ORGANS AND "ORGANS"
Sir,-Since the Americans took over 1ZM there have not been so many recordings of organ music relayed locally. Is the organ so very unpopular? Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra are a very fine team, but they cannot compete with the grand organ in rendering the works of Bach, etc. Further, is it not odd that two sueh dissimilar instruments as the organ and its off-shoot, the Wurlitzer or cinema organ, should be known both by the same name? Where the _ performer’s name is mentioned, there is no confusion, but where the programme indicates, for instance, "organ selections," people who like music are apt to be disappointed. (The above sentence is purposely ambiguous, that I may give offence to none). Because the Church or Grand Organ was first in the field, I suggest that it retain the title of "organ," and that an alternative name for the Wurlitzer be
announced.
R. S.
JARDIN
(Takapuna).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 279, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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156ORGANS AND "ORGANS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 279, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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