Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 2009 THE TRACKER JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY A MONUMENT CONCEIVED AS A TRIBUTE TO THE IDEALS OF CLEVELAND, BUILDED BY HER CITIZENS AND DEDICATED TO SOCIAL PROGRESS, INDUSTRIAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND CIVIC INTEREST A MONUMENT CONCEIVED AS A TRIBUTE TO THE IDEALS OF CLEVELAND, BUILDED BY HER CITIZENS AND DEDICATED TO SOCIAL PROGRESS, INDUSTRIAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND CIVIC INTEREST SAVING THIS ORGAN STARTS WITH YOU!!! In preparation for the OHS 2009 Cleveland Convention, an exploratory team of Joseph Dzeda, Joseph McCabe and Nicholas Thompson-Allen surveyed Ernest Skinner’s opus 328. Located in Cleveland’s massive Public Auditorium & Convention Center, the five-manual organ is not only the largest instrument Skinner built, but also one of the last organs largely untouched by rebuilds, alteration or even restoration. Subject to much media attention over the past few weeks, the building and organ face an uncertain future. Together we can save this organ and help secure it’s future. Please take a few moments today to send a note to Cleveland city officials thanking them for their continuing preservation of this magnificent Skinner pipe organ and its architecturally significent home. Your letter will not go unnoticed. Address it to: Commissioner James Glending Cleveland Convention Center 500 Lakeside Avenue East Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1019 T H E O R G A N H IS to R I C A L So CIE T Y Post Office Box 26811, Richmond, Virginia 23261 • 804-353-9226 • FAX: 804-353-9266 E-MAIL: mail@organsociety .org • WEB: www .organsociety .org • ONLINE CATALOG: www .ohscatalog .org THE NATIONAL COUNCIL CONVENTIONS OFFICERS AND COUNCILORS Term Expires Cleveland, July 5–10, 2009 Pittsburgh, June 21–25, 2010 Laurence Libin* . president 2009 Joseph McCabe J .R . Daniels Jim Stark 126 Darlington Ave ., Ramsey, NJ 07446 201-327-8426 lelibin@optonline .net jmmccabe1@netzero .com jr@jrdaniels .org starkj2@aol .com Joseph M . McCabe* . vice president 2009 Washington, D C. ., June 27–July 1, 2011 1612 Blossom Park Ave ., Lakewood, OH 44107 716-881-1428 jmmccabe1@netzero .com Carl Schwartz ruxtoncar@aol .com Stephen J . Schnurr Jr *. .secretary 2011 Saint Paul Church, Box 1475, Valparaiso, IN 46384 219-531-0922 stephen schnurr@valpo. edu. James M . Stark (ex officio) . treasurer appointed AMERICAN ORGAN ARCHIVES 6408 Kentucky Ave ., Pittsburgh, PA 15206 412-363-0462 starkj2@aol .com At TALBOtt LIBRARY Carol Britt . councilor for archives 2009 Westminster Choir College, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540 250 Bayou Vista Dr ., Thibodaux, LA 70301 985-447-6142 carol .britt@nicholls .edu Stephen L . Pinel . .Archivist Allen Kinzey . councilor for conventions 2011 629 Edison Dr ., East Windsor, NJ 08520-5205 609-448-8427 slpinel@verizon .net 5831 E . 9th St ., Tucson, AZ 85711 520-571-1691 abkinzey@cox .net James H . 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That irksome ad 5 by Laurence Libin brought to mind some deceptive arrays of fancy old leather spines, not even whole books, I’ve seen dis- SOME SAN FRANCISCO played in houses whose pretentious owners couldn’t ORGANS BEFORE 1906 care less about reading . Maybe there’s an analogy Part