KEEPING THE ORGAN COOL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1523, 7 November 1873, Page 8

KEEPING THE ORGAN COOL.

An amusing story comes from a village midway between Bradford and Halifax, on the high range of hills whicli divide the two towns. The church organ being out of repair, a professional organ builder from Leeds was called in to see what the instrument required.. The Leeds gentler man was surprised to find that the organ was being ruined by damp, the woodwork was decaying, and the leather of the bellows was rotten from moisture. Close to the instrument was the heating apparatus of the church, and it was incomprehensible how the organ cpuld have suffered so severely from damp. The sexton, who has charge of the church, wan called to account, and he 'excused himself with the statement that the man who manages and plays upon the or.gan had erected a barricade between the heating apparatus and the instrument, with the view of keeping the organ cool. Not only had he done this, In.t h;jhad poured, wafpr >-5 to the bellows, and otherwise troubled .huusf'u' to keep the instrument cool, and moist, the result being deterioration and decay. - This remarkable instance of ingenuity in keeping an organ cool has caused no small amount of fun in the village and the neighborhood, at the expense of the sapient individual who tried this experiment*