Old Organs of Princeton: Being an Historical Chronology and Description of All the Known Pipe Organs Installed in the Town of Princeton, New Jersey Fr

by Stephen L. Pinel

Organs come in an astonishing variety of shapes and sizes, and the singularity of each individual instrument is far more apparent than it is with other musical instruments. Organs can be large or small, voiced gently or loudly, intimate or majestic, mechanical or electric, plain or decorated and so on. Throughout the centuries, the organ has been a source of inspiration, not only to exalted minds like those of Johann Sebastian Bach and Albert Schweitzer, but to the members of the local church. Honore de Balzac put it succinctly when he wrote, “The Organ is surely some sort of pedestal on which the soul poises for a flight into space…”

146 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989