemed defi- Three Cited Organs in Peril: cient — and, what’s more, that its perceived shortcomings Do They Question OHS Citations? should outweigh the larger importance of its historical signifi- PHOTOS BY WILLIAM T. VAN PELT VERY SO OFTEN, the President of the Organ Historical Society receives a sheaf of blank citations from the EOrgan Citations Committee. The chair has already signed the citations, and now they come to the President for endorsement, to be forwarded to the calligrapher for titling of the names and places, registration and framing. In the hands of the chair or her designated agent, the citations are presented to the owners of the chosen organs, often but not always at the Society’s national convention. The last few times these parcels