Since my first post about the Ruffatti in Florida went so well, I figure I might as well ask my second question about the Ruffatti in Wayne, PA. Does anybody know how the fire started that burned the church down? They had an older Ruffatti that I worked on quite a number of times (I even got to unscrew one of the 32' Bombarde pipes once! :O They were wood, and "enchamade"! :D They were laying on the floor of the great! :)Mitered once,to bend around - the open end of the pipe spoke directly into the church! :D I really didn't like that 32' Bombarde, because it wasn't powerful enough. The new one is very powerful, metal, and only half length, and mitered like a pretzel! :O But it sounds GREAT! :D I would also like to get the specifications for both organs.
This all happened WAY before computers, about 20 years ago, and I can't find out anything about this on the net. Thereare references to it in thebiography of Virgil Fox["Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist"]. I hope you can be of more help.
The organs are not that great, and definitely NOT worth hearing. The room they are in is EXTREMELY dry, and they sound horrible! There is no reverb at all, in either church (the church had to be rebulit from the ground up. It was reduced to ashes! :O) (Organ"S" and Churche"S" refer to the church that burned down and the organ that burned down, and the new ones, that stand in the same place. The church is so acoustically dry that they were CRAZY to put a pipe organ in there! Only a good electronic organ with *LOTS* of REVERB would work at all. But it is a wealthy area, and I guess they wanted the status of having a pipe organ.
So... I want the specifications on both organs, and does anybody know how the fire started that burned the church and the Ruffatti to the ground?
Many thanks! ~Cindy! :)
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