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About book 1:  381 pages, table of contents, bibliography, index and three appendices!

The famous organ that never was!
Organ historians have written long (and wrong) about the famous Seville Cathedral organ designed and built in 1673 by Portuguese builder Antonio Pedro Faleiro. It never existed! At least not in Seville Cathedral. Read Appendix A.

A two-manual organ with only one manual?
Easy, if you're a Spanish baroque organ builder. From the late 1600s on, pipe organs in Spain were built with divided stops, so that the left hand could play in one stop and the right hand in another! Presto! Two manuals on one manual.

Stop Stop Chaos!
Appendix B lists all stops in Seville (and applicable to all Spain), unraveling some of the mystery resulting from two different stops with the same name, and from flute stops being confused with harmonic stops.

Spanish reeds: a musical firing squad!
Jutting out from the case in different lengths and bores are the famous en chamada reeds. Looked at from below they seem to describe a W or an M or a wide U. Also their sound is unlike any other pipe organ reed in the world.

About book 2: 235 pages, table of contents, bibliography, index and special index of cities where the organs are located, and index of the organs arranged by number of stops.

Who was Abraham Abrahamsson Hülphers?
A music lover, a scholar and a businessman, the head of a mining company in Sweden. Why did he write about Swedish pipe organs? Obsession? Compulsion? With the help of the Swedish national church, he "counted" all the pipe organs in Sweden.At the expense of 6,000 daler he published the book himself.

Was he hip to the contemporary music scene?
Ever hear of Elvis? Hülphers was up-to-date on everybody in music from J.S. Bach down. He was also hip to the organ-building scene and rejoiced when the government required licensing of builders. (The field had been invaded by a spate of carpenters who built good houses and lousy organs.)

Is there such a thing as footnote mania?
Yes, and Hülphers suffered from it. But some of the best reading is in the footnotes, so don't skip any. They provide a complete historic background to everything he writes about.

Music in the Old Testament?
His Part II is nothing but music in the Old Testament. Eye-opening as well as mind-boggling reading. Had it been written today, it would be an extraordinary thesis for a doctorate, and he would be considered an "authority."

These excellent reference works on organ history are comb bound to lie flat.

The price of the Spanish organ book is $55 US and of the Swedish $45 US.

These prices include 1st class postage to any of the fifty states in the US.

If you are ordering from outside the US or Canada, please include $15.00 US for shipping. Any amount not actually used for shipping expense will be returned to you with your book.

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